Fundraising Campaigns For Medical Expenses

Paul is seven years old and living with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Fundraising helps his family pay for medical testing, treatment and trips to a certified DMD care clinic.

Keep Hope Alive

Caitlin had two strokes with no known cause.Today, she fundraises for exercise-based therapy to maintain mobility. "What gives me hope? Believing I can walk and talk again."

Make Strides After Injury

John is an Air Force airman and firefighter who was paralyzed in a diving accident. He is making progress with his mobility through fundraising. "Small achievements give him his independence back."

Ease Your Burden

Louie is raising money to prepare for a lifesaving kidney transplant, including the cost of insurance co-pays, follow-up care, and a lifetime of daily anti-rejection medications.

Live Well After Transplant

Ronnie is a father of two who received a lifesaving heart transplant in 2016 with help from community fundraising. Today, he fundraises for post-transplant expenses including medical appointment co-pays and immunosuppressants.

Exceed Expectations

With support from his community, social activist and family man Henry exceeded his $15,000 initial fundraising goal. He received a lifesaving transplant from his sister in March 2016.

Get Cutting-Edge Treatment

Anna is fundraising for a transplant that could help her stop the effects of multiple sclerosis. "I've received letters, cards and valentines. It is so...encouraging and strengthening!"

Protect The Gift Of Life

Army veteran Ken received a heart transplant in January 2016. He fundraises with Help Hope Live for a lifetime of post-transplant uninsured costs, including a 60-pill daily regimen. “Every day is a new day to make progress.”

A New Life

“Three years after transplant, I am fully recovered, starting a new business, and meeting new people. The most precious beginning of all is becoming a grandparent!”

Reunited by Hope

“As I got ready to go on dialysis, my childhood friend offered me her kidney. She saved my life! She will always be my hero and ‘sister.’”

A Happy Re-Birthday

“One year after transplant, I am engaged to be married and am in complete remission. This year, I will celebrate my birthday and my re-birthday.”

Living Legacies

“My wait for a transplant has been nearly 1,000 days. My donor is out there somewhere. My gratitude for that gift will be shown in the way I use it to make a positive impact in the world.”

Help Hope Live Mission

As a national 501(c)(3) nonprofit, our mission is to support community-based fundraising for people with unmet medical and related expenses due to cell and organ transplants or catastrophic injuries and illnesses. Your gift to Help Hope Live helps us provide assistance to people who need it most in a meaningful and tangible way.

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Help Hope Live brings communities together in tax-exempt fundraising efforts to help patients and families pay medical bills and access treatments. With your help we can make sure more people have access to the medical services they need.

Ways You Can Help

Help Hope Live saved my life. I could afford to get the best medical treatment available and focus on getting well rather than stressing about finances.

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When I needed to pay for my bills, they paid them or reimbursed me right away. No delays.

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Help Hope Live has enabled my family to have a sense of financial security while dealing with a serious health issue.

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Help Hope Live brought family and friends together and relieved much of the financial burden of the transplant.

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Help Hope Live has taken a lot of the stress away from wondering how I am going to pay for all of this surgery.

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The staff have always been uplifting, encouraging and helpful. They've relieved me of the burden of handling and managing funds necessary for further medical health.

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Very supportive and helpful. Easy.

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Help Hope Live gave me hope and the belief that I would be able to handle the cost and time away from home after a transplant.

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I have many friends fundraising through their companies that are matching contributions because Help Hope Live is helping me. You guys are awesome!

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You all have helped me quite a bit and gave me hope that an impossible surgery might be possible now.

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If I didn't have this fund with this amount of money in it they would not list me (for transplant). There's no way I could do it by myself. Thank you Help Hope Live.

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Help Hope Live gave me hope and confidence.

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The name Help Hope Live says it all. The team was so helpful, answering all my questions and giving me great advice. It's nice to know the money I raised is safe with an organization that has my best interest.

Mara Wiles

Help Hope Live is a huge relief to me during a very stressful time.

Anne Mackintosh

If it were not for Help Hope Live, my son would never have received his transplant.

Betty Pipia

Thanks for all your hard work and support. Your organization made it possible for us to have much less stress around this whole ordeal.

Gustafsson-Hebel Family

Thank you for the tremendous support your beautiful organization has provided our family over the last few months as we have begun our fundraising efforts to support our son Ethan.

Alexia & Scott Kadish

I am certain that my son would not be where he is today without your help. He would not have the quality of life and the independence that he so dearly dreamed of either.

Jennifer Kayler

I have the care I need because of Help Hope Live. It’s as simple as that.

Lyena Strelkoff

You were an encouraging breath of fresh air in these dark financial times.

Ron Donnini

I deeply appreciate all of the advice and assistance that the whole group at HelpHOPELive has supplied to me. This organization makes me feel like I am a part of a much larger family than I have here in North Carolina.

Roy Horne

Help Hope Live has been the light guiding us on this very dark road ahead. Thank you again and best of everything with your continued efforts to spinal cord injury patients and others.

Chris and Bill Kurnath and Family

"We encourage every transplant patient we speak to to make the phone call to Help Hope Live and check out helphopelive.org. We know that other crowdfunding sites are for-profit organizations and that they can jeopardize a transplant candidate's insurance status."

Debbie Gordon, Social Worker

Help Hope Live Fundraising

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The Help Hope Live Advantage

✔	One-On-One Support
	We'll pair you with one of our expert Fundraising Coordinators to help you fundraise.

✔	Nonprofit Status
	We offer your community a way to donate that is tax deductible to the full extent allowed by law.

✔	Online Donation Page
	Share your story, collect donations and receive messages of support through a customizable online campaign page.

✔	Easy To Submit Bills
	Once you are approved to work with Help Hope Live, you are eligible to submit allocation requests to us for your unmet medical bills.

✔	Keep Your Medicaid*
	Because Help Hope Live is the administrator of the funds you raise, they won't jeopardize your eligibility for coverage.

*Guidelines may vary by state.