Adam’s Angels Ministry
979 836 0955
Provides care and comfort through physical, emotional, financial and spiritual support. We take our name ‘Angels’ seriously as we assist those in need and band with others who join our efforts in the crusade against childhood cancer.
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation (ALSF)
866 333 1213
Raises money for and awareness of childhood cancer causes — especially research into new treatments and cures — and to encourage and empower others, especially children, to get involved and make a difference for children with cancer.
Childhood Cancer Symposium is a free annual conference for families of kids with cancer.
Travel For Care Fund offers assistance to eligible families who need financial assistance for travel for childhood cancer treatment at medical institutions in the US and Canada. This fund may include help with transportation, lodging, and meals. Applications must be received from a social worker or another medical representative.
Childhood Cancer Treatment Journal – ALSF provides a free treatment journal to families of childhood cancer. Helps parents stay organized and keep track of important information.
Hero Ambassador Program involves family members of childhood cancer heroes who choose to get more involved with ALSF.
Parent to Parent Network provides the opportunity for families to connect with one another through emails, phone calls, or in person.
Childhood Cancer Database Project aims to better understand how childhood cancer affects families. The goal is to measure the personal and economic impact of childhood cancer and find ways to support families through the journey.
The ALSF SuperSibs program provides online activities, the opportunity to be an ambassador, and parent resources.
American Childhood Cancer Organization (ACCO)
Provides information for children and adolescents with cancer and their families, and advocates for their needs.
ACCO offers free books and resources on all aspects of childhood cancer.
Local affiliates provide direct support to patients and families through hospital and community based programs such as face-to-face and online support groups and childhood cancer camps. Affiliates may also provide emergency financial assistance for rent or mortgage payments, car repairs, transportation, pre-paid gas cards, groceries, parking, and more.
American Children’s Cancer Foundation (ACCF)
855 222 3428
Mission is to improve, empower, and to bring joy to the lives of children and their families affected by cancer. ACCF adapts its support to fit each child’s needs from education to assistance with treatment, recovery and family support.
Andrew McDonough Be Positive Foundation
302 563 8389
Honors the life of Andrew McDonough who battled leukemia, septic shock and complications of childhood cancer for 167 days before passing away on July 14, 2007, at the age of 14. Andrew’s B+ blood type became his family’s and friends’ motto throughout his fight against childhood cancer – to “Be Positive”.
The B+ Foundation is about Kids Helping Kids Fight Cancer — raising money through dance marathons, 5Ks, T-shirt sales and more, to provide financial and emotional support to families of children with cancer nationwide. The B+ Foundation also funds critical, cutting-edge childhood cancer research.
Arielle Anacker Cancer Foundation, Inc.
Mission is to raise funds for needy pediatric cancer families to help them pay their bills, to raise funds to support Ewing’s Sarcoma research, and to support the four memorial funds named after Arielle.
The Foundation assists children with any kind of cancer, ages 0-22 years with their essential living expenses, medical treatment, and medications relating to the child’s cancer).
Arms Wide Open
Provides monthly grants to families suffering hardship due to their child’s cancer diagnosis. Application on website. Social work referral.
Bright Spot Network
Our MissionBright Spot Network provides young cancer survivors who are parents of small children with a safe space for individual and familial healing, recovery, and reconnection.
We focus on young parents and guardians caring for young children at the time of diagnosis, including those diagnosed during pregnancy.
Our Values
We value empathy, equity and justice. Our community is built on trust and authentic connection. We hold hope and healing alongside grief and loss.
Who We Serve
Bright Spot Network serves families where a parent, or primary caregiver, of a preschool-age kid (ages 0-6 or pregnant at the time of diagnosis) has cancer. We serve people from diagnosis to survivorship, those in active treatment and living with cancer, understanding that a cancer “journey” can be long for the patient and their family.
Butterfly Fund
Provides emergency financial assistance to families of children in treatment at partnering medical facilities.
The Butterfly Fund covers the following types of expenses:
- Rent and mortgage payments, utility bills, car loan and car insurance payments
- Travel expenses associated with treatment away from home
- Items not covered by insurance or other means such as special medications, long-term rehabilitation services, hearing aids, wigs and prosthetic devices, home health services, etc.
- Professional counseling services that best support the family’s needs: individual counseling, couples counseling, family counseling, and grief counseling
- Funeral expenses
Camps for Kids, Teens, Young Adults and Their Families
The Nancy’s List of free camps includes camps in beautiful places all over the country, along with photos and videos of camp life.
The Yale Child Study Center recently found that those children who attend camp showed improved confidence, higher self-esteem, a greater sense of independence, and an increased interest in social activities. Their research revealed that children’s stress related to their illness decreased as a result of the camp experience.
Cancer Care
800 813 HOPE (4673)
Offers a financial assistance programs such as the Komen Treatment Assistance Fund and Touching Hearts Program for cancer-related costs such as transportation, home care, child care, and medication.
Cancer in the Family Relief Fund
Encourages and facilitates grants to children whose parent or guardian is struggling with a diagnosis of cancer
These grants support the children’s extracurricular activities so that they may feel some sense of normalcy as their parent focuses on treatment and recovery.
Cancer affects the whole family, not just the person with cancer – and can change the whole dynamic of a family. While children and teenagers must face fear and uncertainty as their parent undergoes treatment, they may also be required to take on more roles and responsibility. CFRF hopes to lesson some of the burden and reduce stress by making it possible for children to either continue in regular extracurricular activities so that their routines are not too disrupted or perhaps try something new that can act as a distraction.
No matter what, a child or teenager has enough to worry about without also having to worry about the cost of their activity. It’s ok to ask for help.
Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF)
Mission is to improve the treatment, quality of life, and long-term outlook for children with brain and spinal cord tumors through research, support, education, and advocacy for families and survivors.
Free publication, A Resource Guide for Parents of Children with Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors.
Co-sponsors conferences, teleconferences, and webinars for families, survivors, and health care professionals.
Offers a toll-free support line where you may speak with pediatric neuro-oncology social workers.
Family 2 Family Network allows families to share their experiences with those having similar concerns.
Hosts and sponsors events, such as the Kids Cruise or Brain Tumor Week at Camp Sunshine, which offer families fun while building relationships within the community.
Funds research to identify the causes of childhood brain tumors to find effective treatments.
Children’s Cancer Recovery Foundation
717 688 7940
Provides emergency bridge payments directly to the utility companies and landlords
Children’s Health Insurance Program
Provides free or low-cost health coverage for children age 18 and younger whose families earn too much income to qualify for Medicaid but cannot afford to purchase private health insurance coverage.
States have considerable flexibility to establish income eligibility rules for CHIP but children enrolling in the program must be otherwise uninsured.
Callers will be referred to the CHIP program in their state for further information about what the program covers, who is eligible, and the minimum qualifications.
Children’s Leukemia Research Association
Patient Aid Program offers limited funds (up to $1,500 per year) to assist with certain treatments, services and prescriptions; funds are available on a first-come, first-serve basis.
Matching Dollar Program matches up to $1,500 in donations raised by the applicant, family or friends during a specific time period
Childrens Organ Transplant Association
Strives to make the transplant journey less stressful for patients and their families.
Offers guidance to families to pay for medical expenses for a child undergoing a transplant.
Provides information to the family’s community to assure them that the funds raised for transplant-related expenses are raised ethically and used appropriately.
Staff travels to meet with patients, volunteers, and transplant professionals, in addition to an in-house staff that is in regular communication with our families.
Children’s Treehouse Foundation
Provides hospital-based, cancer-focused, psychosocial intervention training and programming dedicated to improving the emotional health, stress, anxiety, and fear of children whose parents have cancer.
Circle of Care
Provides emotional and financial support to Connecticut families through programs and services that meet the unique and challenging needs of families facing pediatric cancer treatment … where and when it is needed most … from day-of-diagnosis hospital care packages to at-home Dream Room Makeovers, from peer mentoring to financial assistance, our programs are here to help.
Our services are available to all children who are residents of Connecticut, regardless of need. While most are treated at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital and Connecticut Children’s Medical Center – the only two pediatric cancer treatment centers in the state – we also support children from Connecticut who are treated elsewhere in the country.
Clayton Dabney Foundation
Assists families who have children in the last stages of terminal cancer, to create everlasting memories.
Cory’s Crusaders
From assistance with medical bills to helping make a child’s dream come true with a special gift or trip, our goal is to assist in any way a family sees as their greatest area of need.
We help these families with day to day expenses that many may not think of … gas to get to and from appointments, parking and tolls, child care for their other children, etc., as well as insurance payments, utilities, food or mortgage payments.
Emmanuel Cancer Foundation
(908) 322-4323
The Emmanuel Cancer Foundation provides New Jersey families facing the crisis of pediatric cancer a place to turn for comfort and support through professional in-home counseling free-of-charge. Through our four Regional Centers, we work with volunteers to collect and distribute groceries, toys, clothing, household items, and birthday and holiday gifts. Our emergency financial assistance can help families with urgent needs such as paying rent, utility, phone and insurance bills.
Family Reach
973 394 1411
Provides financial assistance for pediatric and young adult cancer patients. Helps with mortgage/rent, utilities, auto related expenses, child care, treatment-related travel, hospital parking, prescription medications, and other ancillary medical costs.
First Hand Foundation
816 201 1569
Helps with funding for children with health needs when insurance and other financial resources have been used. This funding goes towards clinical necessities (procedures, medicine, therapy), medical equipment (wheelchairs, assistive technology equipment, care devices, hearing aids), travel expenses (lodging, gas), and vehicle modifications (lifts, ramps, and transfer boards).
Friends4Michael
845 401 8689
Provides supplementary financial assistance to families, guardians, or caregivers with financial needs resulting from expenses associated with the child’s brain tumor treatment.
This program covers specific non-medical costs. Direct medical expenses will not be covered.
The Family Assistance Committee (FAC) within the Friends4Michael (F4M) Foundation provides grants up to $500 per family, guardian or caregiver.
Families are eligible to receive one Family Assistance grant every 12 months.
Gianna Nicole
718 644 4431
Provides financial assistance to pediatric cancer families undergoing cancer treatment (ages 21 and under).
Gilda’s Club Metro Detroit
Kids Living with Cancer Group
Thursday, November 2, 5:00 pm
This group is for kids (age 6-12 years) who are diagnosed with cancer themselves and would like to meet others diagnosed. This group uses a variety of activities to help guide and support kids through their cancer experience and is led by a licensed clinician. This program takes place online in Gilda’s Virtual Community.
Hands for Holly
Co-founded by 14-year-old Holly Wade as she battled brain cancer. Our mission as a 501(c)3 nonprofit is to provide financial support to families in need who are caring for a child with cancer.
Our vision is to provide a continuum of assistance for families caring for a child with cancer through direct financial assistance and access to financial planning, navigation, and education.
We provide guidance and funding for essential expenses (i.e. mortgage, utilities, transportation, etc.) to alleviate financial stress and give families the ability to focus on accessing care, getting well, and being at their child’s bedside when they need them the most.
Hugs for Brady Foundation
Sherrie and Michael Wells started the Hugs for Brady Foundation in 2009, shortly after their 13-month-old son Brady Michael was diagnosed with Non-Differentiated Acute Leukemia, a very rare form of leukemia. In 2010, Brady passed away at 23 months old, after he had bravely battled the disease for ten months.
Our moral compass has directed us to support children with cancer in any and every way possible.
IronMattFamily Assistance Program
Available to families in need of assistance who have a child undergoing treatment for a Brain or Central Nervous System (CNS) cancer.
We are one of only a few foundations that gives direct financial assistance to families regardless of their socio-economic status, the type of brain tumor (malignant or benign) or the progress of the disease.
Isaiah Alonso Foundation
270 300 5329
Provides financial assistance to families of kids with cancer.
Jay Ross Foundation
571 305 2711
Provides assistance to families who must travel long distances for treatment of childhood cancer.
Kasie Helpz Kids
Assists families with up to $500 per year in reimbursements for co-pays, medications, and counseling services during their child’s battle with cancer.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Urgent Need Program
866 446 7377
Provides pediatric and young adult blood cancer patients who are enrolled in clinical trials with acute financial assistance.
Includes rent, mortgage, lodging, utilities, childcare, elder care, food, transportation, car repair, car insurance, phone service, and acute dental work.
Live Like Bella Foundation
As a family, we have experienced the unbearable pain caused by losing a child to cancer. While we belong to a club that no one wants to be a part of, we continue to raise awareness and offer emotional and financial support to families affected by childhood cancer.
Live Like Bella® was founded in 2013 with the mission to help children with cancer maintain the same love for life that Bella had. To “Live Like Bella” means to serve and help others. As Bella’s family, we will continue to honor her legacy by serving and helping children with cancer.
National Children’s Cancer Society
Provide an online support network for parents of children with cancer, educational materials, and financial assistance for treatment-related expenses. Printable publications. We also partner with Agility, a national provider of discount prescription drug cards.
The NCCS’s Emergency Assistance Fund provides $300 per year to families who have a child that has been in-patient or away from home for 30 consecutive days within the past three months. Assistance may be used for mortgage, rent, utility payments, childcare, health insurance premiums, car expenses or treatment-related expenses such as meals away from home, prescriptions, and parking.
Oliver Patch Project
Empowering Children with Pediatric Cancers through the Power of Patches!
Pickles Group
Kids Supporting Kids Impacted by Parental Cancer
Are you navigating a cancer diagnosis while caring for school-aged kids? We’re here for you.
At Pickles Group, we know that having a parent or caregiver with cancer can be a lonely, isolating experience. That’s why our mission is to provide free peer-to-peer support and resources to kids affected by their parent or guardian’s cancer. Pickles kids strengthen resilience, have fun with friends who get them, and heal along the way.
How Do We Do It?
Our youth programs are designed by our Chief Clinical Program Officer, a leading child therapist and Child Life Specialist. Pickles Group programs are facilitated by trained volunteers who have experience working with youth and backgrounds in education, child development, and other related fields. Our approach is grounded in behavioral science and research that shows that kids are more likely to thrive through their parent’s cancer when they have access to three things:
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Open, age-appropriate information about cancer
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Coping skills to help them identify and process their feelings in healthy ways
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Connection with peers who share their lived experience
Does the Program Work?
See what kids and parents are saying about our program’s positive impact on their lives.
Who Do We Serve?
We serve school-aged kids and teens enrolled in 1st through 12th grade, generally between the ages of 6-18.
How Do I Sign Up?
Complete our Youth Enrollment Form, refer a family, or contact us for more information.
PinkySwear Foundation
952 972 9600
Eases the financial and emotional impacts experienced by children with cancer and their families by providing basic needs support during a very challenging time.
Ronald McDonald Houses
Assists families with sick children in finding comfort and support when they need it most. These houses are home environments providing support and resources that help keep families together. This allows families to face the weight of illness together, allows children to get the best care, and provides services for families including home cooked meals, private bedrooms, and playrooms for children.
We have 290 local chapters in 57 countries and regions.
Smiles for Sophie Forever
From the time of her diagnosis until Sophie’s death, the heart-wrenching emotional strain was compounded by the financial burden that accompanied Sophie’s care and treatment. Marc and Emily realized how fortunate they were to have financial support which allowed them to do things for Sophie which they would not have otherwise been able to do. Consequently, providing financial assistance to families is one part of the Smiles For Sophie Forever mission.
Spring Forest Qigong
Providing free Qigong healing sessions for children who have been diagnosed with cancer.
For decades, Master Lin and his healing staff have worked closely with children and their families, helping to restore their hope for a brighter future. So, they know how many families are searching for anything that will help to heal their children. They also understand that these same families might also be unable to afford the best alternative and complementary treatment they seek.
Master Lin and Spring Forest Qigong hold a deep love for children. Quite simply, we believe they are the future. Our healing mission is to give you and your child hope for a brighter future. And that is why we are providing FREE Qigong healing sessions for children who have been diagnosed with cancer. Please contact us simply by calling us at +1-952-593-5555. We will do our best to accommodate.
StillStrong Foundation
We created the Still Strong Foundation in 2015 to give grants to families affected by childhood cancers. We want them to spend less time worrying about non-medical bills, like mortgages and utilities, and more time supporting their child to a victorious fight against cancer.
The Jay Ross Foundation
Provides assistance to families who must travel long distances for treatment of childhood cancer.
The National Children’s Cancer Society
Families turn to us for help navigating the daunting world of childhood cancer, from financial to emotional support and much more. We strive to improve the quality of life for childhood cancer patients and their families worldwide.
Pediatric Oncology Program offers direct financial support including during treatment, transportation to and from treatment, long distance telephone cards, lodging during treatment, health insurance premiums, and medical expenses not covered by insurance.
NCCS offers free publications for order or download from their Web site, as well as access to helpful videos and educational telephone conferences.
Care to Share Cancer Connection Program provides a private network for parents, caregivers and survivors of childhood cancer to connect, share and offer support to one another.
Global Outreach Program partners with pharmaceutical companies to distribute donated cancer treatment drugs and medical supplies around the world.
Beyond The Cure provides the most up-to-date information on survivorship to help survivors and their families adapt and celebrate life after diagnosis.
United Healthcare Children’s Foundation
Dedicated to enhancing the quality of children’s lives through much needed medical grants. These medical grants help improve access to medical services and items that are not covered, or not fully covered, by a family’s current commercial health insurance plan. A child must be 16 years old or younger and covered by a commercial health insurance plan and diagnosed with a current or ongoing medical need, be receiving treatment by a qualified medical practitioner in the US, and meet certain financial criteria to qualify.
Grants may be provided for medical services costs, medication costs, medical supplies and equipment, costs associated with transplant, air and ground transportation for medical appointments.
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