Use your time, talent, treasure and heart to be part of a life-changing wish. During this milestone year, every act of support helps bring a spark of hope, joy and strength to a child in our state.
For 40 years, volunteers have been the backbone of making life-changing wishes come true.
Every gift helps bring a child’s one true wish to life at a time when they need it most.
Your community can create something powerful: a turning point in a child’s treatment journey.
For 40 years, Make-A-Wish Iowa has granted life-changing wishes that bring hope, strength and joy to children with critical illnesses and their families. Each wish is more than a joyful moment — it can become a turning point in a child’s treatment journey and a powerful reminder of what is possible when a community comes together.
This birthday celebrates 40 years of wish kids, families, volunteers, donors, medical professionals, partners and supporters who have made life-changing wishes possible across Iowa. It honors the thousands of moments of hope created by people who chose to come together around a child and family when it mattered most.
This birthday is both a celebration and an invitation. In every community, there is someone who can refer, someone who can volunteer, someone who can give and someone who can spark the next life-changing wish.
After 40 years, one thing is clear: Life-changing wishes happen when communities come together. And the next life-changing wish could begin with you.
4 Decades of Life-Changing Wishes
Make-A-Wish Iowa granted its first wish in 1987.
Make-A-Wish Iowa has granted wishes in all 99 counties in Iowa.
Make-A-Wish Iowa has granted over 5,000 life-changing wishes.
270 kids in Iowa will be eligible for a wish this year