Meet Evelyn and Benjamin Visit varietyiowa.com/grants-programs and read how we’re improving children’s lives. They were born at 32 weeks and spent three weeks in the Mercy Cedar Rapids NICU. The Compassion Fund stepped in to help their family during their stay. “The Compassion Fund really made us feel like people cared and were thinking of us while we were focusing on the babies getting stronger so they could come home. We are so blessed with these two babies (now toddlers) and we feel so lucky to have been recipients of the fund.” – Jennifer 11