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In 2005 a small group of Manitobans recognized a need that was not being addressed by the health care system and decided to do something about it. Helping Hands for Manitobans with Breast Cancer receives requests from Manitobans for prescriptions, special garments, transportation, accommodations, meals, childcare, wigs and rehabilitation program. We are a completely volunteer based charity with no paid positions. Help us help Manitobans with breast cancer.

OPACC was established in 1995 and is comprised of representatives from parent groups, parent contacts, and other family members from across the province. Our members are parents, guardians, survivors, or close relatives of a child/teen diagnosed with childhood cancer. We have been a Registered Charity since 2006. OPACC has collaborated on behalf of our children/teens and our families with appropriate regional, provincial and national bodies such as POGO, Childhood Cancer Foundation – Candlelighters Canada (CCF) and the Canadian Cancer Society (CCS) Ontario Division. Our Parent Liaison, Susan, meets with parents and families at Sick Kids and helps to address fears or concerns that they may have. She provides information on hospital services, community-based Parent Support Groups, parent drop-ins, liaison visits, and co-facilitated Parent Support Groups at the hospital.

NOFCC is an independent volunteered based registered charity established in 1998 by a group of parents of children with cancer. These parents wanted to provide help and support to families, which was not available through other programs. Being parents themselves, they recognized the particular difficulties involved in caring for a child with cancer and the geographic challenges of living in the north. NOFCC serves all families who have been touched by childhood cancer – families with a child on active treatment, those off treatment or receiving follow up care, and bereaved families. Our area expands north to Timmins and Kapuskasing, south to Parry Sound, east to North Bay and west to Sault Ste Marie and all areas in between. NOFCC is not funded by the government and the volunteers rely solely on fundraising activities and donations. At any given time, there are over 30 children in Northern Ontario on active treatment. Many treatments last over 2 years.

To offer teenagers living with cancer an opportunity to leave the hospital and become separated from civilisation, form their day-to-day environment. A situation is thus created, through which we aim to reconstruct the teenagers’ self-esteem and to help them regain their confidence in life by giving them a challenge and an opportunity to surpass their limits.

Hope Afloat USA's mission is to help survivors of breast cancer make positive emotional, spiritual, and physical changes in their lives through the ancient sport of dragon boat racing. We encourage survivors, regardless oftheir age or athletic ability, to "awaken the dragon within" by providing them with hope, support, camaraderie, and adventure.

The EndBrainCancer Initiative | Chris Elliott Fund is dedicated to ensuring that all patients diagnosed with brain cancer, a brain tumor, or metastatic disease to the brain have equal access to advanced diagnostics, FDA-approved treatments, specialists and clinical trials. We believe that IMMEDIATE ACCESS to these options provides the patient community with the best HOPE for survival and sustained quality of life. We advocate for policy and care improvements while echoing the patient’s voice in clinical trial protocol. We partner with industry, patients, researchers, advocacy groups, medical teams, hospital networks and others to educate patients and their caregivers with a focus on next generation sequencing so they can have empowered conversations with medical teams.

Ryan's Case for Smiles, with 120 chapters nationwide and deliveries to 363 hospitals, improves the quality of life of children and their families as they undergo treatment for life changing illnesses and injuries. We are dedicated to the mental health and well-being of the child and their family. Supporting the child's emotional needs can be as important as providing medical care. Kids need to feel better to heal better. Ryan's Case for Smiles provides over 200,000 bright cheerful pillowcases to children in treatment that give an emotional boost and remind them that they are not defined by their illness. We are developing one of the first initiatives to address pediatric medical post-traumatic stress and help children's entire families better cope and avoid long term emotional trauma.