Our Mission of Charity & Hope
The mission of the Shadow Buddies Foundation is to provide emotional support through education regarding illness, disability, or medical treatments. The foundation accomplishes this mainly through unique programs designed to enhance the lives of children and adults and increase compassion and understanding of others differences. In pursuit of that mission, the foundation will continually raise funds, develop new programs, and build relationships between organizations with complementary goals.
A Kids Charity Organization Dedicated to Illumination, Compassion, and Emotional Support
The Shadow Buddies Foundation is a children's charity dedicated to providing support and knowledge to children with severe illnesses and disabilities. The foundation accomplishes this through unique programs designed to enhance the lives of children and adults by fostering compassion and awareness of differences with our line of 36 condition-specific “Shadow Buddy” dolls. Crafted from muslin and carefully researched to represent a child’s medical or emotional condition, Shadow Buddies offer seriously ill or medically challenged children the companionship of a friend “just like me."
How Our Shadow Buddy Dolls Raise Awareness and Support Medically Challenged Children and their Families
Our Mission: Providing Hope, Support, Love, and a Companion to Kids in Need
Our charity accomplishes our mission primarily through the creation of Shadow Buddy dolls that we deliver to hospitalized children here in Kansas City and around the world. We currently deliver these special Buddies in all 50 states and 20 different countries. Each doll is carefully designed with elements that represent a childhood disease or medical condition. Our Buddies help children understand their diagnosis and treatment, bringing comfort through hands-on education and a friend, “just like me”. A Shadow Buddy doll brings comfort and education, providing a useful teaching tool for doctors and nurses as they care for children undergoing treatment for their illnesses or medical condition.
How Sponsors Can Join Our Mission
Do you live in the greater Kansas City area? Are you interested in sponsoring a charity foundation with goals you share? You can help us raise money to bring joy, inspiration, comfort, and the gift of kindness to children with developmental disabilities, childhood illnesses, or other medical conditions. Sponsors can donate money to help raise funds to support our mission. You can also participate in one of our charity fundraiser events. We also provide volunteer opportunities to those who wish for a more hands-on way to support our charity foundation. Volunteering at an event or at our headquarters based in Lenexa, Kansas, we have many opportunities to dress and package the Buddies to be shipped to pediatric patients and facilities around the world.
Donations support the creation and distribution of our Shadow Buddy dolls. Local non-profits like the Shadow Buddies Foundation help Kansas City children in our community. Reach out to learn more about our organization, charity events, or ways you can get involved to make a difference in the life of a child in need.
Support our charity by calling The Shadow Buddies Foundation today at 913-642-4646 or go to our donate button to make a monetary contribution today.
“It makes me happy to know that children who are going through a frightening experience are not alone”. Miles Postlethwait, Co-founder Shadow Buddies Foundation.