In 2006, Lisa Flaxman, Founder of musiKids® founded musiKares, a public CD drive to benefit adult and pediatric cancer patients. Proceeds from Ms. Flaxman's book, Glances at Time: A Young Mother's Journey with Breast Cancer (2008), help fund musiKares and the Georgetown Hospital's Lombardi Comprehensive Center's Arts & Humanities Program.

Over the years, musiKares has donated over 3,000 CDs and 50 CD players to the Georgetown Hospital's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center and Child Life. The donations have had a huge impact on improving patient and staff quality of life.

As someone who underwent treatment for breast cancer at the Lombardi Cancer Center, Ms. Flaxman knew the importance of using music as a means to help get people through a very hard time. She experienced the silence and anxiety that patients feel. Drawing on her connections to music and the community through musiKids, she started musiKares to make music more accessible to patients with the hope that it might relieve some stress.

In a letter personally thanking Flaxman for her donations, Nancy Pierce Morgan, Director of the Arts and Humanities Program at Georgetown University Hospital, stated, “An inpatient who was very distressed over a setback in her condition happily listened to Tina Turner, Grover Washington, and the Beatles. She said it made all the difference in her ability to cope with her unexpected and stressful week in the hospital.”

Flaxman and musiKares were featured, periodically, on NBC, Fox 5 Live, News Channel 8, ClearChannel's Women with Vision, XM Satellite's Life's Work with Lisa Belkin, Indiana NPR, Washington Business Journal, Washington Post, SmartCEO, Montgomery County Gazette and numerous other media and print publications.