ConKerr Cancer Minnesota: Those We Serve

Those We Serve

Contact our area coordinators if you would like to make a donation. Please do not drop off pillowcases directly to hospitals.

Children's Hospital - Minneapolis

Minneapolis, MN

Pillowcases delivered as of 04/2015 = 2,792

Children's Hospital - St. Paul

St. Paul, MN

Pillowcases delivered as of 04/2015 = 1,350

Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare

St. Paul, MN

Pillowcases delivered as of 04/2015 = 339

Maple Grove Hospital

Maple Grove, MN

Pillowcases delivered as of 04/2015 = 351

Ronald McDonald House

Minneapolis, MN

Pillowcases delivered as of 04/2015 = 829

Saint Mary's Hospital

Duluth, MN

Pillowcases delivered as of 04/2015 = 3,694

Saint Mary's Hospital

Rochester, MN

Pillowcases delivered as of 9/2010 = 125

Shriners Hospital

Minneapolis, MN

Pillowcases delivered as of 04/2015 = 668

University of Minnesota

Amplatz Children's Hospital

Minneapolis, MN

Pillowcases delivered as of 04/2015 = 7,592

Total = 17,740

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ConKerr Cancer started when Cindy Kerr’s son was diagnosed with cancer in 2002 and she began making pillowcases to brighten up his hospital room and to put a smile on his face. He loved it and so she began making pillowcases for other children on the Oncology Unit at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

Since then the pillowcase project, A Case for Smiles, has grown in amazing ways. We have provided over 240,000 pillowcases made by thousands of volunteers from across North America and in South Africa. School groups, sewing circles, church groups and fabric stores have all pitched in and are making pillowcases for the kids. An exciting new program has been to take fabric and sewing machines to hospitals and sew with the patients and their families.

ConKerr Cancer has been able to make amazing progress towards fulfilling our goal of making hospital stays as pleasant as possible for chronically ill children and their parents. Simultaneously the pillowcase project has fostered a spirit of community and volunteer service in communities across North America. Unfortunately the number of sick children never ends, and we must continue to expand our efforts to help brighten patients’ lives and raise awareness about childhood cancer.