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Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Cancer Resources
 

Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Treatment Journal

Alex's Lemonade Stand is happy to provide families of children with cancer a free treatment journal. The journal includes a treatment tracker section, symptoms and side effects section, appointment schedule section, questions for healthcare provider section, personal notes and thoughts section, and a calendar section.


Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation Caring Bridge

CaringBridge® is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization offering free personalized websites to those wishing to stay in touch with family and friends during significant life events. Our mission is to bring together a global community of care powered by the love of family and friends in an easy, accessible and private way.

CaringBridge is a free service and anyone can set up a page. Authors quickly and easily create personalized websites that display journal entries and photographs. Well-wishers visit the website to read updates and leave messages in the Guestbook.


Housing Services

Ronald McDonald House

The Ronald McDonald House provides services including:

  • Ronald McDonald House provides home away from home for families of ill children receiving treatment at nearby hospitals
  • Ronald McDonald Family Room extends the comfort of RMH into the hospital and gives families a place to have a warm meal, relax, and talk with other parents
  • For more information visit RMHC's site.

Hosts for Hospitals
Hosts for Hospitals provides free lodging and support at volunteer-host homes as a caring response to the housing needs of patients and their families who come to the Greater Philadelphia area for specialized medical care.

Financial Services

Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund

The Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund is a resource center providing education, advocacy, information and financial assistance for the uninsured needs of families caring for seriously ill and physically challenged children.


Michael's Way

The mission of Michael’s Way is to help the families of children with cancer to cope with the extraordinary expenses that come about as a direct result of the child’s illness. Chris McElwee, the founder of Michael’s Way, lost a brother to leukemia and was made aware of the unique problems that accompany cancer. When a child is diagnosed with cancer the intensive treatment regimen frequently requires a parent’s fulltime attention. In many cases, a parent finds it impossible to continue working while they care for their sick child. This loss of income combined with the increased costs associated with cancer treatment leads to severe financial problems for many families.

UnitedHealthcare

UnitedHealthcare's Purpose:
Children who have medical needs are sometimes not insured comprehensively to provide coverage for all of their medical treatments. There are few places for families who have gaps in their commercial health benefit plan coverage to turn to for funding medically necessary services for their children. Children may go without necessary treatment, or, they receive the care and families assume a large amount of debt. The Foundation understands these needs and is willing to help fill this void.

 


Transportation Services

Angel Flight

Angel Flight was created by a group of pilots who believe in the benefit of volunteering. We strive to keep all aspects of the organization volunteer. We are a non-profit charitable organization of pilots, volunteers, and friends. We will arrange free air transportation for any legitimate, charitable, medically related need. This service is available to individuals, and health care organizations. We will also arrange transportation of those people who are financially distressed, or who are in a time-critical, non-emergency situation due to their medical condition.


Corporate Angel Network
Corporate Angel Network is the only charitable organization in the USA whose sole mission is to ease the emotional stress, physical discomfort and financial burden of travel for cancer patients by arranging free flights to treatment centers, using the empty seats on corporate aircraft flying on routine business.

LifeLine Pilots
LifeLine Pilots facilitates transporation for on-going medical treatements, diagnosis and follow-up care through pilot donation of flight expenses and time. Pilots can also choose to assist passengers with humanitarian situations. These passengers are experiencing unique situations that require them to be away from their homes. Caregiver exchanges a final wish visiting an ill relative, taking children to special needs camps and disaster relief are examples of the many humanitarian missions for which LifeLine Pilots has arranged free air transporation.

Other Free Services

Flashes of Hope

Flashes of Hope is a non-profit organization dedicated to creating uplifting portraits of children fighting cancer and other life threatening illnesses. The portraits, taken by award-winning photographers, help children feel better about their changing appearance by celebrating it. For families of terminally ill children, it's especially important to have a portrait that preserves forever the beauty, grace and dignity of their child.


Gilda's Club

Gilda's Club provides meeting places where men, women and children living with cancer, along with their families and friends, can join with others to build a personal network of social and emotional support as an integral part of cancer treatment.

Free of charge and non-profit, Gilda's Clubs offer support and networking groups, seminars, workshops, specialized children's programs and social events, in a nonresidential and home-like setting. Funding is solicited from private individuals, corporations and foundations.


SuperSibs
SuperSibs goal is to reach out to the brothers and sisters of over 12,600 children in the U.S. and Canada who are diagnosed with cancer each year. Through our work, these siblings will feel valued, validated, heard, supported and delighted as recipients of SuperSibs! services and as participants in SuperSibs! activities.