Thank you CarterStrongForever for your Recent CarterStrongForever Bucket List Book Drive and the books you just donated to ECBC. This is CarterStrong’s last donation directly to ECBC as a nonprofit entity, so we’d like to express how much we’ve cherished the partnership with the Ankeny family and CarterStrongForever for the past nine years. We remember back to 6-year-old Carter’s first Bucket List Book Drive in 2017, just after he relapsed, and the awesome 700 books that we received. After that initial donation, ECBC created a CarterStrongForever wish list of 100 titles to represent Carter — his kindness, humor, bravery, love for baseball, and love for superheroes especially Captain America. It has been such an honor to be able to play a tiny part in carrying on Carter’s legacy by sharing Carter’s books with hospitalized patients — especially oncology kiddos. Thank you CSF for letting ECBC help to celebrate Carter over the years.

And, we look forward to helping to continue to share Carter’s favorite books in the future through an ECBC funded outpatient Book Nook at CHOC — more on this to come!