Heart & Hope Project brings comfort to hospitalized children through thoughtfully assembled care kits, encouragement, and youth-led service.
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Child-centered kits with comfort items, activities, small essentials, and messages of encouragement for hospitalized kids.
Help stock a kit →Volunteers create uplifting cards for children. Organizations can now join as Cover Art Partners and make card covers together.
Create cards →Volunteer, start a chapter, join an event, or bring your school/nonprofit into a collaborative service project.
Explore ways to help →Hospital experiences are shaped by more than a room, a test, or a diagnosis. Beyond the Diagnosis is Heart & Hope’s awareness initiative for health conditions that can affect young people and their families. We turn complicated information into approachable, thoughtful resources that encourage understanding and empathy.
Our awareness pages are educational resources and are not a substitute for medical advice or care from a qualified healthcare professional.
Research and write health-awareness articles, earn verified volunteer hours for accepted work, and receive a public byline plus writer credit on the Heart & Hope website.
Help place a comforting stuffed animal into a child’s Heart & Hope comfort kit and follow the campaign’s progress.
See Sponsor a Bear →Meet the student leaders and volunteers building Heart & Hope Project and coordinating programs, outreach, events, and service.
Meet the team →
Volunteers are coming together at the Build-A-Bear Workshop inside The Gardens Mall to build 25 bears for our first comfort-kit deliveries.
We are a student-founded project serving children and families through comfort kits, encouragement, and community partnerships. Heart & Hope Project is fiscally sponsored by The Hack Foundation (d.b.a. Hack Club), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
Join events, create encouragement cards, and track your service in the Volunteer Hub.
Volunteer with us →Schools, clubs, nonprofits, and youth organizations can organize cover-art creation for Heart & Hope cards.
Become a Cover Art Partner →Donate funds or help us stock the items that go into each comfort kit.
Ways to give →Chapters give local student leaders the tools to organize service projects, recruit volunteers, fundraise through Heart & Hope, and report their impact back to HQ.
Every approved chapter receives a Chapter Hub, chapter-specific volunteer signup and donation routing, and direct HQ oversight.