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CARDINAL GLENNON CHILDREN’S FOUNDATION DECADE OF PHILANTHROPY

Dear Friends of Cardinal Glennon, It is with a grateful heart and a complete sense of awe that we share this 10-year report with our medical

center staff and supporters. It has been an inspiring endeavor to look back on the incredible impact ourdonors have made at SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center since the turn of a new century.When we review the past decade, we realize that thousands of young lives have been saved, healed and curedbecause so many in our community chose to care! They said “Yes!” to our faith-filled mission to treat all sickand injured children who come to us, regardless of their family’s circumstances.

We have the greatest job in the world at the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation. We have theprivilege to come to work every day to interact with the most giving, most caring and most dedicateddonors and volunteers. Our Board of Governors, a team of dedicated community volunteers, brings a levelof commitment and leadership that allows us to dream big and be bold in our strategic planning. These influential men and women see Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center as a beacon of hope. They see the fruits of their labor and the rewards of their generosity in the eyes of our NICU infants, in

microscopic heart surgeries, in cutting-edge cancer care and through so many other life-saving procedures and programs. Recently, a long-time Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation donor said, “I feel as if I’m an active part of making miracles

happen.” She had just learned about a new life-saving surgery in our St. Louis Fetal Care Institute — a minimally invasiveprocedure performed on a baby still in his mother’s womb. No one could have said it any better.

We are all called to be a part of God’s miracles. While we often don’t know His plan for us or the path of our journeys, we doknow that the next decade holds many more opportunities for our donors to step forward in faith and support Cardinal GlennonChildren’s Medical Center. It is that unyielding support that allows us to seek more innovation, more growth and more ways toreveal the healing presence of God. We will see more miracles!

Sincerely,

Dan Buck, Executive Director, Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation

When SSM Cardinal Glennon opened the doors to patientsin 1956, it was an extremely innovative hospital: It was the first hospital inthe country specifically devoted to the care of pediatric patients, and training physicians tocare for them. Our generous donors, who raised money for 10 years to build SSM Cardinal Glennon,gave the region’s families an enormous gift that continues to benefit thousands of children today.

Our donors are just as critical now to our mission as they were 65 years ago, and they continue toopen doors into the future of pediatric health care. We are grateful to the Foundation’s Board ofGovernors, whose leadership and guidance have given hope and healing to our patients by fundingcritical departments, programs and technology. By partnering the latest technology in health care withthe expertise of our physicians and nurses, we provide safer care, faster healing and healthier futures.

From an entire treatment center to a memorial donor wall, the Foundation’s donors have built world-class facilities and fostered our mission. For example, The Dorothy and Larry Dallas Heart Center,which opened in 2009, was supported by Larry Dallas’ donation in memory of Dorothy Hennessy

Dallas. The center treats young patients with the latest advancements in cardiology care. And like the rest of the hospital, the center is designed to be child and family-friendly. Vibrant artwork and bright colors in exam rooms and hallways replace sterile, white walls; patients can watch their favorite DVDs on flat-panel TVs. Improved technology provides fetalechocardiography testing and 3-D views of the heart, allowing doctors to see with more detail and clarity. This kind of carethat sets us apart is only made possible by our generous donors.

Innovation and technology is very important, yet it is our staff ’s unsurpassed dedication to the children and families theyserve that truly makes SSM Cardinal Glennon a unique place. Research has proven what we experience every day: Childrenare best treated in a hospital that focuses totally on pediatric care. We share in this great privilege and vision with you: to carefor the youngest and sickest among us with compassion, dignity and excellence, using the many gifts and talents that God hasgiven us to serve others.

Sherlyn Hailstone, President, SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center

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ALAN AND EDITH WOLFFF O U N D A T I O N

All great achievements in the non-profit worldare built around quality partnerships in whichmultiple community organizations are workingtogether. At SSM Cardinal Glennon, we havebeen blessed by thousands of individuals and

hundreds of organizations, all saying “Yes“ to our mission over the past decade. In recent years,the largest contributions have come from generous bequests, including two extremelygenerous estate gifts from Alan and Edith Wolff and Larry and Dorothy Dallas.Combined, these two families donated more than $8 million to improve our treatments,technology and facilities. We also must recognize our long-term partnership with theDana Brown Foundation, Children’s Miracle Network and the MissouriKnights of Columbus. The impact of these organizations is seen daily in the lives of our children who are healed, cured and are living productivelives thanks to the love and support of our community.

The Glennon Youth Council is madeup of kids and young adults whoare past patients and their siblings.These young Glennon Ambassadors‘role is to lend their “kid perspective”to hospital projects. One of theirfirst tasks is to give feedback onwhat should go into the newplayground area at thehospital. To learn more or get involved in theGlennon Youth Council,check out the GlennonAmbassadors page atGlennon.org!

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Cassandra Armstrong shares her ideas for the new playground with landscapearchitect Laurel Harrington

Glennon Youth Council

The following timeline recaps some of the significant contributions made to SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center from

These contributions were made possible

because of thousands of donors, supporters

and friends in our community who believe

in the SSM Cardinal Glennon Mission:

“Through our exceptional health care services, we reveal the healing presence of God.”

The Cardinal GlennonChildren’s Foundation

invests more than $160,000 in seed funding

to begin a new cord blood cell research program (a non-controversial stem cell)

which grew into one of the largest public umbilical cord blood banks in the world. To date, the

Cord Blood Bank has provided adult cells to more than 1,800 transplant patients globally.

2000 2001

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Children’s Foundation

Did you know?

The SSM Cardinal GlennonChildren’s Foundation supports

numerous youth programs and summer camps

for our Cardinal Glennon kids.

2000-2010

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Thanks to another great Bob Costas Benefit in 2001,

the Foundation invests more than $286,000in the Bob Costas Cancer Center.

These contributions have saved countless lives by deliveringsome of the best pediatric cancer care in America. As we

like to say, SSM Cardinal Glennon is where cancerresearch comes to life through effective, life-savingtreatment programs!

The world of hospital food took a drastic turn for the better. The Foundationinvests $3.9 million tocompletely renovate themedical center cafeteria forpatient families and staff.Glennon Café is considered by many as thebest hospital cafeteria in the region!

2004 Welcome to Glennon Café

2001 Bob Costas Annual Benefit

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Faith Hill and Bob Costas

Paul Simon

Conan O’Brien

2002

The Bob Costas Benefithas generated morethan $9 millionin support over the event’s 23-year history.

2006-2007

The New SSM Cardinal Glennon!The Board of Governors completes a 5-year vision and campus capital improvement.

The two-phase campaign generates $34 million to build the new four-story addition that greatly increases Cardinal GlennonÕs capacity to serve more children, both in-patientand out-patient. This significant Foundation investment also included funding for a new and improved all-private Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, making it one of the largest NICUs in the Midwest. In addition, the hospital also improved patient parking and has the ability to add additional floors to the new tower if needed in the future.

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Without the generosity of our donors, we could not touch as many lives through our criticalprograms such as Footprints, Social Services, Safe Kids,

Pastoral Care andChild Life.

Each year, the Cardinal GlennonChildren’s Foundation

supports patient families facing financial needs.Our support includes

transportation, lodging, food and

special needs.

Just as it does each and every year, the Cardinal Glennon Children’s Foundation purchases special equipment to help our nurses and doctors

stay on the cutting edge of technology. In 2009 alone, theFoundation spent more than $120,000

on equipment upgrades in the NICU and another

$214,000 on improvements to physician offices around the hospital.

The Dorothy andLarry DallasHeart Center

Dorothy and Larry Dallas never hadchildren, as they married late in life. Buttheir generosity will touch the lives ofthousands of kids with heart defects fordecades to come.

New Equipment for NICU

Dorothy and Larry left CardinalGlennon more than $4million in their estateto build and maintain a newstate-of-the-art cardiologycenter of excellence.

2008

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2010

Larry andDorothy Dallas From 2000-2010, the

Foundation transferred a total of

$51.1 millionto SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Center.

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The Glennon Ambassador Programis a new community outreach program that is designed to give the families, parents and children who know the mission of

SSM Cardinal Glennon Children’s Medical Centerbetter than most the opportunity to unite and dosome amazing work for our incredible hospital.We plan to build a powerful network of gratefulfamilies that will have a profound impact on thefuture of SSM Cardinal Glennon.

The program will include:• peer-to-peer support (past patients

helping current patients)

• donating your time to help createfundraisers to support staff and facilities

• sharing your experience at SSM CardinalGlennon Children's Medical Center withthe greater community

The Glennon AmbassadorProgram will bring a dynamic, cohesive and impactful team of grateful families together to help us further the mission of CardinalGlennon Children’s Medical Center. We lookforward to growing this program in the years tocome. If you would like to join us, please visit our programs tab at glennon.organd fill out the form provided.

Become a GlennonAmbassador Today!

Above: GlennonAmbassador LeadershipFamily — Morgan, Lauren,Jim and Angie Lee.

Left: Lauren Lee when she was a patient at SSM Cardinal Glennon.

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