Turning community resources into hope and comfort across the Dallas area — one card, one gift, and one rescued meal at a time.
Our Mission
Stars 'n' Sprinkles transforms community resources into hope and comfort by delivering creative cheer to hospitalized children and safely rescuing surplus food to nourish individuals and families in need.
What We Do
One registered nonprofit project built around two missions — which is exactly why we're Stars 'n' Sprinkles.
Gifting children in children's hospitals joy through handmade cards and thoughtful gifts.
Connecting restaurants with surplus food to homeless shelters, food banks, women's shelters, and people in need — cutting food waste across the Dallas area.
Our People
Ananya Karthikeyan
President
Shobana Rajendran
Secretary
Karthikeyan Ramanathan
Treasurer
Cards, gifts & pediatric patient experience
Director of Communications
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Coming soonWe create handmade cards and deliver thoughtful gifts to children fighting battles in Dallas-area hospitals — because every child deserves to feel seen, loved, and celebrated.
From your kitchen table to a child's hospital room — here's how a simple card becomes something unforgettable.
Volunteers create heartfelt handmade cards at our community craft events or from home — full of color, warmth, and encouraging words.
Through donations from our community, we curate age-appropriate, hospital-safe gift items that bring smiles and comfort to kids of all ages.
Our team coordinates with Dallas-area children's hospitals to deliver cards and gifts directly to patients who need a little extra sunshine.
A sick child opens a card made just for them and a gift chosen with love — a small moment that means the whole world.
There are so many ways to be a part of the Stars program — whether you have five minutes or five hours.
Join one of our card-making events or craft one from home. No artistic experience needed — just heart.
Contribute items from our wish list — books, art supplies, games, stuffed animals — or donate funds toward gifts.
Share our mission with friends, family, schools, or faith communities. Every new volunteer and donor starts with a single share.
Organize a card-making or gift drive at your school, office, or community group. We'll help you every step of the way.
We connect Dallas-area restaurants that have surplus, regulation-compliant food with shelters and individuals facing food insecurity — making sure good food never goes to waste.
These Dallas-area restaurants are helping fight hunger by donating surplus food that meets health and safety regulations. Want to see your restaurant here?
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We work with shelters, food pantries, and community organizations across the Dallas area to get surplus food where it's needed most.
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A simple, compliant process that gets good food to people in need — fast.
Dallas-area restaurants register with us and let us know when they have surplus food that meets health and safety regulations.
Our team quickly connects the restaurant with a nearby partner shelter or organization based on capacity and need.
Food is picked up and delivered safely to the shelter — often the same day — reaching people who need it most.
Good food that would have gone to waste instead nourishes families, individuals, and communities across Dallas.