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Best Day Foundation helps children with special needs build confidence and self-esteem through safe, fun, adventure activities like surfing, bodyboarding, kayaking, outrigger canoeing, SUP, snow-tubing, and more. Please join us in creating special days for kids with Autism, Down Syndrome, Cerebral Palsy, Blindness, Cancer, Spinal Cord Injuries, and other physical and developmental challenges!

Brad and Vicki Margus founded the A-T Children's Project when two of their young sons were diagnosed with A-T in 1993. Ataxia-telangiectasia is a genetic disease that attacks in early childhood. It progressively affects coordination, predisposes children to lethal cancers, and severely compromises their immune systems. Children with A-T are usually unable to walk by the age of ten and rarely live beyond their teens. By supporting and coordinating aggressive research, we hope to give them a chance to live and to enjoy life's possibilities.

HERHealthEQ is driving health equity by providing medical devices and equipment to developing countries for women's health issues. HERHealthEQ's vision is a world where healthcare, medical devices, and equipment are accessible to all women, equally. Women are the cornerstone of the family unit. When a woman becomes ill and does not receive the care she needs, the entire family unit is at greater risk of remaining in a cycle of poverty. We focus on providing equipment involved in the treatment of the top non-communicable diseases (NCDs) that affect the developing world which include cancers affecting women, maternal health, diabetes, and heart disease.

Since 1985, Hospice of Wichita Falls has offered a special kind of care to patients and families in 12 North Texas counties (within approximately 50-60 miles of Wichita Falls) who are coping with cancer or other life-threatening illnesses. Pain control and symptom management is the focus of hospice care. A team of physicians, nurses, social workers, aides, clergy and volunteers, along with support staff, work together to ensure the patient's physical, emotional and spiritual comfort. Most often, hospice care is provided in the patient's own home. When patients cannot safely remain at home, inpatient hospice care is provided in the W. Erle and Emma White Hospice Center.

A strong community needs great health care close to home. Thanks to the generosity of donors, the Foundation supports the Health Centre’s remarkable physicians and staff as they take care of our community. Donations support facility renovations to our patient care areas. For example, support from donors helped build a new wing that opened in 2012. Donors also help purchase essential medical equipment, like a new endo-bronchial ultrasound that pinpoints lung cancer, and funds training for our dedicated health care professionals. Current priorities include renovating our patient spaces like lounges and waiting areas to make the more comfortable for patients and families; building a new Dialysis Centre; and building and equipping two new Interventional Suites in our Diagnostic Imaging department.

The Tegan and Sara Foundation fights for health, economic justice and representation for LGBTQ girls and women. This mission is founded on a commitment to feminism and racial, social and gender justice. In partnership and solidarity with other organizations fighting for LGBTQ and women's rights, the Foundation raises awareness and funds to address the inequalities currently preventing LGBTQ girls and women from reaching their full potential. This work is critically important because… LGBTQ women have higher rates of gynecological cancer, depression, obesity, suicide and tobacco/alcohol abuse. Discriminatory laws, provider bias, insurance exclusions and inadequate reproductive health coverage leave 29% of LGBTQ women struggling to pay for health insurance. A quarter of lesbian women live in poverty. LGB women of color are three times more likely to live in poverty than their white peers. Transgender women are four times more likely to have a household income under $10,000 and twice as likely to be unemployed. One in five transgender women has reported being homeless at some point. Less than 1% of TV characters are lesbians. In 2016, 25 queer female characters were killed on-screen – continuing a decades-long trend.

Chapel Hill House is a not-for-profit organization providing cancer patients and their families a weekend getaway in a safe, relaxing central Ohio cabin.

MISSION STATEMENT When a kid is fighting cancer, he needs some respite from hospital beds and lab coats and treatments. We are Christopher's Haven. We are a home for kids and their families while they battle cancer. Our home is more than a place to stay, it's a support system to help with things large and small, and a community where families can be together, share a laugh, be comforted, and comfort others. Christopher's Haven allows kids and families to focus their energies on beating the cancer that has attacked them all. We know that medicine can heal the patient. Christopher's Haven helps heal the child.

The mission of Al's Angels is to provide support to children and families battling cancer, rare blood diseases, natural disasters & severe financial hardship.