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Lurie Children's Taste Buds
Lurie Children's Taste Buds is a restaurant partnership program that helps local businesses turn everyday dining into meaningful support for kids and families.
Through creative fundraising promotions and opportunities, restaurants can inspire guests, strengthen community relationships, and help Lurie Children’s provide lifesaving care and support to kids across Chicagoland.
Whether you're a neighborhood café, family-owned restaurant, brewery, bakery or hospitality group, Taste Buds makes it easy to engage your customers, support your community and help advance world-class pediatric care.
Lurie Children's hosts two annual signature fundraising and awareness campaigns that inspire our community to take action. We encourage Taste Buds partners to align promotions with one or both of these featured moments to maximize visibility, engage customers and increase support for kids and families at Lurie Children's.
Whether you participate in one featured campaign or both, we'll work with you to build a promotion that fits your goals and helps more kids receive the care they deserve.
Every partnership helps support lifesaving care, innovative research and programs that ensure children receive the care they need regardless of their family's financial circumstances.
June | Lurie Children's Week
Celebrate the power of community.
Each June, Lurie Children's Week brings together patients, families, supporters and corporate partners to celebrate the extraordinary care made possible through philanthropy. The week culminates with Lurie Children's Day on June 9, creating a citywide moment of generosity and awareness.
This is a great opportunity to:
- Host a giveback day or week
- Launch a limited-time menu item
- Encourage round-up donations
- Promote your partnership through in-store signage and social media
Becoming a Taste Buds partner during Lurie Children's Week allows your business to be part of one of our largest annual community celebrations while reaching customers who are already inspired to support local children's healthcare.
September | Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
Go Gold for kids facing cancer.
September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, when communities across the country "Go Gold" to honor children facing cancer and support the research and care they need. At Lurie Children's, this month raises critical funding for lifesaving treatments, groundbreaking research and family support services.
Taste Buds partners can help by:
- Featuring a "Go Gold" menu item or specialty drink
- Donating a portion of September sales
- Hosting a fundraising event
- Decorating your restaurant with gold-themed materials
- Encouraging customers to round up their purchase in support of pediatric cancer care
Together, we can turn everyday dining into extraordinary support for children and families facing cancer.
Ready to plan your promotion? Complete the registration form to get started.
Choose Your Promotion
Select a fundraising idea that fits your concept and guests.
Pick Your Dates
Run a campaign for a day, week, month or whatever timing works best for you.
Receive Marketing Support
Access promotional materials, social media assets, and support from the Lurie Children's team.
Engage Your Guests
Invite diners to participate through promotions, donations, or special events.
Celebrate Your Impact
See the difference your restaurant makes for local families.
We'll Help You Make It Easy
Lurie Children's Taste Buds is designed to be flexible. Choose the fundraising model that works best for your business! Our team provides promotional materials, digital assets, social media graphics and partnership support to help you create a successful campaign.
Ready to plan your promotion? Complete the registration form to get started.
Why Partner with Lurie Children's?
Lurie Children's is one of the nation's leading pediatric hospitals and a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing exceptional care for every child who needs us.
Through Lurie Children's Taste Buds, restaurants and food-service businesses can:
- Increase community visibility
- Attract socially conscious customers
- Strengthen customer loyalty
- Engage employees around a shared mission
- Support local children and families
- Align with a trusted Chicago nonprofit
Every partnership helps support lifesaving care, innovative research and programs that ensure children receive the care they need regardless of their family's financial circumstances.
Sign UpFrequently Asked Questions
A restaurant give-back program allows businesses to donate a portion of sales or customer contributions to a nonprofit organization while engaging guests around a shared cause.
Taste Buds welcomes all types of restaurants! We can create partnership opportunities for cafés, bakeries, bars, breweries, food halls, restaurants and franchises, quick-service concepts and hospitality groups.
The program is designed primarily for businesses serving the Chicagoland community, though regional partners may also participate.
Restaurants can support charities through percentage nights, round-up campaigns, menu item donations, checkout donations, special events and community fundraising campaigns. Lurie Children's Taste Buds is a great way to work with experts to design a give back program that fits your needs and goals.