Recently-retired NASCAR star Dale Earnhardt Jr. and his wife have created the Dale and Amy Earnhardt Fund to benefit the Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children's Hospital, according to USA Today.
Mr. Earnhardt has visited the hospital several times since 2014, largely due to his sponsor Nationwide Insurance, the hospital's namesake. Earlier this year, a rehabilitation room in the hospital was named for Mr. Earnhardt and his wife.
The Dale Jr. Foundation, Mr. Earnhardt's charitable organization, is making a donation of $88,888.88 to the new fund.
Nickole Delaney, whose daughter has cerebral palsy and is a patient at Nationwide, first met the Earnhardts at the hospital three years ago.
"I think Dale and Amy are two of the most caring people I have met," Ms. Delaney said, according to USA Today. "They are both selfless and care for all the children in the hospital. They are two of the most special people to enter my daughter's life and they've spent so much time with her since they first met and that relationship is still going strong. They have changed her life for the better."