How You Can Help
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has provided a vital service to our surrounding community for more than 100 years. This service has been built on excellent patient care, strong academic leadership and ground-breaking research. But the driving force behind our mission is great compassion — compassion that we share with the community we serve.
From directing a United Way contribution to the Heart Center to hosting an annual picnic for the Heart to Heart support group, there are many ways to continue giving to children with heart disease. We are forever grateful to the many donors who have given so generously over the years, and we know that our patients and their families will benefit greatly by your continued support.
Special Book Offer
Book
Benefits the Heart Center
Pittsburgh’s
Leslie Wilk Braksick, PhD, is the author of Unlock
Behavior, Unleash Profits, a business management and leadership
book published in January 2000 by McGraw-Hill. Dr. Braksick is donating
all royalties from the sale of Unlock Behavior, Unleash Profits
to the Heart Center at Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh,
for a special reason. On Christmas Eve 1996, Dr. Braksick gave birth
to Sydney Leigh Braksick. Although her daughter had the normal beauty
and intelligence of any new life on earth, her malformed heart and
brain stem gave her an all-too-brief life of just 32 days, all of
which were spent in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at Children’s
Hospital.
Dr. Braksick and her family have been profoundly impacted by the brief life that was Sydney Leigh’s. Through the tremendously difficult and uncertain road they traveled during those 32 days and after, Dr. Braksick comments that the physicians, nurses and staff of Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh demonstrated medical excellence, personal compassion and a respect that transcended all decisions and difficulties. In addition to her donation of the book’s royalties, Dr. Braksick actively encourages individual and corporate gifts to the Heart Center from readers of her book.
Pittsburgh Consultant and Author Leslie Wilk
Braksick
Dr.
Braksick co-founded The
Continuous
Learning Group,
Inc.(CLG) in 1993 and
has built
the company
into the world’s
leading provider
of results-based
behavioral
consulting.
She is now
the CEO and
President
of the firm,
which has
its headquarters
in suburban
Pittsburgh,
near the Pittsburgh
International
Airport. The
book is a
result of
the demand
of her Fortune
100 executive
clients to
document her
cutting-edge
application
of results-based
people strategies.
Through Unlock
Behavior,
Unleash Profitssss,
Dr. Braksick
shares with
readers her
savvy in applying
behavioral
science to
help organizations
run better
and more profitably
and displays
her unique
blend of energy,
personality,
humanity and
emphasis on
family values.
To order a copy of Unlock Behaviors, Unleash Profits (300 pages, hardcover, U.S. $21.95), call the Development Department at Children’s Hospital at 412-692-5318.
Updated 4/24/07
