Nurse Meg's Beacon of Joy Endowment Fund
Partner agency since 2019
We provide financial assistance to Seattle Children’s Medical Unit patients and families needing emergency assistance with food, transportation, housing or other critical needs as determined by Seattle Children’s staff.
Our daughter, Meg Reynolds-Gooch, during eight years as a nurse on the Medical Unit, effected calmness, joy, and healing among her patients. A long-distance runner, Meg did not allow cancer to define her or how she lived her life. Cancer was an uninvited obstacle presenting hurdles that she literally ran through and flew over with infinite grace, strength, and resilience. Meg never dipped in zest for life overflowing with adventure, laughter, and love. Her colleagues called her the “baby whisperer” for her special gift of nursing sick children that left permanent imprints on innumerable lives—patients, families, and co-workers.
Nurse Meg’s Beacon of Joy Endowment, annually distributing 4.5% of its value, honors Meg’s words from our last conversation: “I want to be remembered as a beacon of joy.”
