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MEDICINE OF THE HEART – CLAYTON’S STORY

Welcome to the Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer website. We invite you to look around our site to learn more about Clayton, the mission of the organization, case histories of children and their families we have helped, how we accept referrals of children, and how you can help us in our mission to create everlasting memories.

Clayton Dabney was a very special and courageous little boy who, at the age of six, lost his battle with cancer. Clayton’s unique spirit and legacy lives on, however, through the organization and the supporters who further our cause to help needy families that struggle with the effects of a child dying from cancer.

Medicine of the Heart, our primary outreach program, has helped over 5,000 families and distributed over $5 million in last wishes, gifts and financial assistance to terminally ill children and their needy families across the United States. As a non-profit, charitable organization, we depend solely on the community for funding and hope you will find a way to help us continue our mission.

Cancer is a devastating disease that strikes children indiscriminately, leaving families emotionally and financially exhausted. Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer can help ease these burdens and help provide much needed life-long memories. For when it is all said and done, that is all there is… memories.

FAMILY STORIES

Boy Hosts Texas Longhorns
Game Watching Party

Five-year-old Girl Lives
Her Princess Dream

Nine-Year-Old Boy From
Dallas Goes Fishing

A Girl Gets The 16th Birthday
Party of Her Dreams

Eight-Year-Old Boy and
His Spiderman Dream

12-Year-Old Boy With
Leukemia Gets Computer

Mavericks Play-Off Game
For A Boy’s Entire Family

Gifted Young Artist Becomes
A “Star For A Day”

Boy Gets A Parrot
To Care For

BOARD & ADVISORY COUNCIL

DALLAS BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2022 Officers
Genny Montgomery – Chairman
Andrew Pinkerton – Treasurer
Elizabeth Hunt – Secretary
Board of Directors
Brooke Armstrong
Chad Barrett
Daniel Bowers, M.D.
Bill Brown
Robert Carter
Daniel Cullins
Ryan Dale
Mary Anne Dunne
Joshua Furrh
Ali Greenwood
Amy Grissen 
Bowen Hendrix
Joe Hickman
Rick Jones
Lee Koons
Jennifer Maness
Cathy Martin
Holt Martin

Amy McEvoy
Blair Mercer
Stephanie Mercer
Mary Grace Mewett

Ryan Miller
West Miller
Layne Pitzer

David Ross
Malcom Ross
Jenny Saphier

William “Buck” Weatherby

DALLAS ADVISORY COUNCIL
James E. Braden
Barry Brown
Bob Carter

Tony Click
Daniel E. Cooper, M.D.
Scott Dabney

Shelby Dabney
Ruth Ann Daniels
Ann Delatour
John Delatour
Claire Emanuelson
Brian Ficke
R. Stephen Folsom
Maggie Graham
Anne Helbing

Rick Lafitte
Patrick Leavey, M.D.
Janet McCarty

Niven Morgan
Randa Roach
Lee Rury
Audrey Schmit

Lisa Walker
Joe Young

HOUSTON BOARD OF DIRECTORS

2022 Officers
Grady Roberts – President

Board of Directors
Matt Bain

Anne Carl

Murali Chintagumpala, M.D.
Genna Evans
Shawnna Fatjo

Laura Fondren
Jennifer Hanson
Renee Lange
Todd Marix
Mike Mahlstedt
Graydon Oliver
Allison O’Neill
Stephanie Sanders

Kate Stukenberg
Kristi Whiteside
Rex Whiteside

HOUSTON ADVISORY COUNCIL
David Bruce
Mimi Marix
Kathleen Panus
Bill Pugh

FINANCE AND LEGAL

2018 AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
2018 FORM 990 TAX RETURN
2019 AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENT 
2019 FORM 990 TAX RETURN
2020 AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENT 
2020 FORM 990 TAX RETURN
2021 AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENT
2021 FORM 990 TAX RETURN

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CD ANTI-DISCRIMINATION AND HARASSMENT POLICY
CD DONOR PRIVACY POLICY
CD CONFLICT OF INTEREST POLICY
CD DOCUMENT RETENTION AND DESTRUCTION POLICY
IRS DETERMINATION OF 501C3 CONFIRMATION CD 2007
CD WHISTLEBLOWER POLICY
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Nine-Year-Old Boy From Dallas Goes Fishing

A nine-year-old boy from Dallas loved to spend time with his older brother and two younger sisters. A favorite family pastime was fishing off a pier with their dad. To re-live old memories and make new ones, the young boy wanted to take one last fishing trip with his family. Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer paid for the family to travel to Southern Louisiana and spend two days fishing together making everlasting memories on a boat with a tour guide showing them the best spots to catch the biggest fish.

Boy Hosts Texas Longhorns Game Watching Party

A young man from a small Texas town with just weeks left in his young life was hospitalized during the 2005 college football national championship game. He loved the Texas Longhorns and dreamed of hosting a big game watching party for his family and friends. Sadly, his parents could not afford such an affair and the young man could not leave the hospital. Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer paid for a watch party at the hospital complete with his favorite foods, drinks, Texas jerseys and signs, and many of his closest friends and family.

Five-year-old Girl Lives Her Princess Dream

A five-year-old girl in Houston diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor was living in a one-bedroom apartment with her single mother. Every day she would dream her illness away by pretending to be like the princesses she saw on TV and in her videos. Her mother desperately wanted to make this dream come true but couldn’t afford more than her meager household expenses. Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer made this dream come true by delivering a white “princess bed” complete with a new mattress, bedding and a special canopy. CD also provided sparkling nightlights, princess pillows and rugs to complete the princess suite.

12-Year-Old Boy With Leukemia Gets Computer

A 12-year-old boy living with his parents was diagnosed with Leukemia. Despite lengthy hospital stays, he tried his best to keep up with friends and family, but struggled to do so simply using the telephone. His parents were falling behind on house payments and household bills so they couldn’t afford to buy him a computer to help him have an easier form of communication with loved ones. Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer bought the boy a laptop so that he could busy himself with computer games during the long hospital stays and keep up with the lives of those he cared about most.

Eight-Year-Old Boy and His Spiderman Dream

An eight-year-old boy was bedridden in the hospital due to his terminal cancer with only days to live. His mother and father remained steadfast by his bedside. Desperate to provide something special for his son, this boy’s father called on Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer to provide the one thing last wish that this boy had always dreamed, a visit with Spider-man. Within 24 hours CD arranged for an authentic and licensed Spider-man character to visit this boy in his hospital room. For several hours they talked, read Spider-man books, and watched the latest Spider-man DVD.

A Girl Gets The 16th Birthday Party of Her Dreams

A young girl living in Dallas who was diagnosed with a terminal Leukemia bravely fought her illness for several years. She spent month-after-month in treatment only to see her cancer worsening. She desperately wanted to experience a day of beauty for her birthday but such an extravagance was out of her parent’s financial reach. Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer provided this girl and several close friends the 16th birthday party of her dreams with a limousine ride to a special salon for manicures, pedicures and hair makeovers. The evening concluded with a pizza party with a DJ and a slumber party at a local hotel.

Gifted Young Artist Becomes A “Star For A Day”

A gifted young artist from Houston dying of cancer dreamed of being a “star for a day”. Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer provided this young girl real “star” treatment with a shopping spree for a new dress and spa treatments for hair and make-up. CDF had her artwork professionally framed and hung in a real gallery. A limousine then delivered the family to a catered art exhibition attended by some 60 family members and friends.

Boy Gets A Parrot To Care For

A 17-year-old boy living in Austin with his parents was dying of his cancer. For years, he watched as his parents and medical professionals took care of his every need. His one desire was to be able to care for someone else. One therapy, he often enjoyed was when animals and birds were brought to the hospital to interact with patients. At his parent’s suggestion, Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer purchased the boy a parrot which gave this young man exactly what he wanted most, to pour his heart into caring for something else other than himself.

Mavericks Play-Off Game For A Boy’s Entire Family

A young boy from a small town was being treated in Dallas for his never-ending battle with cancer. He and his brother loved watching sports, but basketball and the Dallas Mavericks were their favorite team. Seeing them in person was always a dream but both boys knew their parents could never afford such an extravagance. No one in the family had ever seen a professional sporting event. Clayton Dabney for Kids with Cancer purchased tickets to a Maverick’s play-off game for the entire family. Afterwards, they enjoyed a steak dinner in downtown Dallas and stayed the night in a high-rise luxury hotel. The boy also got a jersey of his favorite player, Dirk Nowitzki.

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