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Programs

Current Programs

Noah's Hope Boats at Advocate Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn, Illinois (top left), and Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago (bottom right).

Noah's Hope Boats

Our first project, Noah's Hope Boats, started as an idea on February 17th, 2025, at Lurie Children's Hospital in Chicago. We visited the Lurie Cardiac Care Unit (CCU) for the first time since Noah received his wings there on September 12th, 2024 and brought a gift basket (the size of a boat because we do nothing small, lol) for staff.

This continued with another boat-sized "thank you" basket for the Pediatric Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (PCICU) at Advocate Children's Hospital in Oak Lawn, and now continues for pediatric cardiac patients, their families, and care providers throughout the Chicago area.

As our inaugural program, these baskets will contain comforting and practical items, including: blankets, books, games, gift cards, snacks, and soft tissues.

The "Good" Tissues

In the hardest times, families need the softest care, including tissues. Sometimes standard-issue hospital tissues don't offer the most comfort.

Hospital tissues are scratchy, thin, and do the job, but we want everyone experiencing the Heart Warrior journey (sometimes with tears of joy, sometimes with tears of sorrow) offered this small comfort all the time.

We collect, purchase, and deliver the "good" tissues to hospital pediatric cardiac care units for anyone needing a little extra love, courtesy of Noah.

Future programs to become possible with your generosity...

Emergency Housing Support

Grateful for Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), where we lived almost exclusively during Noah's 38-day Heart Warrior journey.

Besides keeping families together and parents as close as possible to their precious children, RHMC does an over-the-top job making hospital families feel at home (please, always "Round-Up" for them).

After hospital arrival, a brief gap may exist before transitioning into longer-term housing like RMHC.

Parents can sometimes stay in the hospital room, but for when they cannot, we plan on offering short-term emergency housing support for families.

The Noah Marzelli Heart Award

Encouraging and supporting future pediatric cardiology heroes, Wings of Noah has partnered with Harper College in Palatine, IL, for establishing a scholarship honoring our Heart Warrior, Noah. Eligible students will include any health science major interested in pediatric cardiology (nursing, respiratory care, sonography, surgical technology, etc.).

For more information and to donate to the fund, please visit:

https://donorbox.org/the-noah-marzelli-heart-award

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