What is Bodhi Fund?

The Bodhi Fund is a collaborative partnership between the New Mexico Community Foundation, Children's Cancer Fund of New Mexico and the Pediatric Oncology Center of UNM Children’s Hospital. In honor of Bodhi, this Fund was created by the Robinson Family and is a Donor Advised Fund of the New Mexico Community Foundation (NMCF). The NMCF Bodhi Fund provides financial aid to assist with some of the living expenses that a family incurs while their child requires bone marrow treatment transplant and related medical treatment outside of New Mexico at a hospital rated as a center of excellence.

About the Bodhi Fund

In 2003, four year-old Bodhi was diagnosed with a rare leukemia. After two weeks of successful chemotherapy at UNM Children’s Hospital, Bodhi was referred for a pediatric Bone Marrow Transplant (BMT), a difficult medical procedure unavailable in the state of New Mexico. In April 2004 Bodhi was taken to New York City where he underwent a BMT at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Today he is an adventurous, irrepressible 12 year-old enjoying life with his younger sister and brother.

Bodhi’s family recognized the severe financial and emotional impact of having your child treated our-of-state can cause a family. In honor of Bodhi’s positive experience with treatment outside New Mexico, the Bodhi Fund was created to support New Mexico families whose children are in desperate need of distant cancer treatment.

Children's Cancer Fund of New Mexico administers Bodhi’s Fund to UNM pediatric oncology and hematology patients travelling to centers of excellence for BMT.