MAKE-A-WISH AMERICA

By Tamir
 MAKE-A-WISH

• Based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA

• Headquarters in Phoenix
• Nationwide and international presence
• Who they help:
• Children aged 2 to 18 with critical illnesses
• Collaborate with medical professionals for eligibility
• How they help:
• Grant life-changing wishes
• Examples: meeting a celebrity, going to Disneyland, becoming a
superhero for a day
• Collaborate with wish families, volunteers, and donors
 DIFFICULTIES
FACED AND
DIFFICULTIES
MADE

• Difficulties:
• Limited resources (financial, staff, time)
• High demand for wishes
• Ethical dilemmas in wish prioritization
• Choices made:
• Prioritize wishes based on medical urgency
• Justification:
• Ensure the greatest positive impact with available
resources
• Save lives and provide joy to those in urgent need
• Other choices:
• Expand fundraising efforts
• Increase partnerships
• Develop more stringent wish-granting criteria
 ETHICAL DILEMMA

• Ethical dilemma:
• Balancing needs of many children with limited resources
• Different answers:
• Prioritize children with more urgent medical conditions
• Random selection
• First-come-first-served
• Age-based prioritization
• Charity's choice:
• Prioritize children with more urgent medical conditions
• Other choices:
• Implement a lottery system
• Use a waiting list with clear criteria
• Rotate priority based on different factors
 STRENGTHS, WEAKNESSES AND
TRADE-OFFS

Strengths: Weaknesses: Trade-offs:

• Saving lives • Potential • Balancing fairness
• Maximizing positive disappointment for and impact
impact on urgent children without • Potential donor
cases urgent needs reactions to choices
• Perceived unfairness
PERSONAL ANSWER TO ETHICAL
DILEMMA

My answer: Why:

Aligns with the Acknowledge the difficulty

Support the charity's choice foundation's mission to of choices but emphasize
of prioritizing medical bring hope and happiness the importance of saving
urgency to children facing serious lives and maximizing
illnesses impact