EVENTS
15th Annual Candy & Item Drive (Virtual)
November 2025
Mattie Miracle is requesting your help! Please donate candy and other snack items, so that we can continue to stock our free Snack and Item Carts at hospitals. These five Carts are considered a life saver by families who are caring for a child with cancer or other life threatening illness and are unable to leave the child's bedside to get their own basic needs met. Our Carts service 2, 500 families a year.
After a decade of successful LIVE Candy Drives, we have made the difficult decision to transition to an all virtual event. Hospitals have requested that candy remain in its vacuum sealed bags, with its manufacturer's expiration date. Therefore, the safest way to meet these requirements is to use an Amazon Item Wish List.
Now you can participate in our Candy and Item drive from anywhere in the USA. Please view our Amazon wish list below, We ask that all items be received by November 10, 2025.
NOTE: The Amazon Wish List is a gift registry. Therefore, your items will be sent to the Foundation's registry address. This address belongs to Mattie Miracle's President, Victoria Sardi-Brown.
Miracle Makers
March 2025
Sponsors enable us to make the Mattie Miracles possible. We are grateful for our long term sponsors, who are committed to our psychosocial mission. We invite your business, organization, club, or group to become a partner in our work. All sponsorships fund our psychosocial programs and initiatives to support children with cancer and their families.
Sponsorships directly fund:
Click on Partner with Us to learn more.
16th Annual Awareness Walk
May 18, 2025
Our Virtual Awareness Walk will be held on Sunday, May 18, from 10am to Noon (in your time zone). You can participate wherever you are and help us turn your community ORANGE!
Our Annual Awareness Walk raises 90% of the funds we need to directly support our psychosocial programs and initiatives which help children with cancer and their families.
Date: Sunday, May 18
Time: 10am to 12pm (in your time zone)
Where: Mattie Miracle Facebook Page
GOAL: Awareness Event and to raise over
$50,000 (100% of funds support our psychosocial programs)
Great prizes for walkers with the greatest number of steps!
Click on "Walk with Us" to register for the event, purchase raffle tickets, and donate to a great cause.
April Item Drive -- We Need Your Help!
In honor of Mattie's 23rd birthday, we will be hosting our 14th annual item drive. All donated toiletries stock our Mattie Miracle Free Snack & Item Carts for in-patient pediatric families at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (Washington, DC), Children’s Hospital at Sinai (Baltimore, MD), and the Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health (Bethesda, MD). When living in a hospital 24 hours a day, seven days a week and caring for a child who is battling cancer, receiving these items can feel like a gift. Families often rush to the hospital when their children are ill and are unable to pack basic items that are needed for daily care. The carts fulfill these needs.
You can participate in our item drive from anywhere in the USA. Please view our Amazon wish list below, and help us keep our Mattie Miracle Carts stocked to support families caring for children with cancer. Our Carts service around 2, 500 families a year. We ask that all items be received by
April 7, 2025.
NOTE: The Amazon Wish List is a gift registry. Therefore, your items will be sent to the Foundation's registry address. This address is in Virginia and belongs to Mattie Miracle's President, Victoria Sardi-Brown.
15th Annual Awareness Walk
May 19, 2024
Thank you for another successful Walk! Check out our video!
Grateful for You
November, 2023
During this season of Thanksgiving, we are grateful for you. Thanks to our incredible supporters, our 13th Annual Candy & Snack Drive was a huge success. Boxes of items from our on-line Wish List flooded the Foundation.
In 2020, due to COVID-19, Mattie Miracle migrated away from a live Candy & Snack drive to an all-virtual format. This was a difficult decision, especially since our Fall Drive had great community energy, spirit, and participation. We were concerned that the virtual format would greatly impact the success of the Drive. However, we have learned never to underestimate your loyalty and generosity.
All donated items will help to stock our four Snack & Item Carts at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital (Washington, DC), Children's Hospital at Sinai (Baltimore, MD), and the NIH Clinical Center (Bethesda, MD). Our supporters clearly understand how vital our Snack & Item Carts are to the 3,000 families we serve annually who are caring for children with cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Thank you for making these miracles possible.
14th Annual Awareness Walk
May 21, 2023
Thank you for another successful Walk. Check out our video!
VIRTUAL 50 State Walk Challenge
With With Us
Thank you for another successful Walk. Check out our video!
Teens Making a Difference
February 25, 2022
Mattie Miracle is grateful to have the support of teenagers who stand or SKATE behind our mission, to meet the psychosocial needs of children with cancer and their families. Susan Rotherham is a sophomore at Meridian High School in Falls Church, VA and has selected Mattie Miracle for her community service project. Susan is an ice hockey player at her school and is combining her passion for skating with raising funds for childhood cancer.
Susan shared this reflection with us:
Childhood cancer matters to me. My father does the Pan-Mass Challenge, a 192-mile bike ride to raise funds for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. My dad is a 10-year rider and has raised more than $200,000 for Dana-Farber, where his dad was treated. I have gone with my dad to this ride most years and among the things I hear about are stories of parents who have lost their children to cancer.
Their stories have always touched me. When learning about the graduation requirement at my school to do a personal community project, I wanted to focus on something I cared about. After learning about the Mattie Miracle Cancer Foundation and its mission and work, I knew this was a good fit. I want to fundraise in a way that is unique to me, and as an ice hockey player I can't think of a better way than hosting an open skate event.
Come Skate with Us!
Event: Ice Skate Against Childhood Cancer
Date: Friday, February 25, 2022
Time: 7:30pm to 9:30pm
Location: Skatequest (1800 Michael Faraday Ct, Reston, VA 20190) Admission fee: $15 (100% of proceeds go to the Foundation)
VIRTUAL 50 State Walk Challenge
May 16, 2021
Thank you for another successful Walk. Check out our video!
Mattie Miracle VIRTUAL Walk Challenge
May 17, 2020
Thank you for making our Virtual Walk a success. Check out our video!
Mattie Miracle 10th Anniversary Walk & Family Festival
May 1, 2019
Thank you for making our 10th Anniversary Walk a success. Check out our video!
Mattie Miracle 9th Annual Walk & Family Festival
May 20, 2018
Thank you for another successful Walk. Check out our video!
Mattie Miracle 8th Annual Walk & Family Festival
May 21, 2017
Thank you for another successful Walk. Check our our video!
Mattie Miracle 7th Annual Walk & Family Festival
May 15, 2016
Thank you for another successful Walk. Check our our video!