There With Care helps families with severely sick children

• The nonprofit provides services like transportation to medical appointments, food, and emergency rent and mortgage assistance.
• Families are referred by social workers at hospitals including the Children's Hospital Colorado and the Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children.

State of play: Pesmen, a producer of the first three "Harry Potter" movies, started the nonprofit after her husband was diagnosed with advanced colon cancer several years ago.

• She witnessed firsthand how families can struggle to receive support when caring for a sick loved one, so she created an organization specializing in lending a hand.

What they're saying: "Sometimes families become strangers and strangers become families when you're in a crisis," Pesmen says, quoting something she recently heard from a family her nonprofit helped.

What's next: There With Care wants to raise $100,000 during Colorado Gives Day.