10-04-2025
Check presentation: Fundraiser for Arkansas Children's exceeds goal
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (KNWA/KFTA) — After a full month of generosity and giving, Jersey Mike's cut a $156,000 check to its cause of choice.
Jersey Mike's dubbed March its 'Month of Giving' with March 26 being a 'Day of Giving.' On that day, the company donates 100% of sales to Arkansas Children's statewide.
Funds from the month-long campaign will benefit Arkansas Children's historic expansion project, providing expanded care in Northwest Arkansas.
This comes amid the hospital's extensive process of adding new programs along with building and modernizing facilities at Arkansas Children's Hospital (ACH) in Little Rock and Arkansas Children's Northwest (ACNW) in Springdale.
'Thirteen stores across the state supported Arkansas Children's. We broke our record from last year, which I believe was $143,000. It's so awesome to see a $13,000 increase, and when we do it again, we will beat this record,' Nick Morgan, Jersey Mike's co-owner, said. 'We didn't do it. The community did it. They came out. They showed out.'
His business partner Zac Morgan said the entire month of March is very rewarding for them.
'Jersey Mike's motto is 'give to give,' and we push it through our stores, and we push it out through the community as much as possible. And it means the world to us to be able to give back to the children,' Zac Morgan said.
The nearly $318 million system-wide expansion is now in year three of an eight-year process between its Little Rock and Springdale campuses.
'This is the most historic expansion project in the history of the organization. So, both Arkansas Children's in Little Rock and Arkansas Children's Northwest here will see the benefits from these funds,' Megan Flores with Arkansas Children's said. 'We're building all different kinds of spaces. Both campuses will have a whole new building structure and expanding patients' rooms, expanding different operating space and hopefully lessening wait times for our patients and their families. And just making an overall better experience.'
The plan includes recruiting 150 new providers and more than 500 new team members.
The expansion will include 265,000 square feet of new construction and 170,000 square feet of renovated construction, to create more inviting and accessible sites.
More specifically, that's a 72-thousand square feet addition to Northwest Arkansas' campus with a large focus on more in-patient beds in an effort to keep children closer to home.
It also includes an enhanced surgical space with additional operating rooms.
The expansion will double the hospital's hematology and oncology space, creating more specialty clinic space for things like sports medicine.
'We literally could not exist without community support. They are our voice behind the scenes, just lifting us up in the community and letting everyone know all the programs and services we offer,' Flores said.
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