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F OUNDATION YEAR IN REVIEW | FISCAL YEAR 2020

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2020 Year In Review

2020 Fiscal Year Covers October 1, 2019 - September 30, 2020

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Dear Friends, Together, we’ve had to adapt to many changes over the course of a fast-paced and challenging year. On behalf of Valley Children’s Healthcare President and CEO Todd Suntrapak, we thank you for your tremendous support. Your past support helped put Valley Children’s in a position to weather this storm, and your support in recent months has provided the resources necessary for our clinical teams to transform the challenges wrought by the pandemic into opportunities to be the leaders in children’s health in the Central Valley. It has been truly inspiring to see the tens of thousands of generous people who contributed financially in the last year to support our mission, as well as the hundreds of others who made in-kind contributions to help us respond to the pandemic. Your philanthropy propels us forward, helping us perpetuate Valley Children’s legacy of providing the best care for children. Central Valley kids need and deserve the highest quality care. Your generosity helps purchase lifesaving equipment and recruit expert pediatric specialists, allowing Valley Children’s to meet the ever-increasing demand for services in the Central Valley. In recent years, philanthropy has been a key driver enabling Valley Children’s to enhance access to specialized pediatric care by establishing a network of Valley Children’s facilities along the Highway 99 corridor. Your philanthropy allows Valley Children’s to do something beyond treating patients. We give children comfort. We provide families with hope. We are deeply grateful for your ongoing generosity that helps us provide the needed care for cherished little lives to get better. Because of you, we can remain focused on our precious mission: to continually improve the health and wellbeing of children. For that, we can’t express enough gratitude.

Warmest regards,

Robert V. Saroyan President Valley Children’s Healthcare Foundation

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These donations have helped patients, staff and family members stay safe and healthy, and no doubt given them a much-needed boost in the midst of additional screening precautions, testing and program changes that have affected all Valley Children’s Healthcare locations. We are grateful and humbled to have received these gifts to help us with our ongoing mission to continuously improve the health and wellbeing of children. Since mid-March of this year, the hospital has received these beneficial items (pictured) from more than 200 donors.

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We have been incredibly moved by the generosity of our Central Valley community during the pandemic. Despite a shelter-in-place order, social distancing and closures, thoughtful community members and organizations have stepped up by donating essential in-kind items and generously contributing to our COVID-19 Fund to assist the response efforts at Valley Children’s Hospital. It is truly inspiring to witness how together, our friends and neighbors remain committed to helping each other, even when circumstances are far less than ideal.

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Thank you to the following donors who contributed to the COVID-19 Fund: Albertsons • Bank of America • BBVA • CoBank – Rural America Corporate Bank • Max and Karen Downs • Educational Employees Credit Union (EECU) • Kabab City, Inc. • Evan Ladd • Matty Matoian • Panda Express • Premier Valley Bank • Ranchers Cotton Oil • Sands Capital • Estate of Dr. Troy Smith • Visalia Rawhide • Wells Fargo Bank • Thank you to the following donors who gave in-kind contributions: 7-11 Stores Greater LA Zone / Sunny Chauhan • Aileen Martinez • Alpha Kappa Alpha • Amanda Gonzales • Ana Isabel Vera • Ana Tapia • Andy Blake • Anne Rowles • Anonymous • Ariana Zavala • Barbara Stairs • Bee Sweet Citrus • Best Buy Markets • Beth Robertson • Blanca Andrade Ponce • Blue Diamond Almond • Brandy Rocha • Briana Seltzer • Brielle Bitter • Brooke Ferdinandsen • Buck Mason • California Farmworker Foundation • Camille Burton • CenCal Services, Inc. / Mike Gonzalez • Central California Chinese Cultural Association • Charis Calvert • Charlemagne Plowden • Charles Benninger • Christa Garrison • Cietta Johnson • Cindy Schwartz • Clovis Rotary • Contours Designed / Lea Sudjian • DA Designs • Delilah White • Domino’s Pizza • Donna Bell • Donut Fantasy • Earlinda Garcia • Edible Arrangements • Elise Wilson • Emily Sauls • Esther Bruno • Esther Cuevas • Esther Espinoza • Faith Nitschke • Feed the Frontlines • Feed the Frontlines Fresno • First Baptist Church Clovis • First Chinese Baptist Church Fresno • FISH Philanthropy • Fowler Packing • Frances Jamison • Gilbert Hernandez • Gina Birkholz • Gina Tikijian • Girl Scout Troop 2127 • Girl Scouts of Central California South • HAHA Sushi • Heather Fechko • Horn BBQ • Hungry Bear Cookies Corporate Office • Iota Omnicron Chapter and Fresno Junior League • Isaac Avila • J & L Maintenance • Jack Hurley • Jackie Brown • Jackie Maldonado • Jaidziri Herrera • James Evans • Janet Tone • Janice Threlfall • Jeannine Grech • Jeannie Wong • Jennifer Crowder • Jennifer Saylor • Jessica Alvarado • Jessica Passilas • Joan Massetti • Joanie Martin • Johnna Castro • Julian Lipschitz • Karen Spencer Benson • Karen Timnerman • Karen Widlund • Kari Holden • Kathy Coleman • Kathy Pfingsten • Kelli Cipolla • Kristine & Riley Walter • Kuppa Joy • Kyle O’Keefe • La Comida Guild • La Feliz Guild • La Sierra Guild • Laurette Lee • Lazy Dog Restaurants • Liberty Mutual Insurance • Linda & Braxton Mosley • Linda Silva • Lisa Yang • Little Caesars Pizza • Lowes • Madera Agricultural Services • Madera Sunrise Rotary • Maria Santora • Maria Terriquez • Marsha Easley • Martha Salas • Martha Wogulis • Mary Derrick • Mary Smith • Matthew Alton • Melanie Thomas • Melissa Bethel • Michael Collazo • Michele Peterson • Mid Valley Packaging and Supply • Miguel Solo • Miho Schweizer • Mirna Castillo • Modesto Bulgan • Mr. and Mrs. Daniel B. Maxfield • Mr. and Mrs. Kevin Powe • Mr. Michael Deraffaele • Mr. Sean Sagardia – Sunnyside Little League • Ms. Marsha Easley • Ms. Suzie Perez • Mydili Subramanian • Napa Auto Parts • New Covenant Community Church • No Surrender Adventure Park • Norman Etchegian • Nurse Angel Network • Nurses Boutique • ORACLE HEALTHCARE • Oracle Healthcare Group • Pam Latham • Panda Express • Patricia Tovar • Patrick Murphy • Patrick Wilkinson • Patsy Clark • Paul Islas • Quinn Co. • R.Com / Paul Libaridian • Randy Poor • Rebecca Canal • Richard Dennison • Ricky Lozano • Ruby Valtierra • Sarah Smith • See's Candies • Selena Sewing / Selena Silva • Senator Andreas Borgeas • Sheryl Ballou • Shiori Sakeda • Sierra Treasures, LLC • Sierra View Animal Hospital • Slumberger Lumber • Smart & Final Charitable Foundation • State Foods Supermarket • Steven & Dena Mendoza • Sun Pacific • Susan Bates • Sweetleigh Printed / Micah Peterson • Sylvia Sanchez • Tai Chili • Tammy Mills • Tenaya Guild – Leslie Espinola • The Ugly Company • The Wonderful Company Foundation • Tricia Matthews • United Way of Fresno County • University of Phoenix • Ventura Ag, Inc. • Veronica Morado • Vicki Collier McDonald • Victoria Ramirez • Victoria Rivinius • Visalia Elks Lodge • Wayne & Gail Yamigawa • Wells Fargo • Wendy Carr • Wilma Hansen • Yvette Cortez • Thank you!

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Giannini Legacy

A Powerful Tribute:

For 124 years, the Giannini companies were farming giants in the Central Valley. LeRoy was 16 when his father was killed in a train accident and, shortly after his high school graduation, he took over the family farming operation. Under his innovative leadership and steady, hard work, the family business grew to more than 2,000 acres of nectarines and plums, along with a processing plant in Dinuba. Mr. Giannini was as generous as he was private. Over the course of his lifetime, he made sizeable contributions to support educational and faith-based organizations in his community but his gifts were not widely publicized. Mr. Jim Burnett, longtime friend and employee of Mr. Giannini and the trustee to his estate, shared that, over the years, he would pay for life’s unexpected emergencies, pay to send their children to college and cover funeral expenses for every employee or family member. In Mr. Burnett’s words, Mr. Giannini was a remarkably generous man who ran his business as a family. Mr. Giannini’s son, LeRoy A. Giannini, passed in 2018 and left more than $8 million to Valley Children’s in honor of his parents, Ruth E. and LeRoy G. Giannini. Their generosity represented the largest single gift in the organization’s history. The new outpatient facility planned for construction on the Valley Children’s Hospital campus will be named in honor of the Giannini family to serve as a powerful tribute to their generosity.

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The Giannini gift represents the largest single estate gift in Valley Children’s history.

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Honoring a Legacy

For Generations

The estate of Donald Emil Gumz has donated $4 million to Valley Children’s. To honor Mr. Gumz’s legacy, Valley Children’s will be recognizing his generosity in a new outpatient center planned for construction on the Valley Children’s Hospital campus in Madera. “One of the great privileges of leading Valley Children’s Healthcare is witnessing firsthand the generosity of extraordinary individuals like Donald Gumz,” said Todd Suntrapak, President and CEO of Valley Children’s Healthcare. Mr. Gumz was born and raised in Fresno to a family who had farmed grapes in California since the early 1900s. He graduated from Edison High School and spent his entire professional life as an accountant, first for a local developer and then with Vie-Del Winery

until his retirement in 1991. Mr. Gumz was remarkably generous, providing financial support to many causes he held close to his heart – including Valley Children’s, the Ronald McDonald House, Poverello House, Marjaree Mason Center and Fresno State’s Enology Department. “Donald E. Gumz was a true son of the San Joaquin Valley,” said Dr. David Zoldoske, cousin of Mr. Gumz and trustee of his estate. “As part of his legacy, he wanted to provide for the greater Fresno region to leave it better than ever before...Mr. Gumz left a significant contribution to Valley Children’s knowing that improving the health of the young will positively benefit the Central Valley for generations to come.”

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Gratefully Building a

Better Tomorrow

We thank the Central California Alliance for Health for their grant of $2.5 million to support construction of a new Valley Children’s facility in Merced. This remarkable investment by the Alliance is their most recent contribution to Valley Children’s to advance access to pediatric care in Merced County, having granted funds in recent years to support the recruitment of primary care providers, a food insecurity program, and the planning of the new Valley Children’s facility. The Alliance is a Medi-Cal managed care health plan founded to improve access to health care for 340,000+ residents in Santa Cruz, Monterey and Merced counties. This donation plays a critical role in making the six-acre project in the City of Merced a reality. The new facility will feature primary and specialty care services, including maternal-fetal medicine services for expecting mothers with highrisk pregnancies. We truly appreciate the Alliance’s support of Valley Children’s goal to improve access to healthcare in Merced County.

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Celebrating Gifts of

Transformation

On August 8, 2020, Valley Children’s Hospital celebrated Panda Cares Day and unveiled the Panda Cares Center of Hope, a specialized center dedicated to addressing children’s entire well-being, including their physical, emotional, mental and spiritual needs. Made possible by donations from Panda Express guests and associates, there was a virtual surprise story time and a donation of hundreds of books to promote literacy.

“We are so thankful for Panda Express’ incredible commitment and generosity in supporting organizations that serve the health and education needs of children,” said Robert Saroyan. As gestures of goodwill at the outset of this partnership, Panda Express donated $30,000 to support efforts to treat COVID-19 patients, $50,000 personally from Andrew and Peggy Cherng to support the Panda Cares Center of Hope and multiple donations of food to front-line staff. Over the past 11 years, Panda Express guests and associates from Merced to Porterville have raised more than $2.5 million for Valley Children’s.

Andrew Cherng & Peggy Cherng, Ph.D. Co-Founders & Co-CEOs Panda Restaurant Group

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Community Support Outpouring of

As the spread of COVID-19 reached the United States, Valley Children’s Healthcare acted quickly to institute a one-time cancellation of Kids Day on the event’s 33rd anniversary. The community response was overwhelming, both thanking Valley Children’s for putting health and safety first, and simultaneously encouraging the organization to observe Kids Day in some form as a Central Valley tradition. In response to this outpouring of community support for Kids Day, Valley Children’s invited Kids Day volunteers and supporters to consider donating via text or online during a special “Kids Day: Digital Edition” campaign that was held on March 10. The response was truly remarkable. When the last contribution was counted, the community had raised an astounding $243,000 to support patients and families at Valley Children’s Hospital. We offer our sincere gratitude to all – sponsors, site leaders, school administrators and volunteers – who made this result possible.

The significance of Kids Day and its vital financial support to Valley Children’s was paramount this year in the midst of the pandemic. Through the extraordinary efforts of the team, we were able to convey Valley Children’s message of hope through a great virtual experience for everyone while also raising critical funds for the hospital. We could not be more proud.

Dan A. Adams Chair, Valley Children’s Healthcare Foundation Board of Directors and Vice President – Finance & Business Planning, Disney/ABC Owned Television Stations

The Fresno Bee has been a driving force behind Kids Day from the inception of this time-honored tradition more than three decades ago. This past year has challenged us to think more creatively than ever before. Despite the trials we faced, we communicated the message of Valley Children’s better than ever before.

Tim Ritchey President & Publisher The Fresno Bee

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Thank you for all your support as we continue to make our way through these challenging times. Valley Children’s greatly depends on your philanthropic gifts. Every donation matters. If you are able, please consider making a donation to help care for Central Valley kids. You can make a donation by calling Valley Children’s Healthcare Foundation at 559-353-7100 or online at valleychildrens.org/donate.

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