Racing For Kids kicked off the holiday season with two special visits one to Children’s Hospital of Michigan and the other to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City. Both visits were Christmas gift “drop offs” to help brighten a hospital stay for many metro Detroit and Kansas City children. In the Detroit visit, a couple […]
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Racing For Kids Jumpstarts the holidays with special Christmas Visits

Racing For Kids First Virtual Fundraiser is a Huge Success!!
Our 14th Annual Racing For Kids to the Hill certainly wasn’t the event we had been hoping to stage in 2020. But fortunately we were able to “Shift Gears” and ended up having a wonderfully successful “virtual” event that benefited both our hospital visit program as well as the community restaurants who have been with […]
Our Mission
Founded in Detroit in 1989, Racing For Kids® is designed to use the increasing popularity of motorsports to focus public attention and funding on the health care needs of children.
The hospital visits form the heart of the program. Racing For Kids® drivers visit children in Children’s Hospitals wherever they race. They spend time with each sick youngster answering questions about their sport, posing for pictures, signing autographs and handing out the distinctive Racing For Kids® hats, coloring books and assorted memorabilia provide by our sponsors.
Hospital Visits
750
Sick Children Visited
38,000
Donations Received
$7.5m+