Todd Martini from Alex’s Coupons, who has been providing coupon content to this site for the past several months, asked us to pass this along:

Alex’s Coupons will be donating two thousand five hundred dollars to Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation at the 4th Annual “Oscar Night America” dinner, which will be held at the Triple Door in Seattle Washington on February 24, 2008.

Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation is one of our favorite organizations as they see how important it is for kids with serious illnesses and their families to be able to relax, laugh and enjoy special experiences together. From diagnosis on, they are there for the kids and their families, both in and out of the hospital. When our daughter Alex was going through nearly six years of treatment for Leukemia, Starlight Starbright was always there to help us get through some of the darkest times.

Starlight Starbright has built playrooms and teen lounges, and donated portable gaming stations and computers to hospitals across the country. They have even written software programs so that kids can play games that relate to their particular illness. While out of the hospital, families are able to participate in special events such as zoo outings, harbor cruises, special parties, musicals, concerts and more. When families are going through treatment, things like this more often than not, go by the wayside. If not for financial reasons, then for a lack of time to plan something like getting theater tickets. When your child is going through treatment so much is going on and you never know when you will be in or out of the hospital.

So when you get an email saying that tickets are available in two days for a show that’s been sold out for months and you happen to be out of the hospital, you feel like you’ve won the lottery! A chance for your child to put out of their mind for a few hours all the stress and fear that surrounds them on a daily basis. A chance for you to see your child that works so hard to be brave during treatment and faces so much pain on a daily basis, laugh, joke around, watch with baited breath and then at the top of her little four and a half year old lungs scream “Go Beast!” right in the middle of watching Beauty & the Beast on the stage! Then when you think she’s done, hear her yell even louder and more exuberantly, “Yea Beast!” This was definitely one of our favorite Starlight memories!

Please take a moment to visit the Starlight Starbright website and make a donation. And if you live in the Seattle area we’d like to encourage everyone to come out and support Starlight Starbright by buying a ticket to their Oscar Night America dinner. Thanks in advance for your help.

Starlight Starbright Children’s Foundation Oscar Night America Dinner