Millions of children and their families turn to The Woodmark Group’s 26 prominent children’s-hospital members each year for care, treatment and cures. Health care services, research and access are made possible by the support of generous donors in the United States, Canada and places around the world. Indeed, donor philanthropy is key to ensuring our hospitals continue to meet children’s current and future health-care needs.

The Woodmark Group is a convener whose programs enable its members’ fundraising teams to work collaboratively toward a shared aspiration: to lead in the development of philanthropy to improve the health of children everywhere. They pursue this aspiration through four strategic goals that were adopted by Woodmark’s board in 2020. The goals are to:

• Support significant expansion of major individual giving emphasizing growth in transformational and legacy gifts.
• Support the leadership and development of people.
• Advance understanding of the linkage between communications and fundraising results
• Provide best-in-class data analysis and business intelligence.

The cumulative philathropic impact of these 26 childrens hospitals' efforts in 2019 amounted to: