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Make-A-Wish Foundation  

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  • The Make-A-Wish Foundation is one of several foundations that grants wishes to children with life-threatening conditions. It is a nonprofit organization that brightens the lives of gravely ill children by fulfilling their wishes to go, be, meet, or have whatever they have wished for. [Source: Encyclopedia of Death and the Human Experience; Make-A-Wish Foundation]

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