What You Need To Know
Jersey Shore University Medical Center Foundation is pleased to announce that Spirit Halloween has contributed nearly $110,000 to Hackensack Meridian Children’s Health at K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital. The donation, made possible through the Spirit of Children program in which Spirit Halloween donates proceeds back from the 2023 Halloween season, will support the Child Life program at the Children’s Hospital. Spirit Halloween has made this donation to K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital eight times in the past, contributing nearly $700,000 to benefit our youngest patients.
The funds that Spirit Halloween donates to partner hospitals, including K. Hovnanian Children’s Hospital, are used to help the Child Life team support pediatric patients and families throughout the hospital. Importantly, the gift to the Children's Hospital will enable additional Child Life programming, including music therapy, and increase Child Life services in the pediatric surgical and emergency departments.
The Spirit of Children program is made possible through the fundraising campaigns conducted in local Spirit Halloween stores. In addition to the donations collected in stores, customers were able to utilize Spirit Halloween’s 10-for-10 coupon, where they received 10% off their purchase and Spirit Halloween matched every coupon purchase with a 10% donation. Participating 2023 stores included the following locations: Brick, Freehold, Howell, Holmdel, Manalapan, Tinton Falls, two Toms River locations, Wall Township and West Long Branch.