Allyson Whitney Foundation, Inc
Provides young adult cancer patients with ‘Life Interrupted Grants™’ to ease their financial burdens so that they can concentrate their energy on healing. For U.S. citizens between the ages of 16 and 36 years of age who are currently undergoing treatment or recently finished their protocol.
Grants help cover unanticipated expenses including transportation, hotels, rent, medical expenses, fertility options, integrative therapies, and wigs.
Brenda Mehling Cancer Fund
Supports patients ages 18-40 as they undergo cancer treatment by providing services to meet daily needs that are not covered by insurance. Typical grants cover $500 worth of medical co-payments, rent and mortgage, transportation, car insurance, repairs, and groceries.
Since Brenda founded it in 2001, the Fund has provided $280,888 in services for 406 young adults across 30 different states. She built it for young adults her age to maintain self-respect during months of treatment and to minimize the stress of associated financial challenges.
Even though she is no longer with us, we are working to fulfill Brenda’s vision of a nationwide support organization that helps young adults fight – and beat – the disease.
Cactus Cancer Society
Cactus Cancer Society’s mission is to provide a safe space where young adults (ages 18-45) facing cancer can connect, cope, and thrive with one another in an online community through creativity and expression. Our vision is to end isolation among young adults facing cancer.
Cameron Siemers Foundation For Hope
Hi, I’m Cameron Siemers and I’m not supposed to be here. In 1984, I was 2 years old. I received a blood transfusion. At age 7, I was diagnosed with HIV, and doctors told me I wouldn’t live past 10. That was in 1992. It hasn’t been easy but, through my experience, I identified a need for an organization to support young people with life-threatening illnesses as they transition into adulthood.
With the help of my team, I established the Cameron Siemers Foundation for Hope. We invite you to learn more about the Foundation’s Life Grant™ program, read our latest news, and make dreams a reality with a donation.
Helps young adults between the ages 18 and 30 diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, by awarding up to $5,000 to be used in the fulfillment of a dream, goal, or project.
CancerCare provides limited financial assistance for homecare, childcare and transportation. CancerCare’s Linking A.R.M.S. program provides limited financial assistance for hormonal therapy, oral chemotherapy, pain and anti-nausea medication, lymphedema supplies and durable medical equipment.
Cancer Survivor’s Fund
Provides scholarships and prosthetic limbs for young adults.
Clayton Dabney Foundation
Assists families who have children in the last stages of terminal cancer to create everlasting memories.
Elephants and Tea
Elephants and Tea is a media company with the mission to help adolescent and young adult (AYA) patients, survivors, and caregivers know that they are not alone in their fight with cancer.
The Elephant in the room is cancer. Tea is the relief conversation provides.
Be Heard. Join the Herd.
We are the only magazine written for and by the AYA cancer community telling their story in their own words.
Family Reach
Provides financial assistance for pediatric and young adult cancer patients. Helps with mortgage/rent, utilities, auto-related expenses, child care, treatment-related travel, hospital parking, prescription medications, and other ancillary medical costs.
First Descents
First Descents offers young adult cancer fighters and survivors a free outdoor adventure experience designed to empower them to climb, paddle, and surf beyond their diagnosis, defy their cancer, reclaim their lives, and connect with others doing the same.
Our programs are offered all over the US and even internationally. They range anywhere from 2 days to 1 week. Any young adult with cancer is eligible regardless of physical challenges, diagnosis, or prognosis! No experience required.
Healthwell Foundation provides financial assistance to those with chronic or life-threatening diseases. Eligible individuals can receive help with copayments for prescription drugs, coinsurance, deductibles and other selected out-of-pocket costs.
Hope for Young Adults
The “Giving Hope Fund” allows young adults currently battling cancer, as well as those who have been in remission for up to 5 years after their treatment, the opportunity to help pay for necessities they encounter in everyday life.
This includes obligations such as rent and mortgage payments, cell phone, credit card bills, clothing, work and education-related materials, department store and grocery gift cards. We make payments for medical bills, healthcare premiums, doctor visits, and prescription co-pays.
Imerman Angels
Carefully matches and individually pairs a person touched by cancer (a cancer fighter or survivor) with someone who has fought and survived the same type of cancer (a Mentor Angel). Cancer caregivers (spouses, parents, children and other family and friends of fighters) also receive 1-on-1 connections with other caregivers and survivors. These relationships inspire hope and offer the chance to ask personal questions and receive support from someone who is uniquely familiar with the experience. The service is absolutely free and helps anyone touched by any type of cancer, at any cancer stage level, at any age, living anywhere in the world.
Kristy Lasch Miracle Foundation
Provides financial assistance for medical expenses to women under 30 with breast cancer.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Urgent Need Program
Provides pediatric and young adult blood cancer patients or adult blood cancer patients enrolled in clinical trials with financial assistance. Includes rent, mortgage, lodging, utilities, childcare, elder care, food, transportation, car repair, car insurance, phone service, and acute dental work.
Meredith’s Miracles Colon Cancer Foundation
Provides financial assistance support to young adults under 40 with colon cancer
Nicki Leach Foundation
The Foundation’s primary mission is to honor Nicki’s request “to find a way to help young adults who have cancer.” Nicki lost her life to cancer at 19.
Young adults aged 18-29 are eligible to apply for a financial grant if they have been diagnosed with cancer and are under the care of a treating Oncologist.
Our mission is to raise financial support for research leading to new discoveries and treatments for young adults cancers. We would also like to continue our annual educational grant award to one young adult per year if we have enough funding. Thank you for supporting our mission so that we can continue our efforts to find new treatments leading to cures for AYA cancers.
Partnership for Prescription Assistance helps eligible patients obtain needed medications either free of charge or close to it. Being uninsured or underinsured is part of qualifying.
Patient Advocate Foundation
Provides small non-medical related grants to patients depending on medical and financial criteria.
The Scholarship for Survivors program awards scholarships to young adults that are or have been diagnosed with cancer.
Steven G. AYA Cancer Research Fund
Provides financial support for young adults to participate in a clinical trials and educational support programs.
Stupid Cancer
Stupid Cancer is a non-profit organization that empowers young adults affected by cancer through innovative and award-winning programs and services. We are the nation’s largest support community for this underserved population and serve as a bullhorn for the young adult cancer movement.
Sy’s Fund
Helps young adults ages 18-39 who are facing the challenges of cancer by funding their creative passions, pursuits, and hobbies as well as integrative therapies such as acupuncture, reflexology, and therapeutic massage.
We are a tribute fund in memory of Silas “Sy” River Bennett, a young man who thrived on ideas, projects, and goals.
The SAMFund: Support for Young Adult Cancer Survivors
The Samfund supports young adult cancer survivors in the United States as they recover from the financial impact of cancer treatment. Through direct financial assistance and free online support and education, the Samfund helps young adults move forward towards their personal, professional, and academic goals.
Twice a year, the SAM Fund gives grants to survivors aged 21-39 to help with medical bills, living expenses, educational/professional development, graduate tuition, student loans, cosmetic or reconstructive procedures, family building options/procedures, health insurance supplementation, mental health, physical therapy, residual and current medical expenses, transportation-related expenses, legal expenses and rent/mortgage supplementation.
We are the first and largest nonprofit organization in the country that provides direct financial assistance and free online support and education to young adults, regardless of where they live or their specific cancer diagnosis. Since 2005, we have awarded over $2 million in grants and provided a free Webinar series, “Moving Forward With Your Financial Health,” offering young adults the tools and guidance they need to move forward with their lives.
We also recently launched our newest program, in partnership with Triage Cancer: https://cancerfinances.org, to help young adults and others make well-informed financial decisions during and after cancer treatment.
The Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults
72,000 young adults are diagnosed with cancer every year. We support, educate, and connect young adults (ages 15-39) and their loved ones affected by cancer.
UCF offers remote (by telephone and e-mail) and on-site (in Maryland and DC) patient navigation programs that provide access to support resources, treatment information, and tips on effective communication with the patient’s health care team as well as support groups.
UCF also offers a college scholarship program to young adult cancer survivors and loved ones. Applications are available on the UCF website.
Helps young adults continue their education after being affected by cancer through their own diagnosis or the diagnosis of a loved one. Also at the Ulman House, they provide free housing for young adult cancer patients and their caregivers.
The Young Adult Cancer Alliance
A community-powered advocacy organization on a mission to ensure adolescents and young adults have no barriers to survive and thrive after a cancer diagnosis. We are working in community hospitals, cancer centers, and Washington, DC to transform adolescent and young adult cancer care in the United States.
Each year approximately 70,000 adolescents and young adults between 15 and 39 years of age are diagnosed with cancer in the United States. The National Cancer Institute reports that cancer is the leading cause of disease-related death for this age group.
Unfortunately, they have no medical “home” and too often find themselves in a cancer care system designed for older adults or young children. These settings do not meet the unique needs of adolescents and young adults which can negatively impact their care and life long after cancer:
Adolescents and young adults have seen no improvements in survival rates in 59% of cancers compared to older and younger patients with similar diagnoses.
Approximately 50% are never told that cancer treatment will impact their fertility and they do not meet strict insurance requirements for fertility coverage.
They do not receive developmentally-appropriate mental health support which can hinder medical compliance. More than 40% report an unmet counseling need a year after diagnosis.
They do not qualify for government relief programs which are designed to help young children, low-income, elderly, and disabled cancer patients … and not the “healthy” young adult.
Thrive/Survive
Thrive/Survive aims to create a portal community to enable real-life meetups of young adult cancer survivors (support groups and seminars), in addition to clear, concise access to information such as local medical practitioners, financial resources (including lenders and property managers willing to work with medically-bankrupt survivors) and lifestyle information (cancer-friendly yoga, dietitians, and more). Thrive/Survive Los Angeles is a project of The Giving Back Fund, a 501(c)(3) organization.
Young Survival Coalition
Young Survival Coalition (YSC) strengthens the community, addresses the unique needs, amplifies the voice and improves the quality of life of young adults affected by breast cancer, locally, nationally and internationally.
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