starlightcanada.org starlight.org.uk Starlight Children's Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1982.

The non-profit's programs aim to deliver happiness to seriously ill kids[1] and include specially manufactured Starlight Nintendo Gaming Stations for hospital use,[2] Disney Princess-themed hospital wear,[3] and Starlight Radio Flyer Hero Wagons with an IV pole attachment.

[4] Real-life superhero Captain Starlight also entertains sick and ill kids in hospitals as well.

Starlight Children's Foundation was founded in 1982 by filmmaker Peter Samuelson and actress Emma Samms, who was inspired by her 8-year-old brother's death from aplastic anemia.

[7] Starbright World was the first-ever private social network, started in 1995 by filmmaker and chairman Emeritus Steven Spielberg, Peter Samuelson and Norman Schwarzkopf Jr.[8] It served to connect chronically ill teenagers with life-threatening medical conditions, and their siblings,[9][10] in a safe, online community where they could chat, blog, post content, and meet others who shared similar experiences.