- $806 RAISED OF $5,000 GOAL
- 7 DONORS
- 18 DAYS REMAINING
HONOR ROLL
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Leonard Sahn $36.00
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Steven Myerson $500.00
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Bart Buesseler $75.00
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Julia Moore $20.00
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Samuel Milton, MD $100.00
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kenyetta dotson $25.00
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Patrick Hayes $50.00
Improving Health, Hope, and Opportunity with Community-Driven Solutions
There is no greater joy than making sure that babies have what they need to grow up healthy and successful.
A public-private partnership, Rx Kids is the nation’s first citywide maternal and infant cash prescription program that launched in the city of Flint, in January 2024. Rx Kids provides all pregnant moms with no-strings-attached cash of $1,500 during pregnancy and $500 each month throughout the baby’s first year.
The first months of life are critical for a baby’s development; it’s also when families are struggling the most.
There is no greater joy than making sure that babies have what they need to grow up healthy
What if we, as a community, reimagined the social contract and came together to give families extra support during that first year? Rx Kids has been doing exactly that - helping meet the basic needs of mothers and babies.
Rx Kids is a transformational effort - strengthening family financial security, improving maternal mental health and wellbeing, and improving maternal infant health.
For more than 1,200 families, cash prescriptions have already been a beacon of hope! Rx Kids enrolled moms report that they feel the money from Rx Kids is helping them become more confident parents. Looking deeper at how families spend their cash prescriptions, the top five items include:
❤️ Baby supplies
❤️ Food
❤️ Rent
❤️ Utility bills
❤️ Transportation
Did you know that family income drops sharply near the birth of a child?
For many families, the joy of bringing a new baby into the world collides with stress brought on by financial insecurity. Babies are expensive, which is why your gift is monumental for families. Your donation will be used to fund cash prescriptions for Rx Kids enrolled families and help offset this financial strain.
Our overall fundraising goal is to meet or surpass $5,000. We invite you to join the movement to support Michigan families and future generations – anything helps. ❤️
Your donation will make an immediate difference! A donation to Rx Kids is a donation to love, joy, and thriving adorable babies.
Thank you for joining our mission to reimagine how we care for each other.
Focusing on population health from its home base – the College of Human Medicine Flint campus, the Charles Stewart Mott Department of Public Health is home to Rx Kids.
Rx Kids has already provided life-changing financial security to over 1,200 families and is working to expand the universal no-strings-attached program in more Michigan communities.
Make a Gift by Mail:
University Advancement
Spartan Way
535 Chestnut Road, Room 300
East Lansing, MI 48824
*Make check payable to Michigan State University and write “Appeal 25OOPCF1GTRXK” in the note section.