Resources

Supports the pediatric and young adult cancer communities, along with bereaved families, through camps, retreats, virtual programming, scholarships, and recreational events. Emergency grants assist impacted families in the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia (e.g., rent/mortgage, utilities, car repairs, funeral costs).

Facilitates dream bedroom makeovers for children with pediatric cancer within one year of treatment, ages 2-19. Eligible applicants must reside in a state with an active volunteer chapter.

Offers educational information, resources, local chapters, and support groups to connect all impacted by spina bifida. Facilitates a private Facebook support group for spina bifida parents and caregivers. Supports clinical research and promotes advocacy efforts.

Facilitates a private Facebook support group offering peer support, encouragement, and resources for the spinal cord injury community.

Awards financial grants to individuals who sustained spinal cord injuries through sports or athletic recreation activities. Funds can be used for adaptive sports or fitness equipment, home modifications, therapies, or vehicle modifications.

Facilitates a private Facebook support group for those living with spinal cord injuries and disorders. The forum is open to caregivers, immediate family members, and close supporters.

Offers educational information and resources for spinal cord injury and brain injury survivors, including listings of support groups, hospitals, and rehabilitation programs. Created by a legal firm, the site also defines legal assistance options.

Provides multi-media learning opportunities, legal support, employment navigational assistance, and resources for the spinal cord injury community. Offers peer mentoring and a social networking community platform.

Manufactures adaptive and customizable wheelchair and bicycle wheels and related components. Offers a Help Hope Live partner discount of 10% off products with code: HOPE10.

Grants wishes for eligible adults with stage 4 cancer, age 18 and over. Examples include gatherings with loved ones, family trips, and special excursions.

Offers prosthetic limb financial assistance for individuals without insurance or whose policies exclude prostheses.

Provides spiritually based support and resources to the cancer community. Sends faith-inspired gift baskets and facilitates a Facebook healing prayer group.

Supports adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients with educational information, a virtual discussion series, and topic-specific resources (e.g., survivorship, wellness, fertility issues, caregiving, mental health, advocacy). Fosters community building for AYAs through social meetups, region-specific Facebook community groups, and an annual convention.

Promotes educational information and resources regarding mental health and substance abuse. Offers 24/7 helpline support and community organization referrals.

Fulfills dream wishes of children, ages 3-18, who have serious or chronic illnesses, developmental or intellectual challenges, or are victims of abuse. Examples include family trips, shopping sprees, outdoor play equipment, electronics, and adaptive medical or therapeutic equipment.

Offers educational information and resources for breast cancer patients and caregivers, including a helpline for navigational assistance. Offers financial assistance for eligible individuals to help offset general living costs (e.g., rent, utilities, food, childcare, medical travel). Facilitates private Facebook support groups. Champions advocacy and clinical research initiatives.

Provides the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) community with assistive and adaptive equipment and technologies (e.g., communication devices, mobility equipment, voice and message banking, home automation). Facilitates virtual community gatherings for sharing and peer connections. Helps finance experiential adventures and caregiver respite programs (exclusive to Iowa, Michigan, Nebraska, and South Dakota). Advocates for legislative initiatives and collaborative research and development efforts for technological solutions.

Matches collegiate athletic teams to children with serious illness or disability (ages 5-16). Two-year mentoring relationships foster social and psychological benefits for children, families, student athletes, and coaching staff members.

Offers support and programs for the Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) community. Administers financial assistance and resources for equipment, medical travel, accessible vehicles, home or vehicle modifications, and emergency needs. Provides navigational guidance regarding government insurance programs.

Helps Pennsylvania residents with disabilities to identify and explore assistive technology, tools, and equipment. Offers expert advice, resources, and specialized items (e.g., re-used equipment, phone equipment, 3D printed devices, vision and hearing communication technologies). Manages a lending library to test tools and technology before purchasing.

Facilitates inclusive video gaming opportunities to prioritize accessibility and reduce isolation for members of the disability community. A peer counseling program addresses each player’s individual needs to maximize their success and social connections.

Sponsors comprehensive disability rights advocacy initiatives and programs including scholarships and internships. Works to advance the political and economic power of all with disabilities.

Provides resources, support, and educational information for all impacted by pediatric cancer. Offers free helpful books and medical play kits for families. Promotes childhood cancer advocacy, awareness, and policy initiatives.

Issues financial aid for prescriptions and treatment costs associated with select rare, chronic, or life-threatening diseases.

Provides financial assistance with uninsured medical bills associated with pediatric life-threatening conditions. Private high school scholarships are awarded to select students who exemplify kindness and a dedication to community service in Cincinnati, Ohio, Northern Kentucky, or Southeastern Indiana.

Offers resources and financial assistance (e.g., prescriptions, mortgage/rent, medical travel) for families of children with cancer. Facilitates virtual support groups for diagnosed children, siblings, parents, and bereaved families. Spreads awareness and works with school partners to raise funds for research. Matches impacted youth (B+ Heroes) with participating school groups for ongoing supportive relationships and inclusion in B+ events.

Supports the cystic fibrosis (CF) community with educational information, advocacy efforts, resources, and financial aid to help with associated and unmet costs (e.g., medical care, CF or transplant medications, durable medical equipment, counseling, temporary relocation, medical travel). Offers college scholarships for applicants living with CF.

Offers educational information, resources, family stories, and advocacy opportunities for all impacted by congenital heart defects. Funds clinical research to advance the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of cardiac defects.

Provides comprehensive information and resources for families impacted by pediatric chronic pain. Offers an annual academic scholarship.

Provides bereavement support and resources for families who have suffered the loss of a child. Nationwide programs include in-person and virtual support groups, and topic-specific online chat rooms.

Provides financial assistance to individuals and families to help manage cystic fibrosis (CF) related expenses (e.g., medical needs, prescriptions, transplant-related costs).

Raises malignant primary brain tumor awareness and provides financial assistance to help offset medical and living expenses for qualified applicants. Grant recipients can access a complimentary consultation with a registered dietitian.

Grants charitable wishes for medically verified critically and chronically ill children, ages 3-18. Eligibility is not limited to life-threatening conditions, but candidates must reside in a state with an active volunteer chapter. Wish examples include celebrity or athlete meet-and-greets, family trips, or special gifts.

Works to increase awareness regarding Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD). Offers educational information, a dedicated Helpline, a directory of healthcare professionals, caregiver support, advocacy initiatives, an online discussion community, storytelling opportunities, virtual support groups, and a Teens Council program.

Facilitates peer mentoring matches between breast cancer patients and survivors. Experienced mentor guides offer personalized support and encouragement.

Supports central Pennsylvania kidney disease patients. Offers educational information, advocacy, and peer mentoring. Provides transportation reimbursement for qualified individuals on dialysis, and emergency needs grants for transplant and dialysis patients (e.g., food, medications, related costs).

Offers support, resources, and recognition for special needs caregivers. Distributes care packages, posts shared stories, and facilitates a private Facebook support group.

Issues physical therapy scholarships for eligible uninsured or under-insured individuals with spinal cord injuries or brain injuries.

Offers educational information, wellness resources, an online discussion platform, and in-person events for Parkinson’s disease patients and caregivers. Supports scientific research and champions advocacy and policy initiatives.

Serves as an online health community platform for diagnosis or topic-specific groups. Moderated group forums allow for peer encouragement, discussion threads, storytelling, and resource sharing.

Offers a nationwide database of free or low-cost medical and dental clinics. Promotes health insurance resources.

Provides educational information, guidance, and support for childhood cancer patients and families. Financial assistance is available for emergency needs during extended inpatient care (e.g., mortgage, rent, utilities, insurance premiums, prescriptions, meals, parking, medical travel, treatment-related lodging). Facilitates a Facebook support group and a youth peer mentoring program. Grants academic scholarships to survivors.

Provides educational information via handbook guides for the neuroblastoma community. Facilitates a Facebook support group. Raises awareness and supports neuroblastoma cancer research. Champions advocacy and public policy initiatives.

Offers in-person (select cities) and virtual (nationwide) art-education photography classes for children with pediatric cancer, ages 6-18. Charitably supports childhood cancer research projects.

Spotlights personal narrative stories from cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, and family members. Offers oncology support articles and facilitates virtual patient educational events.

Creates professional, customized superhero posters with short character stories for children living with medical, physical or emotional challenges, ages 4-18. Volunteer artists create one-of-a-kind representations of every child’s unique resilience and courage.

Provides financial assistance to eligible families of pediatric cancer patients in select regions of central and northeast Pennsylvania. Aid can help offset emergency needs, general living costs, or unmet medical expenses.

Facilitates a private Facebook support group for the spinal cord injury and disorder community. Offers peer support, resources, and educational information.

Offers support and resources for families who experience the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). Distributes care packages, offers wellness tools, and facilitates virtual parent gatherings and support groups. Availability of services may vary at partner hospitals located (at the time of publication) in Delaware, Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

Provides resources, support, advocacy opportunities, and educational information for the pediatric transplant community. Facilitates monthly virtual caregiver meetings in partnership with the organization, Enduring Hearts. Offers a private community portal for peer connections.

Offers discounted medical relocation apartment rentals for those receiving transplant care at Seattle, Washington area hospitals.

Connects all members of the transplant community with educational opportunities, a bi-monthly magazine, advocacy efforts, and special events. Organizes the Transplant Games of America (TGA), an annual athletic competition and donation awareness festival. Honors organ, tissue, and eye donors through a reflection room on display at the TGA, with a permanent virtual counterpart. The Foundation is committed to increasing donor registry numbers.

Offers educational information, awareness and advocacy opportunities, scholarships, and online support groups for organ and tissue transplant candidates, recipients, care partners, and donor families. Facilitates the United Airlines Travel program, providing free medical air travel using donated travel program miles. Member chapters provide local support for the transplant community.

Provides educational resources and support for the organ transplant community. Offers online discussion forums, virtual support groups, and an online health tracker.

Offers support, educational resources, and community connections for traumatic physical injury survivors and caregivers. Facilitates online support groups, trauma center-based support groups, family classes, peer visitation, and virtual NextSteps recovery classes.

Issues grants for eligible New Jersey residents who have sustained a traumatic brain injury. Sample uninsured or unmet expenses for assistance include assistive technologies, physical, occupational, and speech therapies, prescriptions, home modifications, neuropsychology, and cognitive therapy.

Issues grants for eligible Kentucky residents who have sustained a brain injury and lack adequate funding for related needs. Sample eligible expenses include case management, day or residential services, respite care, vocational or employment services, therapies, and psychological care.

Provides the cancer community with multi-media resources, materials, tools, and educational information regarding legal and practical topics (e.g., finances, employment, insurance, legal matters, advocacy, estate planning, caregiving, wellness).

Offers resources, para-athlete opportunities, and support groups for individuals with spinal cord injuries, disorders causing paralysis, and neuromuscular diseases. Facilitates a peer visitation program and distributes care packs to those newly injured in Southern California. Issues quality-of-life grants (e.g., adaptive equipment, vehicle and home modifications, therapeutic and recreational activities, return-to-employment needs). Manages an equipment and supply exchange forum.

Provides an online community for all impacted by brain injury, offering educational information, encouragement, support, and resources.