Many thanks to our friends at Central Market for their generous $150,000 donation to Scottish Rite for Children. They also donated over 480 gourmet goodies to our wonderful staff. We are grateful for your continued support!
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Treasure Street is the signature event of Scottish Rite for Children. Support helps the organization carry forward its legacy of providing premier health care to children, regardless of the family’s ability to pay.
Treasure Street has been reinvented for 2020, moving online for a virtual celebration featuring a performance by Emerald City. Join us on Thursday, September 24.
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Additional Treasure Street listings:
Art&Seek
Dallas Doing Good
Visit Dallas
DFW Child
Since 1981 Scottish Rite for Children has hosted the annual Amputee Ski Trip. Fourteen teenage patients, as well as medical staff and hospital chaperones, spend a week at the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) in Winter Park, Colo. Lives are transformed while leaving a lifelong impact on all who attend.
Patients from around the country have the opportunity to gain independence, while being surrounded by others with similar conditions. “It can be really hard to connect with people and you start to think that you can’t ever find anyone that will understand you,” says a previous attendee. “But here, everyone understands you.”
NBC DFW covered the sendoff ceremony at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport. Watch the full story here.
Additional Ski Trip Sendoff segments:
CBS 11 Evening News
FOX 4 Good Day.
The hospital hosted the University of Memphis football team for the annual visit from one of the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic teams.
Players and coaches took an afternoon away from the football field to spread smiles by playing games with patients and friends. Tigers players put down the footballs and picked up some crayons for a fun filled afternoon.
NBC affiliate in Memphis, TN highlighted the fun event. Watch the full story here.
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children was recently transformed into a scene from “Candyland”.
The annual Cookies and Castles, organized by the Dallas Alumnae Chapter of Delta Delta Delta hosted hundreds of families and boasted 6,000 pounds of candy. Kids spent the day decorating gingerbread houses and gingerbread men for a good cause. Now in its 12th year, the event has raised more than $500,000 for the hospital’s prosthetic department.
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For decades, the Dallas Cowboys football team has made annual holiday visits to local children’s hospitals. This week, players and team cheerleaders posed for photographs and signed autographs at four Dallas area hospitals, including Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children.
“The impact that we can make on the platform we have, I think, is amazing,” Vander Esch said. “We can go out and form relationships with people in the community and see the instant impact and smile that it puts on their face, especially the kids and the things that they’re dealing with, the struggles in their lives. It’s a special thing to get out and do stuff like that, and I know every single one of the guys on the team would say the exact same thing.”
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