Open up your hearts this holiday season to a life-saving cause: children with congenital heart defects. February is American Heart Month, intended to raise awareness and funds for heart disease research.
Triad-based Hands For Hearts has opened ticket sales for its annual casino night, which has raised more than $410,000 and funded two research grants since its establishment in 2014.
The agency is North Carolina's leading non-profit organization supporting congenital heart defect (CHD) research and supports summer camp programs and support communities for children with CHD. Skotty Wannamaker, Jeff Fusaiotti and Kathleen Little founded it in honor of their friend Matt Sullivan, who died in 2014. Sullivan's nephew, Nicholas Lacrose, was born with a congenital heart defect -- a condition that affects 40,000 babies (one in 100) born in the U.S. every year.
Wannamaker and Fusaiotti announced Hands for Hearts donations from last year's event will fund a fourth-year pediatric cardiology fellowship at Duke Children's Hospital.
You're invited to the fifth-annual casino night, featuring amazing auction items (including rare bourbon and beautiful artwork). It is Saturday, February 23 at 6 p.m. at Greensboro Country Club. Purchase tickets here or make a generous donation here.
Meghann Mollerus is honored to be the event emcee.
