A Concord woman's nonprofit that brings comfort and support for families with critically-ill children in the hospital has continued to grow since KPIX first spotlighted the Jefferson Award winner in 2005.
A Concord woman's nonprofit that brings comfort and support for families with critically-ill children in the hospital has continued to grow since KPIX first spotlighted the Jefferson Award winner in 2005.Janet Frazier spends her days overseeing an assembly line of students packing care bags for families in crisis. 'I want the families to feel love by the community,' she said. 'And this is a community effort, it's huge.'Frazier understands the need.
When we met her a year later, she had a dozen volunteers who'd packed and distributed 30,000 non-perishable food bags to families at a dozen hospitals. Today, Frazier's nonprofit reaches 58 hospitals from Sacramento to San Diego and even parts of Colorado. Some 340,000 families have received the food bags thanks to an expanded volunteer base.
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