Providing some extras to help!
Camp Boggy Creek: A camp for 7-16-year-olds with specific diseases, illnesses, and conditions. Safe, fun, medically sound camp. Free to attend. Funded by donations. In Florida (must provide transportation to). Paul Newman was one of the founders
Feel Better Friends: Custom-made dolls with children's likeness for children suffering from cancer and other illnesses. They have volunteers all over making them. 501 (c)3 non-profit.
Icing Smiles: Volunteers around the U.S. provide those with special needs cakes when they reach milestones, like birthdays. Require 4 weeks minimum notice (unless hospitalized or terminal). 501(c) (3) Non-Profit
Financial Assistance
CancerCare: Financial assistance for children in the U.S. with cancer, based on income eligibility.
DifferentNeedz: Helping those with developmental disabilities obtain necessary equipment & medical services
Family Reach: Helping families with the financial burden of cancer
First Hand: Helping fund a wide variety of medically necessary treatments and equipment for children without insurance. Income based.
Generation Rescue: Help for those on the autism spectrum. Specific guidelines for eligibility
Giving Angels Foundation: Providing help to low-income families with a child with a physical disability
Modest Needs Foundation: Financial help designed to prevent hardworking families from falling into the cycle of poverty
Molly Bear Foundation: Helping families with a child with Trisomy 18 with financial support
Equipment & Tools
Friends of Man: Helping to provide assistance with Wheelchairs, ramps, and medical equipment
Holton's Heroes: A Pediatric Brain Injury Resource
MIRA Foundation: Foundation helps get a Guide Dog to those that need them
Miracle Ear Foundation: Helping those with hearing loss that have no resources available to them
National MPS Society: Financial assistance and support for MPS and ML families.
My Gym Foundation: Financial help for children needing necessary medical equipment
Stepping Stones for Stella: Providing buggies to children with disabilities
Shriners for Children Northern California: Pediatric Orthotic & Prosthetic Services
The Danny Did Foundation: Supporting the Epilepsy community and advancing awareness of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP)
Wheel to Walk Foundation: Helping families obtain adaptive strollers, wheelchairs, shower chairs, and other medical equipment
Help with Travel for Care
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation: Helps with the cost of traveling and lodging to receive care for those that are eligible
Believe in Tomorrow Children's Foundation: Hospital Housing if your child ever has to go to John Hopkins Children's Center
J Kiffen Penry Patient Travel Assistance: Travel expense reimbursement for those eligible families, with a member that has epilepsy, traveling over 50 miles to get care.
The Original Free Charity Cars: Help getting a car to those that need one to travel for medical, are victims of domestic abuse or natural disasters, and much more
