Make A Wish Foundation Research Paper

Fulfilling a Child’s Wish Imagine the joy of finally becoming a parent. All the time, effort and dreams created with each new life. Imagine holding that perfect bundle of joy in your hands and looking into those eyes; seeing all the possibilities and future dreams in that one tiny gift God has given you. Imagine now those same eyes, looking at you from a hospital bed and hearing the doctors tell you that your child, your precious gift, is terminal. At that one moment, how many dreams would want to help save and treat your child? How can you even imagine going through this process? How much would you just wish for one good thing to come during this hardship? Make A Wish Foundation grants children their most desired dream, and it has been able

The Make- A- Wish Foundation’s mission reflects the life- changing impact that Make- A- Wish has on children, families, and entire communities. By granting wishes it allows kids to see a bright light during a hard time and empowers them to fight harder against their illnesses.
Make A Wish was founded in 1980 in Phoenix Arizona. It all started with Tommy Austin a U. S Customs Agent who found out that his wife 's friend Linda had a child named Chris Greicius who was probably going to die of leukemia. This boy was seven years old and always dreamed of becoming a police officer to “fight the bad guys and catch them” together with Tommy. Tommy told the Arizona Department of Public Safety officer Ron Cox his issue of this boy, and asks if they could do something for this little boy. Chris gets the notice that he doesn 't have much longer to live, and that 's when Tommy felt that a child should be able to fulfill a dream that they have always wanted to do. Tommy gets the police department together along with a patrol car, a motorcycle, and a helicopter to let Chris experience the wish that he always dreamed of. Tommy takes Chris on the day of his dreams on April 29th, Chris receives his own police outfit, badge, and hat and he

The following day Tommy and another officer goes to Chris’s house to give him his own kid motorcycle but to only find out that he was back in the hospital. Tommy explained that Chris 's smile that he gave to him for what he has done and made him have a good day was empowering. “He was only seven years, 269 days old when he died. But he taught me about being a man. Even though he was only a boy. I can tell you that because of meeting Chris, I am an entirely different man. Ron Cox said the same thing. He said he didn’t fear death anymore,/ because he knew Chris would be there waiting for him.”.(wish.org). Chris passed away three days later. With what Tommy Austin had done for this child inspired his fellow DPS officers and at an officer 's retirement party Frank Shankwitz talks about this whole thing that Tommy did and that he would pursue creating a wish -granting organization. With that being said that summer DPS officers gather and start to create Make A Wish. They begin to get donations and by November of 1980, the group is approved as a tax -exempt status as a nonprofit organization. Eventually, the next year they received