Tate's Fundraising Page for Breanna's Gift

Breanna's Gift is an arts program offering dance, visual arts, music and performing arts opportunities at Children's Hospitals and Home-Away-From-Home facilities. The organization covers all costs including teachers' compensation, costumes, dance shoes and supplies needed for art, music and performing arts. Breanna's Gift offers 3 programs to meet the needs of the children. 

Art TakeoutTM is a series of individual art classes in a box designed with project instructions and supplies. It is specifically for children too sick to leave their hospital rooms to join group classes. Currently, because of Covid-19 restrictions, all hospitalized children are confined to their rooms. 

Art Take2TM  is a program created in May of 2020 to provide a new way to bring the arts to children. It is a library of arts class videos along with supplies needed for the follow-along classes. This is an ongoing library that includes all classes that were brought live to the children.

In-Person Classes The main programming is in-person classes taught in facility playrooms or in individual patient rooms. Since 2007 through the start of Covid-19 in mid-March of 2020, classes were taught weekly at Ronald McDonald House Charities-Upper Midwest, Children's Minnesota in St. Paul and Minneapolis, and Gillette Children's Specialty Healthcare. 

The entire Breanna’s Gift program is free to all participants and to the 4 health related Twin Cities facilities where the classes are presented.

- Tate