TMH Foundation

TMH Foundation The TMH Foundation generates critical funding for the programs and patients of TMH.

Generous donors partner with us to solve complex problems and elevate the level of healthcare available to all, making TMH a place of advanced care, healing and hope.

🎅🎶 Help Santa With Music Therapy’s Wish List 🎶🎅Our Music Therapy team has been extra good this year — and you can help f...
12/18/2025

🎅🎶 Help Santa With Music Therapy’s Wish List 🎶🎅

Our Music Therapy team has been extra good this year — and you can help fill Santa’s sleigh for them and our patients!

Research shows that Music Therapy improves patients’ physical and emotional well-being by easing pain and reducing anxiety and stress, even providing developmental assistance.

Your support helps bring comfort, connection and healing through music to patients of all ages.

✨Wish List includes:

🥁 Percussion Stocking Stuffers
• Drum Practice Pads
• Drumsticks

🎼 Stringed Instrument Favorites
• Acoustic/Electric Guitar
• Acoustic/Electric Concert Ukulele
• Concert Ukulele
• Baritone Ukulele

🎁 How to Give:
• Donate online at TMH.ORG/Donate and select Music Therapy from the dropdown
• Or mail a check to:
TMH Foundation
1331 E. 6th Ave.
Tallahassee, FL 32303
(Please write “Music Therapy” in the memo line.)

📞 Questions? Contact Rebeccah Lutz at Rebeccah.Lutz@TMH.org or 850-431-5904.

Thank you for helping us share the healing power of music this holiday season. 🎵


🦩 💙 $100,443.50 Raised for Breast Cancer Patients at TMH Through the Challenge! 🦩 💙 We’re celebrating YOU! Thanks to t...
12/16/2025

🦩 💙 $100,443.50 Raised for Breast Cancer Patients at TMH Through the Challenge! 🦩 💙

We’re celebrating YOU! Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community and the partnership of First Commerce Credit Union, this year’s raised an amazing $100,443.50! These funds will help ease the burdens of breast cancer treatment, ensuring support reaches those who need it most.

This was the sixth year for the Flamingo Challenge, founded by First Commerce Credit Union in 2020, as a grassroots campaign to generate support for patients of the Walker Breast Program at TMH. First Commerce played a key role in this year’s success with a generous $11,703 donation!

Altrua Global Solutions also played a big part in this year’s challenge by providing all our new Franny Flamingo signs and Frannies for the Dress a Flamingo Contest!

Every flamingo placed and every dollar raised brings comfort, hope and support to patients navigating breast cancer.

Thank you to First Commerce CU, Altrua Global Solutions and everyone who flocked together to make a difference for our neighbors and loved ones.


As 2025 ends, we invite you to join us in honoring the memory of Rikki, the original SuperPup, with a special gift.🐕 🎁 B...
12/12/2025

As 2025 ends, we invite you to join us in honoring the memory of Rikki, the original SuperPup, with a special gift.🐕 🎁

By giving a SuperPup at TMH.ORG/SuperPup before December 31, you continue the legacy of this extraordinary golden retriever, whose gentle presence brought comfort to thousands of adults and children through TMH’s Animal Therapy Program.

Rikki’s journey began after she was rescued from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and found her forever home with Chuck and Patty Mitchell in Tallahassee. Rikki knew no stranger and had a keen ability to sense suffering. Whether it was comforting adult patients in pain or helping children practice reading, her empathy and compassion truly changed lives.

Rikki’s impact didn’t stop with the patients she visited at the Tallahassee Memorial Rehabilitation Center. She also helped children testify as victims of violence, offering them a safe space to find their voice. Her presence was so powerful that it led to a groundbreaking change in Florida law, allowing therapy dogs to accompany child witnesses in court.

Though Rikki passed away in 2017, after nearly 25,000 nose-to-nose sessions, her spirit lives on in every SuperPup.

SuperPups aren’t just stuffed animals – they provide support and comfort to children receiving treatment in the hospital and help children learn to read through Animal Therapy’s R.E.A.D. program. Trained therapy dogs and their handlers help children improve reading and confidence by having kids read aloud to the dogs. The children take home a Rikki SuperPup to continue their practice.

You can be a part of Rikki’s story!

When you donate, you continue Rikki’s tradition of love and healing. SuperPup brings comfort to children when they need a special friend.

Help us honor Rikki’s legacy by giving a SuperPup today. Visit TMH.ORG/SuperPup by December 31 to make your donation. Together, we can carry Rikki’s spirit forward — one SuperPup at a time.


In 2020 when The Rev. Brant and Alexandra Copeland retired from First Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, they gave chil...
12/09/2025

In 2020 when The Rev. Brant and Alexandra Copeland retired from First Presbyterian Church in Tallahassee, they gave children in our community a wonderful gift through the Rikki SuperPup Program. 🐶💙

In celebration of their retirement, the Copelands rallied their friends, family and congregation to help launch the program, which provides a soft, plush SuperPup to comfort children in the hospital. Five years later, Rikki SuperPup is still going strong and holds a special place in the Copelands’ hearts as they continue to help provide SuperPups to the children of our community.

This holiday season, please consider giving the gift of comfort to a child in the hospital. TMH serves 1,500-2,000 children annually who could use a SuperPup. For $40, you can bring hope and healing to a child. If you’d like to ensure SuperPups are available to every child who needs one, please make your gift before Dec. 31 at TMH.ORG/SuperPup. 🎁

Rikki is so much more than a stuffed animal! She comforts children when they need a friend, and she stays by their side to help them feel brave. If a child needs a cast, SuperPup can get one first. If it is a shot that is needed, SuperPup can get one, too. From bandages to breathing treatments, SuperPup is alongside each child to bring comfort and security.

SuperPups carry on the legacy of the real Rikki, a golden retriever rescued after Hurricane Katrina who found her home in Tallahassee with Chuck and Patty Mitchell. Rikki became a beloved member of the Tallahassee Memorial Animal Therapy Program, comforting thousands of patients through her gentle, healing presence. Her spirit continues today — not only in the hospital, but in classrooms where Animal Therapy volunteers use SuperPups to help children practice reading aloud. Each child then takes home their own SuperPup as a reading buddy. 📚🐕

Thank you to the Copelands for helping to bring this special program to life, and to Rikki for being the original SuperPup! Please make your gift before Dec. 31 at TMH.ORG/SuperPup to ensure this program continues for years to come. 💙

Last week, Zakary Smith with Smith Smiles Toy Donations — along with a few of his fraternity brothers from FSU’s chapter...
12/08/2025

Last week, Zakary Smith with Smith Smiles Toy Donations — along with a few of his fraternity brothers from FSU’s chapter of Zeta Beta Tau — delivered more than 100 brand-new toys to our pediatrics department.

Smith Smiles began in 2011, when 5-year-old Zakary’s younger sister was recovering from surgery and he noticed some of the toys in the hospital's playroom were broken or missing pieces. Wanting to help, he chose to donate his own birthday gifts — sparking a family tradition that grew into a nationwide 501(c)(3) nonprofit.

Since then, the Smith family has donated well over 100,000 toys to hospitals in 25 states and even abroad, inspiring countless acts of kindness along the way.

To Zakary, his fraternity brothers and the entire Smith family: thank you for bringing joy and a whole lot of smiles to our youngest patients. 💙

Doing some holiday shopping this weekend? 🛍️While you’re at the Tallahassee Books-A-Million, take a moment to brighten a...
12/05/2025

Doing some holiday shopping this weekend? 🛍️

While you’re at the Tallahassee Books-A-Million, take a moment to brighten a child’s holiday.

This Sunday, December 7, is the final day to donate a book or toy for a child spending the holidays in the hospital. 📚 🪀

Stop by the special display near checkout, pick out a book or toy, and help bring a little extra warmth, comfort, and joy to a young patient at TMH.

Your small act of kindness can make a big impact. 💙


💙🐾 It’s !Today is — a global day of generosity — and you can bring comfort and courage to a child in the hospital at ...
12/02/2025

💙🐾 It’s !

Today is — a global day of generosity — and you can bring comfort and courage to a child in the hospital at TMH.ORG/SuperPup.

Every year, 2,000 children in TMH’s care find bravery through Rikki SuperPup. These special pups are made possible by generous donors who help children feel safe and supported during hospital or emergency visits.

💙 Lilly is one of those children.

Last year, Lilly’s parents rushed their bright, singing, dancing 2-year-old to TMH with a terrifying 106° fever. Their little girl was suddenly silent — scared and unsure of what was happening.

Then a nurse walked in with something soft, comforting… and heroic: Rikki, a SuperPup.

The moment Lilly wrapped her arms around her new friend, everything changed. Her fear eased. Her parents’ fear eased. That spark of courage came from someone like you.

🐶 When you give a SuperPup, you’re giving more than a toy. You’re giving:

• A helpful tool for clinical teams to connect with children
• A loyal companion who “takes” casts, bandages or shots first
• A source of courage that stays with a child through every step of care

💙🐾 And today, your impact goes even further.

Every gift made on Giving Tuesday will be matched, up to $15,000, thanks to Spirit Halloween’s Spirit of Children program. Your gift today helps twice as many children like Lilly find comfort, bravery and healing.

Every child deserves a hero like Rikki — and a caring friend like you.

Give today to ensure this special program continues for years to come at TMH.

💛🐾 Coming This …📅✨ Tuesday, Dec. 2 is ! On this global day of giving, you can give comfort to a child in the hospital...
12/02/2025

💛🐾 Coming This …

📅✨ Tuesday, Dec. 2 is ! On this global day of giving, you can give comfort to a child in the hospital at TMH.ORG/SuperPup.

🐶💛 Every year, 2,000 children in TMH’s care find bravery through Rikki SuperPup, a soft, cuddly hero who stays by their side. SuperPups exist thanks to the generosity of donors who ensure children feel safe and supported during their emergency or hospital experience. Our clinical teams also use SuperPups to demonstrate procedures and help children understand the medical treatment they’ll receive. 🩺🐾

🎁💛 On Giving Tuesday, you have an opportunity to make an even greater impact. Every gift made will be matched, up to $15,000, thanks to Spirit Halloween’s Spirit of Children Program! Your gift on Giving Tuesday helps twice as many children.

🌟 Every child deserves a hero like Rikki — and a caring friend like you. Please give today to ensure this special program continues for years to come at TMH! 💛🐾

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Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Foundation

Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH) is a private, not-for-profit healthcare system made possible by the many generous people who also value caring for their community. Through the TMH Foundation, individuals, businesses and organizations come together to bring new medical technology, introduce resources to expand patient- and family-centered care and increase the expert knowledge of our medical team through ongoing education so the community can continue to benefit from exceptional healthcare.

The TMH Foundation is a Florida not-for-profit corporation, organized under Chapter 617 of the Florida Statutes, and is licensed by the State of Florida as a charitable organization. It is designated as a public charity under the provisions of Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and exempt from federal income tax. Contributions to the Foundation are deductible by donors and/or their estates for federal income, gift and estate tax purposes.

Members of the Foundation’s Board of Trustees are community leaders charged with policy and oversight, managing the Foundation’s assets, distributing funds to TMH, encouraging community involvement and promoting population health – within and beyond TMH’s service area, through educational programs and research projects.