Pickles Group’s mission is to provide free peer-to-peer support and resources to kids affected by their parent or guardian’s cancer. Having a parent with cancer can be a lonely, isolating experience. Pickles Group creates thriving communities of kids supporting kids throughout their parent’s cancer journeys. Pickles Group helps kids build resilience, have fun with friends who get them, and heal along the way.
The b-present Foundation is offering their free b-there connection tool online to help patients and their support network communicate and stay connected 24/7 from anywhere. Patients easily share their status, desire to connect, manage activities, and request needed items, and friends and family provide the support that best matches these needs. Information is private, clear, easy to act on and sign up, and avoids the pitfalls and hurt feelings that come with negotiating the who, when and what of support.
Cancer and Careers empowers and educates people with cancer to thrive in their workplace, by providing expert advice, interactive tools and educational events.
The National Children’s Cancer Society’s Transportation Assistance Fund alleviates the financial burden of travel and lodging for families who have a child with cancer. This fund helps cover transportation expenses such as mileage, airfare and lodging when a child needs to stay near the hospital for treatment and nonprofit lodging is unavailable.
Cool Kid’s Campaign is devoted to improving the quality of life for pediatric oncology patients/survivors and their families by focusing on the academic, social and emotional needs brought on by a cancer diagnosis.
The Nikolas Ritschel Foundation strives to bring joy to young adults (18 – 24) and their loved ones fighting cancer. They provide “Nik’s Wishes” to patients to carve out a joyful time to laugh, love and be together – and to forget about cancer for a while. While many pediatric cancer programs age out at 18, Nik’s Wishes focus on college-aged (18-24) young adults fighting cancer.
Since 1993, Cancer for College, has provided need-based college scholarships and educational experiences to cancer survivors. Cancer for College provides a number of different scholarship offers in different regions of the United States.
Just A Break From Cancer gives adults with cancer a “Just-a-Break” from cancer (from a nice night out, to a couple days “get-a-way”) at no charge to patients with advanced stage cancer. They currently are operating in the Ogden, St. George and Salt Lake City areas, but expect to be expanding soon to Logan and Provo as well as to Chicago, New Orleans, and Las Vegas areas.
MolecularMatch provides physicians, nurse navigators, or patients information on specific treatments for specific mutations and cancers. They match a patient’s personalized patient details to clinical trials, targeted therapies and immunotherapies, and provide linkages to related literature and publications.