Resource Directory
ALSF is committed to helping families who have experienced a childhood cancer diagnosis by offering programs as well as external resources. The Resource Directory is designed to help connect families with additional organizations that provide a variety of services and support. Sort the resource list by your area and type of assistance below.
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Name | Description |
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Light A Candle |
Allows you to virtually light a candle in honor of a loved one and join a community. |
Lighthouse Family Retreat |
Offer restorative retreats and helpful resources for children in treatment or recently out of treatment and their families. |
Little Star |
Improve quality of life and provide long term care for children with cancer and children in need, their families and communities. |
Little Wish Foundation |
Provides small gifts, like headphones, guitars, cameras, etc., or "little wishes" to children in partnering hospitals in the Midwest and West. |
Live Like Bella |
Proivde assistance to pediatric cancer families while underoing treatment. Assist families with medical co-pays, basic needs such as: gas, food, and utilities and everything in between. |
LIVESTRONG Fertility |
LIVESTRONG Fertility helps you understand your fertility risks and options, and get access to fertility preservation discounts. |
Local Beat Kids Cancer Fund |
Provides access to cures through the science of cutting edge bone marrow and stem cell transplants at the Kids Beating Cancer Pediatric Transplant Center while providing resources and supporting for children with cancer, leukemia, and related life-threatening diseases and their families throughout the treatment process. |
Locks of Love |
Our mission is to return a sense of self, confidence and normalcy to children suffering from hair loss by utilizing donated ponytails to provide the highest quality hair prosthetics to financially disadvantaged children. The children receive hair prostheses free of charge. |
Lucy's Love Bus |
Offers integrative therapies to improve quality of life for children with cancer and life-threatening illness, to support their families, and to mobilize the next generation of cancer activists. |
Make a Wish Foundation |
Arranges experiences described as "wishes" to children diagnosed with critical illnesses.
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Making Headway Foundation |
Provides over a dozen different times of programs or grants that provide Care, Comfort, and a Cure to support families impacted by pediatric brain and spinal cord tumors. |
Marisa's Mission |
Dedicated to making a difference in the lives of cancer patients and their families. Marisa's Mission has five programs that offer grants to qualified recipients. |
Marty Lyons Foundation |
Fulfills special wishes of children, ages 3 - 17 years old, who have been diagnosed as having a terminal or life-treatening illness. |
Me Fine Foundation |
Works with social works and staff at Duke Medical Center, WakeMed Children's Hospital, and UNC Children's Hospital to fund hospital emotional, psychosocial, and financial support. |
Mercy Medical Angels |
Provide assistance in the air with commercial airline tickets and volunteer pilots, and on the ground with gas cards, bus and train tickets. |
Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance |
$4,000 per semester to a student that has dealt with cancer, personally or within their family, in an effort to help them further their education. |
Mesothelioma Foundation |
Awards $4,000 to one student whose life has been impacted by cancer |
Michael A Hunter Memorial Scholarship |
The Michael A. Hunter Memorial Scholarship Fund awards annual scholarships to help improve the quality of life for those affected by Leukemia/Lymphoma. The focus of the scholarship is supporting secondary education for Leukemia/Lymphoma patients and/ or children of non-surviving Leukemia/Lymphoma patients. This scholarship is offered nationwide. |
Michael Hoefflin Foundation |
Seeks to bring comfort and hope to families of children diagnosed with cancer in the Santa Clarita and surrounding valleys. |
Michael's Way |
Improve the lives of children with pediatric cancer and to support their parents struggling under the financial strain of such a devastating diagnosis. |