What You Can Do To Help/Where You Can Get Help
If you're wondering what you can do to help someone who has cancer, I have some ideas.
If you don't know anyone that needs help, but want to give to the cause, I have some ideas.
METAvivor advocates for Stage IV breast cancer patients and raises money for research. 100% of donated funds go to research. 100% to research. Read that again.
MetUp advocates for Stage IV breast cancer patients. One of the events they do each year, along with Metavivor, is the Stage IV Stampede. Advocates (mostly metastatic breast cancer patients) from across the country converge on DC and meet with Congressional staffers about issues important to us.
Little Pink Houses of Hope provides week long beach retreat vacations to breast cancer patients and their families. My family was able to attend one of these retreats. It was simply amazing. Everything is provided (lodging, meals, activities) except transportation to the retreat spot.
Leslie's Week provides vacations for Stage IV breast cancer patients and their families. My family was able to attend one of these vacations. These are in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and we stayed at Dollywood's DreamMore Resort. We had a fabulous time! Everything is provided (lodging, meals, activities) except transportation to the retreat spot.
Ally's Wish -- "...the sole purpose of Ally’s Wish is to provide a last “wish” to young, terminally ill mothers with small children. We hope to provide a memory for the family that will last a lifetime. Our goal is to do this by providing services, gifts, transportation, lodging, or any other “wish” the mother may have." Quote taken directly from their website. Again, my family was a recipient. We chose to visit Los Angeles, and had a wonderful time.
Inheritance of Hope -- Not only does Inheritance of Hope provide retreat vacations (we went to New York), during the retreat they assist you in creating a legacy video for your children. It was by far the hardest and most fulfilling thing I have ever done. Everything was provided, including transportation to the retreat spot.
Do it for the Love Foundation provides up to four concert tickets to people with life threatening illnesses, children with severe challenges, and wounded veterans. From their website: "Through the healing power of music, our goal is to inspire joy, hope and lasting celebratory memories in the face of severe illness and trauma." My family and I saw Rick Springfield and Richard Marx in concert. We were ten rows from the stage, in the center of the row. Unbelievable seats. After the concert we had a meet 'n greet with Rick Springfield. You can read about that here if you'd like: The Night I Met Rick Springfield.
The Red Devils' "...mission is to fund support services that improve the quality of life for breast cancer patients and their families." Quote taken directly from their website. One of the things they do, for instance, is to gift gas gift cards to patients to help with getting to treatment.
Bob's Boxes provides post mastectomy care packages to women with breast cancer. In the boxes are comfy pajamas, slippers, a cookbook, and pillow, among other things.
Sisters of the Heart Breast Cancer Support Group is a support group local to me. They provide support to breast cancer patients, as well as provide outreach to the community.
Hearts United Against Cancer provides care packages to cancer patients, based on their interests.
I will update this page as more ideas come to my attention.
Basic ideas:
Basic ideas:
- Provide a meal and/or give a restaurant gift card
- Give a gas gift card
- Give grocery store gift cards
- Provide housecleaning services
- Provide babysitting services
- Offer to drive to treatments (while you're there, take notes, get snacks, etc.)
- See if your friend wants visitors; see if your friend needs someone to sit with them while their primary caregiver is away for a few hours
- Put together a bag full of things that will make life easier. Click here and here for a list of suggested items.
METAvivor advocates for Stage IV breast cancer patients and raises money for research. 100% of donated funds go to research. 100% to research. Read that again.
MetUp advocates for Stage IV breast cancer patients. One of the events they do each year, along with Metavivor, is the Stage IV Stampede. Advocates (mostly metastatic breast cancer patients) from across the country converge on DC and meet with Congressional staffers about issues important to us.
Little Pink Houses of Hope provides week long beach retreat vacations to breast cancer patients and their families. My family was able to attend one of these retreats. It was simply amazing. Everything is provided (lodging, meals, activities) except transportation to the retreat spot.
Leslie's Week provides vacations for Stage IV breast cancer patients and their families. My family was able to attend one of these vacations. These are in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and we stayed at Dollywood's DreamMore Resort. We had a fabulous time! Everything is provided (lodging, meals, activities) except transportation to the retreat spot.
Ally's Wish -- "...the sole purpose of Ally’s Wish is to provide a last “wish” to young, terminally ill mothers with small children. We hope to provide a memory for the family that will last a lifetime. Our goal is to do this by providing services, gifts, transportation, lodging, or any other “wish” the mother may have." Quote taken directly from their website. Again, my family was a recipient. We chose to visit Los Angeles, and had a wonderful time.
Inheritance of Hope -- Not only does Inheritance of Hope provide retreat vacations (we went to New York), during the retreat they assist you in creating a legacy video for your children. It was by far the hardest and most fulfilling thing I have ever done. Everything was provided, including transportation to the retreat spot.
Do it for the Love Foundation provides up to four concert tickets to people with life threatening illnesses, children with severe challenges, and wounded veterans. From their website: "Through the healing power of music, our goal is to inspire joy, hope and lasting celebratory memories in the face of severe illness and trauma." My family and I saw Rick Springfield and Richard Marx in concert. We were ten rows from the stage, in the center of the row. Unbelievable seats. After the concert we had a meet 'n greet with Rick Springfield. You can read about that here if you'd like: The Night I Met Rick Springfield.
The Red Devils' "...mission is to fund support services that improve the quality of life for breast cancer patients and their families." Quote taken directly from their website. One of the things they do, for instance, is to gift gas gift cards to patients to help with getting to treatment.
Bob's Boxes provides post mastectomy care packages to women with breast cancer. In the boxes are comfy pajamas, slippers, a cookbook, and pillow, among other things.
Sisters of the Heart Breast Cancer Support Group is a support group local to me. They provide support to breast cancer patients, as well as provide outreach to the community.
Hearts United Against Cancer provides care packages to cancer patients, based on their interests.
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