Adopt-A-Wish®

Our Adopt-A-Wish program offers individuals, businesses, foundations or events the opportunity to be recognized as an Adopt-A-Wish Partner when they donate or raise $5,000 or more!

To learn more about becoming an Adopt-A-Wish Partner, contact us at 800-640-9198

Hope changes everything.

Celebrating 20 years of support from Macy’s through its annual Holiday Letter-Writing Campaign

We’d like to thank Macy’s for donating millions of dollars to Make-A-Wish nationwide and to everyone who has participated over the years in this beloved campaign.

Congratulations to the Macy’s store in Sioux Falls, SD, for receiving the award for collecting the most letters to Santa in their division during fiscal year 2022.

Our chapter is flying high after a surprise air miles donation arrived in the mail from Alan Stager of Watertown, South Dakota. One MILLION miles, that is! This incredible gift will help us make travel wishes come true for kids with critical illnesses. We are deeply grateful to Alan for his exceptional generosity that will allow us to save dollars as airfare costs continue to rise.

We caught up with Alan (AS) for some Q & A, to learn what inspired him to make such a transformational gift!

Q: What made you think of Make-A-Wish for your awesome miles donation?

AS: I recently made a mid-career transition that gave me a chance to reflect on what I wanted to do in the second half of my career. I noticed I had a million miles on Delta airlines, and I’d recently ran across a news story and saw information about the impact of Make-A-Wish.

Q: How did you get a MILLION miles?

AS: I spent 19 years as the Head of Finance with Terrex in Watertown with a focus on building up our business internationally. A million miles really aren’t that hard to get. There are many others out there who have that and more to give, and I think donating to Make-A-Wish is a great way to use those miles.

Q: How did donating all those miles make you feel?

AS: It made me feel REALLY good! I had the realization that something good is going to happen as a result of all those years in an airplane seat, away from home and family for extended time. I spent the first half of my career gaining experience, knowledge, airline miles and stories. For the second half of my career, it feels good to give all those things back.

Q: When you donate airline miles to Make-A-Wish, they never expire. Thanks to your gift, 20 kids will get their travel wishes. Describe what that means to you:

AS: I hope I can inspire others to give miles because Make-A-Wish is an organization that needs them and will put them to good use. The ability to give kids with critical illnesses an experience with their loved ones that will last well into the future is a legacy I can leave. We all have things we can give away: knowledge, experience, miles and money. Much of what my wife and I give is private, but with these miles, I wanted to encourage others to give something that’s not monetary.

Donate Miles. Transform Lives.

Donate your Delta and United miles in four easy steps:

1. Go to wish.org/sdmt

2. Click Get Inolved then Other Ways to Support

3. Click Learn More under the Airline Miles heading

4. Click on Donate under Delta or United headings. This will open the Airline Miles Donation Form with the chapter the miles are being dedicated to listed on the bottom of the page under Local Chapter.

The local chapter will auto-populate to the chapter whose website was followed in Step 1.