What is Log a Load For Kids?
Log a Load for Kids, celebrating over 30 years of miracles, uses trees- America's green renewable resource to create miracles for sick and injured children. It is a fund-raising opportunity for loggers, the forest industry community, and state forestry associations to work together to raise money for local Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. Log a Load has chapters in 39 states and has raised over $50 million nationally.
One Hundred Percent of the money raised by Kentucky Log a Load stay in Kentucky and benefits the Kentucky Children’s Hospital located in Lexington, KY. Kentucky has contributed over 1million dollars to the children's hospital since the program started here in 1997.
The Kentucky Log a Load for Kids Committee raises funds through direct contributions from loggers, various fundraisers held by mills and the Kentucky Forest Industries Association throughout the year, and a silent auction at the Kentucky Wood Expo. The program also sponsors the Kentucky Children's Hospital's Winter Wonderland, which allows families an opportunity to provide Christmas gifts for their family as they have a child in the hospital during the holidays. and has participated in the pediatric cancer survivor picnic.
The Log a Load for Kids program has also funded two research endowments - one for heart disease and the other for health education that will work to prevent childhood diseases and work with special needs children. These endowments have contributed $500,000 to the hospital. The Child Life Area completed a $200,000 renovation project, raised by Log a Load for Kids, and renamed the Kentucky Forest Industries Association/ Log a Load for Kids Child Life Area. Our most recent funding is the KCH Mobile Clinic to tour rural Kentucky areas that may not have a pediatrician or doctor available to the patients. In 2025, we will complete that project and are looking for the next one. With the help of our members and friends, we have made the lives of many children a little bit easier as they are treated for their illnesses.
A 12x18 foot wooden mural hangs in the Children’s Hospital showing both wildlife and forest scenes, including active forest management that truly is impressive to everyone who enters the hospital. Log a Load can be proud of the wonderful impression this leaves on visitors to the hospital. Two additional murals have been completed and installed to raise awareness of the Log a Load program within the clinics. This project has educated many children and parents about the significance of the wood industry and our most valuable renewable resource—TREES.
With your donations, we were able to assist in the purchase of goggles used for MRI screenings. Most young pediatric patients have to be sedated in order to get an MRI, these goggles are specially made to wear during the procedure and allows the patient to watch movies, music, etc. to help them relax without the sedation. If you have questions, contact the office at 502.695.3979.
We are currently assisting in the funding of the Children's Hospital Mobile Clinic. This clinic can visit rural areas of Kentucky that have limited medical treatment options. A $100,000 endowment was in place for 5 years - we will complete in 2025.
GET INVOLVED– Consider getting involved with Log a Load at your company. Hosting a raffle or other fundraiser at your company is a great way to raise money for this worthy cause. This fall KFIA is designating October as the month to collect log and mill donations to support Log A Load. Feel free to contact KFIA for ideas on fundraisers or help getting started.
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THANK YOU VIDEO FROM KENTUCKY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
The Kentucky “Log A Load for Kids” program is a volunteer led statewide effort to raise money to improve children’s health through treatment, research, and education. One hundred percent of the money raised by Log-A-Load goes to the University of Kentucky Children’s Hospital in Lexington.
Since 1997 Kentucky’s forest industry has raised over $1Million. This money has supported the “Child Life” area in the hospital, two “trees” in the Treehouse Playroom, two research endowments and goggles that are wore during MRI’s to help children remain calm.
Our latest goal was to raise $100,000 over the next five years to support the Pediatric Mobile Clinic (see attached). We will complete this in 2025. One in four kids in Kentucky do not have a pediatrician in their home county. This clinic will travel to areas of the state that do not have the resources necessary to treat children.
Log A Load for Kids Committee
Mervin Strader-West Kentucky Chair
Kevin Tudor & Amy Middleton-East Kentucky Chairs
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Children's Miracle Network
The Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) raises funds and awareness for 170 CMN affiliated hospitals that provide 32 million treatments each year to kids across the U.S. and Canada. Donations stay local to fund critical treatments and healthcare services, pediatric medical equipment, and charitable care.
Since 1983, Children's Miracle Network Hospitals has raised more than $5 billion, most of it $1 at a time through the charity's Miracle Balloon icon, its various fundraising partners and programs support the nonprofit's mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible. Find out why children's hospitals need community support, identify your member hospital and learn how you can Put Your Money Where the Miracles Are, at CMNHospitals.org and facebook.com/CMNHospitals.
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