About Tara » Charity Work

Boys & Girls Club of America

Created to inspire and enable all young people, especially those from disadvantaged circumstances, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens. The Boys & Girls Club of America reaches out to kids who cannot afford, or may lack access too, other community programs. They are located in neighbor-hood based buildings all over the country and are designed solely for youth programs and activities. The Boys & Girls Club of America is open daily, after school and on weekends, when kids have free time and need positive, productive outlets. Every club has full-time, trained youth development professionals, providing positive roles as mentors. People in the community can also volunteer and provide supplementary support.

Campaign For Tobacco Free Kids

Helps fight the way against tobacco by urging children not to smoke. Some ways the campaign fights tobacco are by providing support, information and materials to organizations dedicated to keeping kids tobacco free, upplying individuals with the information they need to take action against tobacco, executing education and media campaigns and events that expose tobacco industry efforts to entice children into smoking and to mislead the public about the health hazards of its products, oganizing international programs with organizations and activists in other countries to promote tobacco-free lives worldwide, and more.

Texas Children’s Hospital

Texas Children's Hospital is an internationally recognized full-care pediatric hospital located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The largest pediatric hospital in the United States, Texas Children's is nationally ranked in the top four among children’s hospitals. The hospital has garnered widespread recognition for its expertise and breakthrough developments in the treatment of cancer, diabetes, asthma, HIV, premature babies, and cardiogenic and attention-related disorders. Tara supports the hospital financially and with her free time, by visiting sick children. The hospital recently opened the "Tara Lipinski Excercise Room."

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

St. Jude is unlike any other pediatric treatment and research facility anywhere. Discoveries made at the hospital have completely changed how the world treats children with cancer and other catastrophic illnesses. It is where some of today's most gifted researchers are able to do more science, more quickly. Where doctors across the world send their toughest cases and most vulnerable patients. Where no one pays for treatment beyond what is covered by insurance, and those without insurance are never ask to pay. St. Jude's is America's 4th-largest health-care charity, with a model that keeps the costs down and the funds flowing, so the science never stops. Every year, Tara makes a visit to the hospital to spend time with sick children. The cast of Stars On Ice also makes a special trip to the hopital every year, as well as donates money from ticket sales to the St. Jude every year.

AFLAC Cancer Center

The AFLAC Cancer Center and Blood Disorders Service at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, one of the largest pediatric cancer centers in the United States, treats the nation's largest patient load of sickle cell anemia and the AFLAC company's largest community project.

Miracle Match Foundation

The foundation provides grants to organizations that set up blood and bone marrow drives and research cures for leukemia. It was formed by Bill Przybysz, a tennis pro who was diagnosed with leukemia in 1995 and is on his way to recovery after a bone marrow transplant. It has been running charity tennis matches since 1997. In 2000, Tara went on a five city tour (Erie, PA, Toledo, OH, Lansing, MI, Green Bay, WI, and Grand Rapids, MI) with all procedes benefitting the Miracle Match Foundation. Tara met with fans for free at the shows, giving out backstage passes and attending after-parties.

National Youth Anti-Drug Media Campaign

Recognizing the negative impact of marijuana on teen learning and academic success, ONDCP launched the "Marijuana and Learning" outreach effort to educate parents about the risks of teen marijuana use.

Stay Safe Online

Web site with online safety tips for parents and children to help make their experience online a great one.

Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation

Founded in 1982, the American Paralysis Association established an international leadership role in funding spinal cord research. Its strategic grants totaled more than $22 million worldwide in research activities to speed progress toward a cure. CRF partnered with APA to direct its funds into these proven research channels, which included a network of more than 400 investigators around the world. Together, the two nonprofit organizations joined under the banner of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation to provide support for many of the seminal studies that will culminate in continued medical breakthroughs.

Childhood Leukemia Foundation

Childhood Leukemia Foundation is a national non-profit organization which offers a wide range of FREE services. CLF's program services have been designed to provide emotional, financial, social, educational, and recovery support to children and families touched by cancer. All of CLF's programs and activities have been designed to educate, entertain, lift the child's spirits and enhance the quality of their challenging lives. CLF serves as a resource center and works in partnership with over 130 specialized cancer treatment centers nationwide.

(Special thanks to Amanda Schaumburger and Mike Mika)