The editor of this book (Dr. Rotbart), as well as his literary agent (Lisa Leshne, the Leshne Agency) and contracts manager (Deirdre Smerillo, Smerillo Associates) are taking no income from this project. Rather, 100 percent of net proceeds from advances and royalties resulting from the sales of this book will be divided among charities designated by each of the contributing essayists and, in some cases, by their patients. Those charities are listed below in hopes readers might also consider supporting these worthy causes.
Alliance for Children
Alyn Children’s Hospital
American Cancer Society
American Heart Association
American Lung Association of the Northeast
Arapahoe Philharmonic Orchestra
Arkansas Children’s Hospital Foundation
Autism Speaks
Bay Area Cancer Connections
Big Brothers, Big Sisters
Catholic Relief Services
Children’s Hospital Colorado Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders
Children’s Hospital Colorado Child Health Clinic
Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation
Children’s Hospital Colorado Special Care Clinic
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Alumni Organization
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Hematology Research
Christ Episcopal Church, Charlottesville, VA
Colorado I Have a Dream Foundation
Colorado Humane Society
CURE Childhood Cancer
DAT Minyan
Denver Dumb Friends League
Department of Pediatrics, Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York
Donate Life Northwest
Fast for Feast
Footwork, the International Podoconiosis Initiative
Joni and Friends
Head and Neck Cancer Strategic Initiative Fund, Ohio State University
The Health Wagon
Janet Weis Children’s Hospital Pediatric Rural Trauma Initiative
Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation
Jewish Federation of Philadelphia
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Kawasaki Disease Foundation
Kempe Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect
The Kempe Foundation
Lazarus Family Fund at the AMA Foundation
LDS Philanthropies
Living Room Ministries International, Kimbilio Hospice
Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital
Lucille Packard Children’s Hospital OB Family Fund
March of Dimes Foundation
Medical College of Wisconsin, CNS Infections Fund
National Brain Tumor Society
National Medical Fellowships
National Multiple Sclerosis Society
Natural Areas Conservancy, New York, NY
Operation Breakthrough
Reach Out and Read Colorado
Roundup River Ranch: A SeriousFun Children’s Network Camp
Saint Rock Haiti Foundation
Samfund, Boston
Save a Child’s Heart Foundation
Save the Children
Sensory Processing Disorder Foundation
S.L.E. Lupus Foundation/Lupus Research Institute
Society for Vascular Surgery Foundation
Special Fund of Rabbi Joshua Skoff at Park Synagogue, Pepper Pike, OH
Special Fund of Rabbi Wesley Gardenswartz at Temple Emanuel, Newton, MA
Surgical Infection Society Foundation for Education and Research
Tygerberg Children’s Hospital Trust
University at Buffalo, School of Management
University at Buffalo, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
Washington University School of Medicine Dr. Frank O. Richards Medical Student Scholarship Prize
Wounded Warrior Project