Resources
Below is a list of resources to help you on your journey. Talk to your doctors and social workers to find local resources in your community as well.
Providing Complimentary Items:
Best Buddies
Opportunities for one-on-one friendship, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities.
bestbuddies.org
Beads of Courage
Helping children coping with serious illness record and tell their own story.
beadsofcourage.org
Dream Night at the Zoo
Certain zoos offer free admission to those with special needs and their guest. Ask your local zoo for more details.
Feel Better Friends
Handmade dolls stuffed with love and well wishes, made by volunteers and donated to children battling cancer and other illnesses.
FBFdolls.org
Free Movies
Some movie theaters offer free admission to an attendant of a disabled person. Also, if you need to leave the movie early, ask for a refund. Speak to your local movie theatre for more information.
Healing Helpers
Companions for children who are going through difficult circumstances.
healinghelpers147.com
Meal Train
Helps to organize a meal train, pick up groceries, do laundry, and more for a patient, family or friend in need of some extra help.
mealtrain.com
The National Library Service for the blind and physically handicapped
Free braille and audio materials to people who have visual or physical impairments.
loc.gov
Project Sunshine
Provides free educational, recreational, and social programs.
projectsunshine.org
Songs of Love Foundation
Creates personalized songs for children and teens facing medical, physical, and emotional challenges.
songsoflove.org
Special Kids Photography of America
Free photo shoot and free 8×10. Smiles for Kate Family Photo Grant. Must be from a SKPA photographer.
specialkidsphotography.com
I Taalk Foundation
Provides kids with disabilities of all kinds up to $250 in free apps per year.
itaalk.org
Icing Smiles
A non-profit that provides special celebration cakes to children who have a critical illness or their siblings.
icingsmiles.org
Making Dreams Come True:
Dream Factory
Not limited to children with life-threating illness. The Dream Factory also grants wishes to children who are critically or chronically ill.
dreamfactoryinc.org
Garden of Dreams
Non-profit working with Madison Square Garden Company and MSG Networks
gardenofdreamsfoundation.org
Starlight Foundation
Hope Kids
Kids wish Network
Make-a-Wish Foundation
The Marty Lyons Foundation
Sunshine Foundation
Granting Wishes for Adults:
A Special Wish Foundation INC.
Granting wishes for any person under 21 with a life-threatening disorder.
spwish.org
Deliver the Dream
For children or adults living with an advanced illness, the organization provides a three-day retreat by partnering with other organizations.
deliverthedream.org
Dream Foundation
Helps fulfills wishes of adults with advanced illnesses.
dreamfoundation.org
Memories of Love
Parents with a life-threatening illness who have children under the age of 16 are sent on a five-day all-expenses-paid trip to Orlando, FL.
memoriesoflove.org