Not all heroes wear capes

Every day in our work, we see the true impact of compassion and how great things can be accomplished when we come together around the most vulnerable members of our community.

From our team at Children’s Hospital Foundation, we hope you are taking care of yourselves, your team members, and your loved ones.

• To our partners working long hours in retail spaces ensuring that customers have access to the food and supplies they need, we thank you.
• To our partners working in pharmacies ensuring that through this epidemic any ill person continues to have access to proper medications and care supplies, we thank you.
• To our partners working across the food industry ensuring that guests may continue to have access to quality food, we thank you.
• To our teams at Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU and VCU Health, thank you for continuing to care for and serve this community just as you have always done. Because of your strength and expertise, we know the most capable hands are at the front line of this crisis.

As our country navigates the COVID-19 crisis, our partners continue their generous outreach helping to serve our community and the thousands of health care providers who are focused on the health and well-being of every person who walks through their door.

• Thank you to our friends at Jersey Mike’s who, although their dining rooms are closed, continue offering take-out and delivery services with the invitation to make a donation to Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU upon check-out.
• Thank you to our friends at Wawa for providing complimentary coffee for health care providers.
• Thank you to our friends at Love’s Travel Stops for providing complimentary coffee for health care providers.
• Thank you to our friends at Panda Express for offering affordable family options and for continuing to invite guests, through take-out and delivery services, to make a donation to Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU.
• Thank you to our friends at Speedway who remain open so that essential employees have access to gasoline as they make the brave commute each day, and for inviting their customers to make a donation to Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU.

We are incredibly proud to partner with these true community heroes. For each of you, we are ever-so-grateful. Thank you for all you’ve done and continue to do for this community.