2025 Festival of Trees

Funding from the Festival of Trees Evergreen Endowment has been a crucial source of support for innovative pediatric research projects at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan, providing seed funding that allows physician-scientists to try new ideas to improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases that affect children. The Festival of Trees Evergreen Endowment for pediatric research has supported over 100 research studies intended to increase physician understanding of acute and chronic diseases and illnesses in children and lead to improved care. The Endowment also helps to support the Children’s Research Center of Michigan to provide crucial mentoring and support to young physicians as they start their research careers.

Festival or Trees’ support of research efforts in general at Children’s Hospital has been crucial in attracting highly skilled doctors and researchers to southeast Michigan. Without this funding, many critical projects would have struggled to get started, or may not have happened at all. Pilot projects which benefited from this funding resulted in significant positive outcomes for children, and have allowed researchers to apply for and receive additional external funding from organizations like the National Institute of Health. This crucial funding is especially important for young researchers, who could now see their ideas being studied on a larger scale, producing more solid outcomes with excellent statistical support for acceptance and a higher likelihood of receiving the additional funding needed to turn their ideas into real treatments and cures for children across the country.

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Greetings to our wonderful volunteers! We are excited to be celebrating another year of raising funds for pediatric research for the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation. We sincerely hope you will consider being a volunteer for our beautiful benefit for the Children’s Hospital of Michigan Foundation. It takes a LOT of work to put this together!

A link to our online volunteer signup tool is shown below, where you will be able to enter your information and select your preferred assignment and shift. You will receive an email confirmation of your selections and occasional reminders as the event draws near. If you have any issues using the online tool, please reach out to us at [email protected].

Visit our Online Volunteer Signup Page

Shifts are on a first-come, first-serve basis, and are based on approximately four hours per shift. If a position you request is filled, we will put you where we feel you are most needed. All volunteers must be 16 or older (Please note a parent or responsible adult must accompany anyone under the age of 18.) A community service letter will be provided showing hours served at the end of your shift. All requests for community service verification must be submitted before December 31 of the event year.