Cap for Kids worked with a local dealership to get the family a car, and even paid the first few months of insurance to get them started. This was just before the pandemic hit, when it became evident to the world that if you’re sick, mass transit is not your best option. For example, in 2019 Cap for Kids helped a Denver-area family whose only option was to take their seriously ill child for life-saving treatments using a city bus. To date, that something more has resulted in raising over $350K, all of which has been distributed to families not only in Colorado, but all over the country. “But we felt like we could do something more.” And there were a lot of nerd-themed cosplay groups who did the rounds at local hospitals, buoying the spirits of the kids, inspiring them to keep fighting the good fight. There were already charities to help with medical expenses or to send a sick child to Disneyland. “He’d already been doing hospital visits and talking with patients and their families, and found that there weren’t enough charities just helping people get their bills paid.” It was later in that same year that Bailey had the idea to start a charity for kids battling cancer, and called on Morimitsu to help assemble the team. He just has that look, and he has an aura he carries with him, too.” “ dresses up like Captain America,” says Morimitsu, “and people really believe he’s Captain America. Both were cosplayers - Bailey as Captain America and Morimitsu as fellow Avenger Hawkeye. In 2015, Nathan Morimitsu met Sterling Bailey at what was still being called Denver Comic Con. The Cap in its name refers not only to the nonprofit's focal character, Marvel’s Captain America, but also serves as an acronym for who its members are: Cosplayers Against Pediatric cancer.Īnd Cap for Kids' story began like many of the great superhero stories do: with a team-up. Cap for Kids is a Denver nonprofit that works with children undergoing cancer treatment, providing both financial and emotional support to them and their families.
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