Dear Friends of the Nest,
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This coming October marks thirty years since Tu Nidito (at the time Children’s Hospice) opened its doors to our first client: a one-year-old diagnosed with Cirrhosis who survived only 17 days after entering care. During that first year, we supported 12 families with terminally ill children. Our growth since then has been far reaching serving 1,100 individuals in 2025 through nine distinct services. Each year, as we did back in 1996, we start each budget year at zero and work hard to raise the money it takes to ensure our support services are available to our community at no cost to them as we continue to meet the demand for our still non-competitive services.
Our 30th anniversary provides an opportunity to strengthen our mission — not just for this year, but forever. In 2016 we launched an Endowment. We are building on our Endowment Fund to ensure that Tu Nidito will always be here for our community. Since that time, we have grown our endowment fund to more than $730,000. Our goal is to reach a million dollars before taking a disbursement and applying the roughly $40,000 toward our direct care programming. Our hope is to reach that goal this year — and with your help we can.
We are profoundly grateful to have a donor who believes strongly in our mission and growth of our endowment and has generously agreed to match up to $30,000 in endowment donations in 2026 to honor Tu Nidito’s 30th Anniversary.
We invite you to make a contribution to our Endowment in honor of our anniversary. Your support will allow us to unlock the full $30,000 match and your gift will have double the lasting impact. It will ensure a lasting legacy of Tu Nidito’s work in Southern Arizona. Growth of our Endowment allows us to sustain our services through economic uncertainty, expand thoughtfully, and protect access to care for generations of children and families in the future.
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Liz McCusker,
Executive Director
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THANK YOU FOR A REMARKABLE EVENING!
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Thank you to our sponsors and everyone in our community who made our Remarkable Celebration a tremendous success! Whether you attended, bid on an auction item, donated from afar, or volunteered: your support improves the lives of children, teens, young adults, and their caregivers grieving a serious medical condition or death.
We had a blast seeing everyone decked out in their best Gilligan Island-themed attire, and we hope you did, too. It truly was a fun and heartfelt evening honoring five amazing women: Dr. Liz Almli, Lindsay Knott, Lynda Weigel-Firor, Angelica Sharpe, and Dr. Melissa Zukowski. Thank you for hearing their stories.
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Participating in the Jim Click Millions for Tucson Raffle helps us create a community of acceptance and understanding for those grieving a serious medical condition or death. Thank you, Jim Click! Together we will ensure No Child Grieves Alone. Tickets for the 2026 raffle are now for sale, and the drawing takes place on December 10th, 2026. Entrants will have a chance to win one of three great prizes:
- NEW 2026 Nissan Frontier Pro-X4 Roush Edition®
- Two round-trip, first class airline tickets to anywhere in the world
- $5000 cash
Tickets cost $25 each or 5 for $100, and all proceeds for tickets purchased below are retained by Tu Nidito. Buy yours today.
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We are honored and grateful to receive the Core Grant from the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona. This generous funding helps us continue providing vital services, resources, advocacy, education, and community support to the individuals and families we serve.
92% of every dollar we raise goes to our programs which we provide completely free of charge—every dollar counts!
Together we are building a stronger, more supportive community for all.
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