Stripes Stores presented Driscoll Children’s Hospital with a check for more than $522,000 on May 31, 2015. One hundred percent of the funds will be used to benefit the Stripes Child Life department within Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi. Courtesy Photo
Spend $1 to raise thousands for Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi. At Stripes convenience stores throughout South Texas , customers can purchase $1 Miracle Balloons, “putting their money where the miracles are,” says the Children’s Miracle Network, the non-profit that organizes the annual fundraiser.
The balloons are actually paper cutouts that donors can write their names on and hang in the store. Donations will be accepted through May 3.
“It’s with the support of Stripes and Sunoco employees and customers that miracles are able to happen every day at Driscoll Children’s Hospital,” said John Lauck, president and CEO of Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals.
Money raised will go toward serving the 76,000 outpatients and 4,800 inpatient children treated each year at the Corpus Christi-based hospital. Funds raised by Stripes, which is owned and operated by Sunoco LP, stay in the community.
The money is used to fund medical care, equipment and therapy programs for children. Hospitals in the Children’s Miracle Network family serve more than 10 million sick and injured children a year. Including Driscoll Children’s Hospital, there are 170 hospitals providing 32 million treatments a year to children in the U.S. and Canada.
