Derek Carr
Philanthropy
Valley Children’s Hospital
One of the largest hospitals of its type in the nation, Valley Children’s Hospital is the regional referral center for pediatric medicine located between the Bay Area and Los Angeles. A nonprofit, 356-bed, state-of-the-art facility on a 50-acre campus, Valley Children’s is home to more than 550 physicians trained to address the unique healthcare needs of children. The mission of Valley Children’s Hospital is to provide high-quality, comprehensive healthcare services to children, regardless of their ability to pay, and to continuously improve the health and wellbeing of children.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes is an international non-profit Christian sports ministry founded in 1954 and based in Kansas City, Missouri. It has staff offices located throughout the United States and abroad
Based in San Francisco, Dignity Health has 9,000 physicians and 400 care centers in 22 states, including three hospitals in the Bakersfield area where the Carr brothers hail from. Dignity Health’s motto is “hello human kindness,” and one of the first efforts of the partnership is a video the captures another well-known story about Derek Carr — the time in March when he stopped to help a stranger who ran out of gas and was stranded in the East Bay community of Dublin.
Derek and Heather Carr have established DC4KIDS, a campaign intended to fund the most immediate needs at Valley Children’s. DC4KIDS will help our network meet the needs of more than 1.3 million children who live in our service area. It will also help Valley Children’s provide the most advanced patient care technology, recruit the best pediatric specialists, improve care and services for our most complex patients and develop the best pediatric specialty programs. Derek and Heather invite you to join them in providing support for Valley Children’s.