The Charlotte Frey Foundation
About the Foundation
The Charlotte Frey Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable foundation established
in 2011 in loving memory of Charlotte Frey. The mission of the foundation is to help
children with multiple handicaps and life-threatening illnesses and their families
improve their quality of life. This encompasses not only vital medical and financial needs, but also other supports that are crucial to a child’s experience and his or her family’s. As a result, one of the foundation’s goals is to support opportunities for these children and their families to participate in special programs, workshops, therapies, trips, celebrations, and a chance to spend time with other medically complex and fragile children, their parents, and their siblings.
Right now, the primary work of Charlotte’s foundation in achieving its mission has been to raise support for existing programs and organizations that do an outstanding job providing services for medically fragile children with multiple handicaps.
In its first year, The Charlotte Frey Foundation has donated over $26,000 to support exemplary programs and projects in the following ways:
- Purchased multi-sensory toys with lights and switches for Early Intervention programs for their work with children who have multiple handicaps.
- Raised and donated funds to Perkins School for the Blind Infant-Toddler Program.
- Helped The North Shore Educational Consortium build an outdoor Playspace specially designed for medically fragile students with multiple handicaps.
- Purchased adaptive equipment and iPads for multiply handicapped, medically fragile students at the Kevin O’Grady School.
- Participated in the Jimmy Fund Walk of the Dana-Farber Cancer institute to raise money for the Pediatric Advanced Care Team (PACT) who provide pediatric palliative care for patients at Children’s Hospital, Boston.
In 2012, The Charlotte Frey Foundation donated $30,000 to the Perkins School for the Blind’s Infant-Toddler Program to fund a music therapist for the next four years. Music is an important part of the program, and it is a wonderful way for children with complex medical needs to engage the world. Recently the President of Perkins, Steven Rothstein, sent us a letter saying, “I am so grateful to you for supporting this important program. The addition of a dedicated Music Therapist to the Infant Toddler program has already had a positive impact… Charlotte is deeply missed but her legacy lives on here at Perkins.”
In 2013, we donated $4,000 to PACT (Pediatric Advanced Care Team) at Dana Farber and Children’s Hospital Boston. The money we donated was used to purchase gas and food gift cards to be available for families at Children’s Hospital Boston. These cards will help families with a child whose complex care requires a visit or admission to the hospital so often that food and gas expenses become overwhelming.
The Charlotte Frey Foundation
10 Fawn Drive
Granby CT 060735