Adopt-A-Wish®

Adopt-A-Wish® Lets You Change a Life

The Make-A-Wish Foundation® of South Dakota grants over 50 - 60 wishes each year, and that number is expected to grow. Like children, wishes come in all shapes and sizes, from Disney vacations to spending time with a favorite celebrity.

You can help make a special child's wish come true. Through the Adopt-A-Wish® program, your group can team up to raise funds for one child's wish. Any group can become Adopt-A-Wish® partners: companies, church or civic groups, unions, colleges, clubs - any group of individuals who want to work together for a common goal.

 

The Minnehaha Country Club wait staff donated their tip money and raised enough money to Adopt-A-Wish.

How Wish Adoption Works


The program is simple and fun. Your group decides how it wants to raise funds, and with the help of Make-A-Wish®, you'll select a wish to adopt. If you need suggestions for fundraising activities or events, we can help with that, too. As your project proceeds, your group handles the funds. Once the wish is adopted and the actual arrangements for the wish get under way, you forward the funds to Make-A-Wish®.

Adopt-A-Wish® & Make Lasting Memories


Your Adopt-A-Wish® support offers a child welcome relief from the treatments, hospitals, anxiety and fear that are so much a part of facing a life-threatening medical condition. You can help a child have a happy, hopeful time with family, a time to create lasting memories that will help them through difficult times. It's a gift of a lifetime!

Winona's wish was fullfilled with a shopping spree. Her wish was adopted by United Healthcare.

  

 

 
Luke's wish came true with a bedroom makeover. Volunteers painted, put up a wallpaper border and  hung a miniature solar system from the ceiling. The room was completed with a television and Luke's favorite movies. 

The UAW-GM represented by, Steve Eggebraaten and Gary Stewart of Pontiac Cadillac of SIoux Falls,  adopted Luke's wish.