The Elyse Madison Charity Fund was founded in 2018 in order to alleviate the challenges of women and families facing pregnancy complications, a premature birth of a child and the loss of an infant.

 

Our Mission

We aim to provide emotional and financial support to families that have a mother on bedrest due to pregnancy complications, as well as families who have an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit, or who are mourning the loss of their baby.

“Sometimes the things we cannot change, end up changing us…”

-Anonymous

Hospital Sofia Feldman, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.

Photo: Christiano Santiago

our goals

  • We want to provide mothers on bedrest with a weekly program in which they can receive peer support through art therapy.

  • We want to provide a grant program in which families can apply for and receive financial assistance.

  • We want to help families receive financial education so they can learn to save and have an emergency fund available to them in the future.

  • We want to provide gift cards for groceries and gas to families in need.

  • We want to have social workers available to provide emotional support to families.

  • We want to help grieving families heal by connecting them to local resources as well as through a semi-annual grieving mothers’ retreats.

  • We want to provide care packages, hygiene kits and Sympathy baskets to families.

  • We want to serve as advocates for women.

  • We want to support families in countries without the proper resources.