Become a monthly donor to help us serve more children all year long.
Bring Comfort Through the Power of Reading
Every $10 donation helps provide comforting books to children and families who need them most.
Our Mission
The Healing Chapters Foundation is a volunteer-run 501(c)(3) that:
- Provides books to children facing physical or mental illness.
- Partners with service organizations to deliver thoughtfully selected, age-appropriate books.
- Promotes reading as a source of encouragement, imagination, and connection when children need it most.
Gifting Partners
To reach more children, we partner with the following organizations by providing an inventory of books for distribution to children and families who need comfort, encouragement, and hope.
- Adult, Child, & Family Services – Mankato, MN
- Childhood Cancer Community – Rochester, MN
- Families First Counseling Services – Waterloo, IA
- Family & Children’s Center – La Crosse, WI
- Family Service Rochester – Rochester, MN
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Des Moines, IA
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Iowa City, IA
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Sioux City, IA
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Chicago, IL
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Albuquerque, NM
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Rochester, MN
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Minneapolis/St. Paul/Duluth, MN
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – St. Louis, MO
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Indianapolis, IN
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Kansas City, MO
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Billings, MT
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Omaha, NE
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Columbus, OH
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Cleveland, OH
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Cincinnati/Dayton, OH
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Akron, OH
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Pittsburgh, PA
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Sioux Falls, SD
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Houston, TX
- Ronald McDonald House Charities – Morgantown, WV
Corporate Donors
We are deeply grateful for the generosity of our corporate sponsors. Their support allows us to continue growing our mission of bringing comfort and encouragement to children facing physical or mental illness.
Trina Solano – Edina Realty
We need your help!
Your gift of time, talent, or treasure helps the Healing Chapters Foundation put books into the hands of children facing serious health challenges. Help us bring comfort and hope through the power of reading!
Contact Us
Please use the form to contact us with comments, to volunteer your time, or nominate an organization for us to work with.
Volunteer your time — help plan fundraising events to bring reading enjoyment to kids.
Nominate an organization — a children’s hospital, Ronald McDonald House, etc. — for us to reach out to.
Our Library
Our library features carefully selected titles from mostly independent authors. By choosing these books, we provide children with unique and meaningful reading experiences while also supporting the creativity of emerging writers. If you have suggestions for books we should consider, we would love to hear from you.
The Wonders of the Peculiar Parasol
Harrison Waits
Vincent Ventura and The Mystery of the Chupacabras
Artsy-Fartsy
Uh-Oh! We’ve Got Birds
Goodnight Unicorn
Sip, Slurp, Soup, Soup / Caldo, Caldo, Caldo
Goodnight Little Dreamer
Just Fishing
News
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April 2026 Roadtrip
Joyce and I went on a road trip this April to deliver over 2000 books to 8 locations across the Midwest/Mideast states of Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Our Gifting Partners of Families First Counseling (Waterloo IA) and Ronald McDonald Houses in Chicago, Columbus, Cleveland, Akron, Pittsburgh, Morgantown, and Cincinnati (in that order)…
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Autumn 2025
As we head into the holiday season, the Foundation has been very busy. Book deliveries to our Gifting Partner network has been pretty steady, with books provided to Ronald McDonald Houses in Omaha, Kansas City, Des Moines, plus two new locations: Pittsburgh & Morgantown WV! Plus we added two new mental wellness partners: Adult, Child,…
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A Busy September 2025
We were pretty active this month, dropping off books with 4 of our Gifting Partners: Ronald McDonald Houses in Iowa City, St Louis, and Rochester and to the Childhood Cancer Community. Plus, the Foundation and numerous volunteers were very active in selling tickets to our first ever Raffle. The Raffle will be drawn in November…
