April 11th, 2025
Imagine you’re a parent from Green Bay who’s just learned that your child has a serious medical condition and has to be airlifted to Children’s Wisconsin (CW) in Milwaukee for emergency treatment. Imagine learning that your child requires more long-term treatment at CW, forcing you to figure out where to stay, how to manage your job remotely and create a plan to care for the rest of your family so that you can be close to your child during treatment. And then you begin to wonder – how am I going to pay for it all? Our Ronald McDonald House® is the solution to all these big questions, thanks to the support we receive from our Adopt a Room Program.
We are grateful for the continued support from Adopt a Room sponsors in the Green Bay area like the George Kress Foundation and Humana. Each spring, we look forward to their renewed “adoptions” that allow families to be close to their children during treatment with all the comforts of home and opportunities to create special memories during difficult times.
On average, more than 40% of the families we serve travel from Northeastern Wisconsin for treatment. In 2024, these families called our House “home” for 1,231 nights. In addition to Adopt a Room, generous individuals and companies in the Green Bay area support us through pop tab collections, fundraising activities and monetary and wish list donations.
We are proud to have an executive from Schreiber Foods – another strong corporate partner – serving on our Board of Directors. Thanks to this hometown support, we can provide families with healthy meals, engaging programs, comfortable private rooms and so much more. And thanks in part to Adopt a Room, we can provide all of this at no cost to families, allowing them to focus on what matters most – their child’s health.
To join the George Kress Foundation and Humana in supporting our mission, please visit our Adopt a Room web page or contact Director of Development, Bridget Kesner.
