With only the first budding idea of developing a Foundation, Esmeralda and Hugh gathered a handful of friends in December 1995 and raised their first $120 by singing Holiday Carols in their neighborhood. 

Japanese Windflower (anemone hupehensis)

In April 1996, Esmeralda organized a tag sale which netted $9,000 and in May of 1997, the first SIDS Walkathon in Westchester County which brought in $15,000.  In March of 1998, the inaugural Windflower Ball saw proceeds of $30,000 and in 1999 the second Annual Ball raised $50,000.  In 2000, the target for the "WB" reached $200,000 and support continues to grow rapidly.

The Considering Alexander SIDS Foundation has quickly become an essential and influential part of the international SIDS community, providing resources for important research, education and support purposes, such as the following:

2001
November: sponsor of the first annual Northeast Regional Convention on SIDS and Unexpected Death from Birth to Three
April: major sponsor of the SIDS Alliance National Conference for Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, Chicago.  Considering Alexander offered a limited number of scholarships for junior scientists and investigators to attend

2000
November: jointly sponsored the National Institute of Health meeting entitled Pathogenesis in the Millennium.  The goal is to develop a broad agenda for SIDS research over the next five years that includes such areas as pathogenesis, epidemiology, racial disparity, and multicenter clinical studies with screening tools
June: sponsored the analysis of data for the CHIME (Collaborative Home Infant Monitoring Evaluation) multicenter clinical study, which evaluated home infant cardiorespiratory monitoring
April: major sponsor of the National SIDS Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, together with the SIDS Alliance
January: together with the Institute of Child Health and Development, major sponsor of a world wide symposium in Hawaii

1999
December: sponsor of the first SIDS Memorial Day for the Lower Hudson Valley
September: sponsor of the New York State SIDS Conference
June: sponsor of a researcher to attend the European SIDS Conference in Jerusalem, Israel
May: grant awarded to Dr. Maria Skolnikova of the Moscow Institute of Pediatrics to further their analysis of Cardiac Arrhythmia in children

1998
December: first SIDS Hot Line is established at the Westchester Medical Center
September: 15,000 Nursery Thermometers with SIDS Risk Reduction Advice, the first in the United States, are designed, printed and distributed free of charge
May: sponsor of the New York State SIDS Conference

A copy of Considering Alexander SIDS Foundation's last annual report may be obtained by writing to us, or to the Attorney General of the State of New York, Charities Bureau, 120 Broadway, New York,
NY 10271
.