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Making a difference in a child’s life or seeing the happiness and relief provided to a family in need cannot simply be accomplished by donating dollars. It requires time, humility and compassion, too. The Little Lighthouse Foundation prides itself on educating, recruiting, coordinating and mobilizing an array of volunteers to lend a helping hand directly to our beneficiaries. This volunteerism could involve visiting Ronald McDonald House to play with terminally ill children, or dispensing advice to homeless women at Miami Rescue Mission.

Dispatched monthly or bi-monthly to a selected network of charities, our volunteers feed, clothe, counsel and play with children with life-threatening illnesses, families needing financial assistance and teaching those fallen on hard times how to improve their lives. In many cases, the time, smiles and hearts of our volunteers is far more valuable than monetary contributions.

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Ronald McDonald House of South Florida

The Ronald McDonald House program provides a “home‐away‐from‐home” for families so they can stay close by their hospitalized child at little or no cost. The Adopt‐A‐Meal Program ensures that the families staying at the Ronald McDonald House have nutritious meals without taking precious time away from their children. Volunteers are welcome to make an once‐a‐month, quarterly or even once‐a‐year commitment to help these families in need.

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Story Hour at the Chapman Partnership

Since 1995, Community Partnership for Homeless has been assisting homeless men, women and children in transitioning off the streets of Miami‐Dade County and on their way to attaining greater stability and self‐sufficiency in their lives.

The All‐Aboard Story Hour in conjunction with The Institute for Child & Family Health has partnered with LLF and Community Partnership for the Homeless, Inc. to provide a literacy‐based program to young children residing at the Downtown Miami Homeless Assistance Center. The story hour consists of thematic activities including storytelling, songs, games and arts/crafts. At the end of each story hour each child chooses a book to keep for his/her library.

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Adopt-A-Floor Holtz Children’s Hospital at Jackson Memorial

The Adopt-A-Floor (A-A-F) program involves volunteers adopting one or several of the hospital’s patient units; working with children living with a variety of chronic illnesses such as Cancer, Sickle Cell, and solid organ transplant. The group plans events on a monthly basis, based on the needs of their adopted unit. The Little Lighthouse Foundation volunteers work with the patients by playing games, reading and enagaging with them in arts and crafts projects.

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Blockfest

The Institute for Child and Family Health (ICFH) ‐ formerly the Children’s Psychiatric Center (CPC) ‐ is a private, not‐for‐profit organiza2on that has been providing health, behavioral health, educational, and prevention services to the children, adolescents, and families of Miami‐Dade County for over 60 years.

The All‐Aboard BLOCKfest™ offers young children in Miami–Dade and Broward Counties early exposure to STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) education through interactive hands on guided block play, as their parents are introduced to ways they can con2nue with early math and science education at home.

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