The Mountain Range High School of Business™ students partnered with local businesses and raised $15,247.01 for children receiving pediatric hospice care from The Butterfly Program.
The Butterfly Program, originally founded by Children’s Hospital Colorado and Porter Hospice of Centura Health at Home, has filled a unique and relatively empty niche in the Denver metropolitan community since 1999. The program serves medically underserved, low-income families who are coping with the impending death of a child. These children have been diagnosed with an illness and have less than six to twelve months to live. The program offers pediatric palliative and comfort care either at home or in the hospital.
A team of business students from the Mountain Range High School of Business program challenged staff members to raise donations for The Butterfly Program. Students who raised more money than the staff members “pied” the staff member at a school assembly. The HSB students will be honored at the annual Butterfly Program corporate donation event “Soup for the Soul” on February 22, 2018.