Hope and Healing
for families with hospitalized children
We’re expanding care so more families can stay close, supported, and together during their hardest moments, now and for years to come.
A Home Away From Home for the Meredith Family
Launched in 2022, Imagine the Moment: The Campaign for San Diego’s Ronald McDonald House is expanding our ability to care for more families—more deeply—by keeping them close, supported, and together during a child’s medical crisis. With the 28-room expansion complete, the Fowler Family Challenge is now accelerating progress through program innovation and strengthening long-term impact through endowment growth.
Get Involved
Serve a Meal
Give the gift of healthy, fresh, homemade meals to families yearning for a taste of comfort. Get started here.
Volunteer
Your skills and time make a great impact on the lives of families who come to the House. Discover individual and group opportunities here.
Donate
Families are nourished and taken care of here thanks to generous support from people like you. There are so many ways to give.
Mission
Founded in 1980, Ronald McDonald House San Diego provides a “home away from home” for families with children being treated for serious, often life-threatening conditions at local hospitals.
Impact
Here’s what Ronald McDonald House San Diego supporters made possible in 2025.
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By giving me a ‘home away from home’, Ronald McDonald House supporters made it possible for Gigi to be alive and here today.
– ELIANI LAWRENCE
FEATURED STORY
A Home Away from
Home for 711 Days
At 20 weeks pregnant, Eliani Lawrence learned her baby’s heart
wasn’t developing properly. So when doctors advised that she
deliver in San Diego, where specialists could provide the best care,
baby Gigi’s miraculous medical journey began….
Around the House
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The Ron & Alexis Fowler Family Care Center
Read more: The Ron & Alexis Fowler Family Care CenterWe’re thrilled to share that our House bears a new name: the Ron & Alexis Fowler Family Care Center. The Fowler Family Care Center… Read more
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Raffle Winner Spotlight: Navy Veteran Drives Home a New Lexus
Read more: Raffle Winner Spotlight: Navy Veteran Drives Home a New LexusIntroducing Tom C. of Show Low, Arizona! For 8 years, Tom has participated in our Giving Back Raffle because he believed in helping families. He never expected to become one of its biggest winners. … Read more
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A Home That Helped the Holcombs Stay Together
Read more: A Home That Helped the Holcombs Stay TogetherWhen Greyson Holcomb was born, his parents had only moments to hold him before doctors rushed him to the neonatal intensive care unit at… Read more
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Red Shoe Day 2026 Raises Over $178,000 for Families
Read more: Red Shoe Day 2026 Raises Over $178,000 for FamiliesRed Shoe Day volunteers brought plenty of fun to the morning commute across San Diego, and our community gave right back—helping raise over $178,000… Read more
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