Huby Newton lived in Portland and was actively involved with Kiwanis.  He wanted Kiwanians to take an active involvement in the health of children. His opportunity to do something came, when he was appointed to the newly created office of Kiwanis Pacific Northwest District Children's Miracle Network Chair.   Huby was not the sort of person to sit back and let things happen by themselves.  He met with the Doernbecher Children's Hospital staff and informed them that Kiwanis was there to help and support their efforts.  With their suggestions and the fund raising efforts of Huby and other Kiwanians, they managed to purchase two transport isolettes for what is now known as the PANDA team.  PANDA stands for Pediatric and Neonatal Doernbecher Transport.   

In 1987-1988 Huby Newton, Gene O'Brian and other Kiwanis club members began working with Doernbecher to raise funds to establish a bone marrow transplant unit.  Their fundraising began in 1990 and the unit opened in the summer of 1992.

In June 1998, the new Doernbecher Children's Hospital opened, and the Bone Marrow Transport Unit was integrated into the new Kenneth W. Ford Northwest Children's Cancer Center.  At this time, the Kiwanis Doernbecher Board decided to expand Kiwanis focus to the Hospital's entire cancer program.  A 501(c)(3) foundation was established and took on the name of  KDCCP (Kiwanis Doernbecher Children's Cancer  Program).   A special Kiwanis fellowship program was also established to bring in doctors to study at Doernbecher.  The Kiwanis Fellowship is a three year program designed to train doctors as Pediatric Hematology Oncology experts.   

In the 1950's, few children survived cancer.  Doernbecher now boasts at having an 80 - 90% survival rate. 

A lot of people think that since Doernbecher is part of Oregon Health Sciences University that the State of Oregon supports it.  This is not the case, actually less than 2% of Doernbecher's support comes from the state, and as I write, this amount is being reduced.

Health care is expensive. Everyone should be entitled to medical care, but very often this is not the case.

Doernbecher has never turned anyone down because they couldn't pay and a family's financial condition has never been used as criteria for treatment.

Our Kiwanis clubs in Oregon and Southwest Washington work hard to support Doernbecher.   The clubs hold numerous fund raising events.  They have a car raffle, they support the Portland/Vancouver Golf Tournaments, they help promote the Looking Glass to the Bay Bike ride and the Vancouver Key Club Bike Rides, they sell special Christmas Ornaments, and place canisters in banks and stores.  This last year, Kiwanis clubs raised over $220,000 for Doernbecher's Cancer program.   They have provided the seed money to train new doctors, who in turn will train others to heal our children.

Last year, over 46,000 children were helped by Doernbecher.

You can help as well.  You can donate money, you can buy a unique Christmas ornament, or better yet, you can buy tickets to win a classic automobile.   The nice thing is that you never take a chance when you buy a chance for Doernbecher. 
You always win, because your money will be used to help children.   

We all have children alive in our communities today, because of this wonderful hospital and the efforts of people who work to support it.

… Hey! It's only two bucks for a ticket, and there are lots of Kiwanians with tickets to sell.  You can't lose.