{"id":140034,"date":"2026-03-16T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140034\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T22:27:07","slug":"make-a-difference-monday-allentown-nonprofit-celebrates-13-years-helping-families-of-premature-babies-make-a-difference-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/140034\/","title":{"rendered":"Make a Difference Monday: Allentown nonprofit celebrates 13 years helping families of premature babies | Make A Difference Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; For today\u2019s Make a Difference Monday, we&#8217;re shining light on Lily&#8217;s Hope Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation helps families with premature babies.<\/p>\n<p>And just over the weekend, they celebrated their 13th anniversary as a non-profit with their annual St Patrick&#8217;s Day Party for Preemies Gala.<\/p>\n<p>The foundation is named after the founders&#8217; daughter, Lilian Hope.<\/p>\n<p>Lilian was born 7 weeks premature and placed into the NICU for urgent medical care.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a decade, the nonprofit has supported thousands of families with care packages for any stage of the journey, including hospital care and emergency needs.<\/p>\n<p>Lily&#8217;s Hope Foundation also hosts a family support group Facebook page for parents to build community and gain resources.<\/p>\n<p>For more information or to support the cause, head over to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lilyshopefoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Lily&#8217;s Hope Foundation\u2019s website<\/a>, or find them on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LilysHopeFoundation\/directory_intro\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They have fundraisers coming up including a Bingo for Babies at Lower Milford Fire Company on Sunday, April 12th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. &#8211; For today\u2019s Make a Difference Monday, we&#8217;re shining light on Lily&#8217;s Hope Foundation. The foundation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[119,121,120,54015],"class_list":["post-140034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-allentown","tag-allentown","tag-allentown-headlines","tag-allentown-news","tag-lily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}