Abbott Nutrition Patient Assistance Program
Offers assistance for nutritional products to patients experiencing financial difficulties.
Ceres Project
Ceres Marin Kitchen, San Rafael, California
Santa Rosa Ceres Kitchen, Santa Rosa, California
Ceres Sebastopol Garden, Sebastopol, California
Young adults volunteer as chefs and gardeners. They learn to cook and enjoy healthy meals made from scratch.
We serve only organic food because it is healthiest for our clients, the environment, and future generations.
We make and deliver with love nourishing meals to our neighbors facing a health crisis like cancer.
Ceres meals are free for those with low incomes.
They provide the nutrition critical to recovery. Up to 80% of cancer patients become malnourished. This reduces stress and isolation and improves long-term health outcomes.
Ceres operates three kitchens and two organic production gardens in the San Francisco Bay Area,
We have trained 13 communities to replicate our model. Ceres affiliates are all across the U.S. and now in Denmark.
Ceres Healing Meals Program
Marin and Sonoma Counties, California
When you’re facing a serious illness, being well-nourished is very important. Ceres delivers meals designed to support you when your health and appetite are compromised.
A Ceres Meal is
WHOLE
When your appetite is compromised, every bite counts. Our meals are delicious and nutrient-rich.
ORGANIC
Healthier—and safer—for you, and for our planet.
LOCAL
The freshest foods, at their peak.
LOW-GLYCEMIC
To support healthy blood sugar levels.
MADE WITH LOVE
By our teen and adult volunteers, because we care about you!
Ceres Meals for Health Program
Marin and Sonoma Counties, California
Ceres offers a limited number of meals for those who don’t qualify for our Healing Meals Program. Buying these meals from Ceres supports your health, and all of Ceres’ programs. Thanks to the generosity of our volunteers and food donors, we are able to provide these delicious organic meals at an affordable price that is less than other delivery services can offer.
Each week, we deliver a bag of freshly-prepared meals to your door.
We can accommodate special dietary needs such as vegetarian and gluten-free.
Ceres Project Affiliates:
Since 2009, we have been supporting communities across the country to replicate the Ceres model. Our Affiliates help us leverage our work to reach thousands more youth and clients every year and are actively partnering with us to continue evolving the model.
Ceres Trained and Inspired Projects:
AMOR Healing Kitchen, Charleston, SC
Food of Love, St. Helena, CA
Pathways Cooks, Summit, NJ
Teen Kitchen Project, Soquel, CA
The Village Project, Bay Village, OH
Caring Kitchen Project
Ukiah, California
The North Coast Opportunities (NCO) Caring Kitchen Project has provided over 2,500 meals to 38 individuals and families with a cancer diagnosis at a time when they are most in need of nutritious food and are least able to purchase and prepare it for themselves. The project engages teen volunteer chefs-in-training, offering them an opportunity to serve their community while they learn about the delicious benefits of healthy food, build leadership and work skills and discover their power to make a difference in the world. Adult volunteers contribute time mentoring teens in the kitchen, growing organic produce, calling clients to check in, and delivering meals directly to clients’ doors. Each delivered meal makes clients feel more connected, loved and cared for, things which are vital to health.
Compassion Can’t Wait
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Provides financial assistance urgently, so single parent families can stay at their child’s bedside.
Culinary Care
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Culinary Care is a nonprofit organization bringing the nourishment of a meal, care, and joy to cancer patients and their families. When fighting cancer, the act of feeding ourselves and our families often becomes a burdensome stressor due to loss of appetite, exhaustion, and changing taste buds. As a result, cancer patients struggle to get the nourishment they need to survive. In fact, 125,000 cancer deaths each year are a direct consequence of malnutrition.
Our solution is simple: provide free meals prepared by local restaurants that are delivered with compassion by a community that cares. To us, it’s all about taking one thing off their plate by simply putting something delicious on it.
Families Forward
Helps with housing assistance, tenant education, career coaching, food pantry items, back-to-school supplies, and Thanksgiving meal baskets.
Feeding America
The Feeding America nationwide network of food banks secures and distributes more than 3 billion meals each year to communities throughout the United States.
Food & Friends
Washington D.C., including areas of Maryland and Virginia.
Provides free meal delivery and nutritional counseling services to cancer patients
Fox Valley Food for Health
Geneva, Illinois
FFH promotes a nutrition-focused community by educating teens and serving those struggling with a health crisis. We strive to keep our community educated, empowered, connected and nourished by providing an environment that is physically, socially, vocationally, intellectually and emotionally nurturing and empowering through nutritious food.
Gift of Hope Breast Cancer Foundation
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Offers financial support (electricity, gas, phone, and groceries) to women in need during the course of their treatment.
Healing Meals Community Project
Bloomfield, Connecticut
Our Organic Meals Program supports individuals dealing with a health crisis and their families, with healthy food, made with love to lessen side effects and increase positive treatment outcomes.
Keep Swimming Foundation
Covers hotel rooms, bedside meals, parking, public transportation, gas, and rent/mortgage payments for families of critically ill patients who require extended inpatient medical care at an accredited USA hospital.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Urgent Need Program
Provides support for pediatric and young adult blood cancer patients, or adult blood cancer patients 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
786 505 3914
Assists pediatric cancer families with medical co-pays, gas, food, and utilities.
Magnolia Meals at Home
Provides nourishing meals at no-cost, delivered to households affected by breast or thyroid cancer.
Meals 4 Health and Healing
Nashville, Tennessee
We are dedicated to raising awareness in our community about healthy lifestyles and nourishing meal preparation. We strive to be a resource for those undergoing cancer treatments by providing guidance, support, and delicious organic meals.
Pinky Swear Foundation
Committed to provide financial support for child cancer patients in rent, mortgages, car payments and repairs, groceries, gas, and childcare.
Positive Community Kitchen
Eugene, Oregon
Every week, volunteer teen and adult chefs come together to prepare organic healing meals for community members fighting life-threatening illnesses.
Revive and Thrive Project
Grand Rapids, Michigan
We support individuals and their families dealing with serious illness with free, delivered, and nutrient-rich meals along with a community of nurturing support. We involve young people as volunteer chefs who can experience the transforming power of serving and nurturing those in need while developing cooking and healthy eating skills. Educating the broader community about the connections between healthy food and healing is at the heart of what we do.
Savor Health
Savor Health offers a comprehensive range of nutrition services for people with cancer and their loved ones. Using the latest technology and research, Savor provides personalized nutrition solutions that meet each patient’s unique needs from prevention to survivorship. Services include individually curated information and resources, one-on-one nutrition counseling with oncology-credentialed registered dietitians and home delivery of meals tailored to individual needs and tastes. Savor is in the business of nourishing the body, mind and spirit of people with cancer. Cancer starves the body of nutrition. Savor Health uses nutrition to fight cancer.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
Provides benefits to low-income individuals and families via an Electronic Benefits Transfer card. This card can be used like a debit card to purchase eligible food in authorized retail food stores.
Visit SNAP’s eligibility page to find out more about eligibility requirements and how benefits are computed. To see if you might be eligible for SNAP benefits, you may also use FNS’s SNAP Eligibility.
The Red Devils
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Funds support in treatment transportation, family support (meals, groceries, house cleaning, utilities, rent/mortgage, and childcare/respite care), and medical services/treatment-related therapies.
There are other federal nutrition assistance programs.
Learn more here: www.ssa.gov/pubs/EN-05-10100.pdf
Local non-profit foodbanks can also help with food: www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-local-foodbank
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