FAQs

Registration will open on Thursday, April 1st and the deadline to complete your Acts of Kindness Challenge and fundraise is Friday, May 14th.

Registration is FREE this year but you can add our signature event T-shirt for $20 when you register! All participants are eligible to receive a complimentary face mask.

o   The Acts of Kindness Challenges aligns with our core mission of humankindness and our goal is to reach 5,000 acts of kindness together.

o   We will provide participants with a digital Acts of Kindness Bingo Card. One Bingo Card will be pre-filled and the other will be blank. To learn more about our Acts of Kindness Challenge click here.

Participants are encouraged to complete as many activities/acts as possible to help reach our 5,000 acts of kindness goal.

We will highlight individual participants, and teams through weekly rankings on social media and on our event website.

Yes you can! A traditional 5K will count as 5 acts of kindness since it’s a great wellness activity!

Yes! We encourage you to involve your children and have them complete their own bingo card. We will have a kid-friendly bingo card available for download.

To support California Hospital Medical Center meet their $100,000 goal. 100% of the funds raised will support its pandemic response and recovery efforts. Donate $1 and $1 goes to the hospital.

The deadline is Friday, May 14, 2021.

Participants will receive a raffle ticket for completing an entire Bingo Card. A raffle ticket provides participants with an opportunity to win some great raffle prizes. You can get more raffle tickets entered by fundraising! click here to learn more.

The team that completes the highest amounts of Acts of Kindness activities/acts will win our Acts of Kindness Champion trophy!

Participants may email their completed bingo cards to CHMCFoundation@DignityHealth.org or print and mail it to the following location:

California Hospital Medical Center Foundation
ATTN: Maggie Trigueros
1401 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90015

When completing your complimentary virtual registration, you can add our signature t-shirt for $20/each.

A digital bingo card to download and a sponsored face mask. Our signature event t-shirt can be added for $20/each.

Some suggestions are featured in the Bingo Cards. Click here to get more ideas!

Participants may send pictures and/or videos to CHMCFoundation@DignityHealth.org

Details of the t-shirt and complimentary face masks’ pick-up are coming soon. Click here to get more information.

This year, 100% of donations will help address our hospital’s pandemic response and recovery efforts, including our “care for the caregivers” program to sustain our dedicated staff. To learn more about fundraising, click here.

Yes! Click on the home page and begin typing the team name, first name, or last name in the search bar below the donation thermometer. Your options will display as you type.

Yes!
Please make payable to CHMC Foundation with note: HOTC 2021 and mail to:

California Hospital Medical Center Foundation
Attn: Heart of the City 5K
1401 S. Grand Ave., Leavey Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90015

Any donation made online should post immediately. If an online donation does not post within 5 minutes, please contact us.

All monetary donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Yes. For Canadian donations made online with a credit card, the amount entered in the online donation form will be in U.S. dollars.

Any donor who makes a donation online will receive a donation confirmation email. All donors (online and via check) will receive an acknowledgement letter for their donation, mailed to the address provided post-event.

If a donation check has been written out to you personally, you may endorse the back of the check and mail it in with a completed donation form to California Hospital Medical Center Foundation.

We do not recommend mailing cash donations. You can drop off the cash off at California Hospital Medical Center Foundation along with your information or you can deposit the cash and make an online donation to your own page on behalf of the donor.

Log in with your email and password to visit your headquarters page. Select ‘My Fundraising Reports on the left side. You will then find a list of all of your donors as well as a list of all donors to your team.

Raffle prizes will be distributed the week of May 17th.