Make A Child Smile

Organizations

About Cerebral Palsy - Find out about cerebral palsy, types of cerebral palsy, and ask a doctor if you are eligible for lifetime benefits. Free evaluation!

Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T) Children's Project - Provides physicians, research scientists, families and support providers with information about an inherited childhood disease called Ataxia-Telangiectasia (pronounced: "Ay-TACK-see-uh Teh-LAN-jick-TAY-sha").

A-T Project Online - Non-profit organization that supports research for treatments for children with Ataxia-Telangiectasia (A-T). Areas of treatment research include nutritional therapies, dietary management, use of cytokines, as well as more conventional drug treatments. The A-T Project also provides parent education and travel funds for families to A-T clinical studies.

Batten Disease Support and Research Association - An international support and research networking organization for families of children and young adults with an inherited neurological degenerative disorder known as Batten Disease.

Cancer Care, Inc - Services include an online support group, referrals, and toll-free counseling line. Also, users will find an extensive list of informational and educational materials.

Cancer Kids - Helping children with cancer tell their stories to the world.

Children's Rehabilitation Engineering Team - The purpose the Children's Rehabilitation Engineering Team is to serve people with disabilities in the Alabama counties of Mobile, Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Escambia, Monroe, and Washington by assisting them with their adaptive technology needs.

Children's Organ Transplant Association - Non-profit organization founded in 1986 to ensure that no person is denied a life-saving organ transplant because of a lack of funds or a lack of an available organ.

Choose Hope, Inc - Offers a wide selection of services and cancer gift items for patients and their families. Their message is one of humor, hope and inspiration. A large portion of their sales goes to fund cancer research.

Congenital Heart Information Network - C.H.I.N. is an international organization that provides reliable information, support services and resources to families of children with congenital heart defects and acquired heart disease, adults with congenital heart defects, and the professionals who work with them.

Cystic-L - Cystic Fibrosis Info & Support - CYSTIC-L is a free email service dedicated to the exchange of information and support specific to Cystic Fibrosis. Members include people with CF and those who share their lives: medical professionals, scientists, researchers, parents, grandparents, spouses, siblings, friends and significant others.

DebRA (Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa Research Association of America, Inc.) - Non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for Epidermolysis Bullosa, a condition of the skin where a certain protein is missing from the top layer of the skin called the epidermis. Because the skin is missing this protein, blisters develop easily and causing severe pain. Also visit: EB Mommas (for parents of kids with EB)

Fight SMA - An International organization dedicated to accelerating a treatment or cure for Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). SMA is the leading inherited killer of children under two.

Give Kids The World - Non-profit 51-acre resort for children with life-threatening illnesses whose one wish is to visit central Florida's best loved attractions.

I'm a Kid Foundation - A nonprofit 501c3 charitable foundation that supports children with medically related hair loss, offers information and resources, enriching programs, and educational awareness in an effort to improve the well-being of the children.

Jacob's Heart Children's Cancer Association - An organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of children with cancer and easing the burdens faced by their families.

Kids Cancer Network - Kids Cancer Network is a networking hub for children, families and medical caretakers in the community of childhood cancer. KCN features the fun and encouraging "FUNLETTER" (online kids activity pages), a prayer page, "your story" area, pen-friends, and fun contests. The goal of KCN is to offer "a dose of hope" to children fighting cancer and those who care for them.

Locks Of Love - Are you cutting your long hair off??? Donate it to Locks Of Love!!! Locks Of Love is a charity that provides hairpieces to financially disadvantaged children under the age of eighteen with medical hair loss.

Make-A-Wish Foundation of America - The premier wish-granting organization for children, including Make-A-Wish Foundation International and Make-A-Wish Foundation local chapters.

Medscape - The online resource for better patient care. Medscape pools information from clinical journals, medical news providers, medical education programs, and material created expressly for Medscape. The result is a medical website rich in content, broad in appeal, and high in quality.

Michigan Immunodeficiency Foundation - A non-profit organization whose goal is to improve patients quality of life who suffer from primary immune deficiency diseases.

National Institutes of Health - This is the official website of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The National Institutes of Health is one of the world's foremost medical research centers. An agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the NIH is the Federal focal point for health research. NIH is the steward of biomedical and behavioral research for the Nation. Its mission is science in pursuit of fundamental knowledge about the nature and behavior of living systems and the application of that knowledge to extend healthy life and reduce the burdens of illness and disability.

National Marrow Donor Program - Its mission is to facilitate successful transplants of hematopoietic cells from volunteer unrelated donors as life-saving therapy for patients of all racial and socioeconomic backgrounds.

Neuroblastoma Children's Cancer Society - Group mainly of volunteers, many with children or relatives of victims or survivors of the disease. The organization is an advocate for the children and their families and is dedicated to provide support. The primary focus of the organization is to raise money to assist local research in Neuroblastoma cancer and to bring the fight to a national level to try and focus additional research and funding until a cure can be found.

PatchWorx - Provides a safe, secure, moderated, online community for children who are seriously ill or disabled, with games, puzzles, and more. Make friends with common interests and interact with Patches, the mascot.

Project Linus - Provides hand made blankets for seriously ill and traumatized children.

Rare Cancer Alliance - The Rare Cancer Alliance is an informational website for all rare and pediatric cancer patients. They have links on their pages for specific cancers. They also have a matching patient program, accessible through the website, that will help you to find support based on your particular cancer.

Ronald McDonald House Charities - Provides comfort and care to children and families through its network of local charities serving in 27 countries by making grants and providing support to Ronald McDonald Houses worldwide.

Send Love Today - A nonprofit organization that provides emotional support to brain tumor patients and their families in the form of cards and small gifts.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital - Provides treatment for kids with cancer and other serious illnesses. St Jude's needs your donations!!!

Songs Of Love - Not-for-profit organization dedicated to creating personalized songs for chronically and terminally ill children and young adults. These one-of-a-kind compositions are a wonderful source of joy and inspiration to the special people who receive them.

Spinal Muscular Atrophy - Families of SMA Home Page - Information on Spinal Muscular Atrophy, Types I, II, II and IV and Kennedy's Disease. Information on cause, genetics, therapy, research, daily life. Interactive areas, local chapters, fundraising activities.

The Candlelighters Childhood Cancer Foundation - Mission is to educate, support, serve, and advocate for families of children of cancer, survivors of childhood cancer, and the professionals who care for them.

The Donor Foundation - Dedicated to relieving the physical, financial and emotional obligations of organ donors and their families in an effort to increase organ donation. They do not pay living donors to donate. They are a non-profit organization which provides support through public awareness, education, transportation, airfare, lodging, childcare, and more.

The Heart Center Encyclopedia - Written by a pediatric cardiothoracic surgeon and his staff of medical professionals, the Heart Center Encyclopedia is an easy-to-understand, comprehensive information resource appropriate for both parents and medical professionals.

The National Cancer Institute's CancerNet - Provides comprehensive cancer database, including summaries on cancer treatment, screening, prevention, and supportive care, and information on ongoing clinical trials; fact sheets, news, and other resources.

The Max Foundation - Seeks to improve the quality of life and survival rates of leukemia patients, especially children of Hispanic and Latin American origin, by providing information about treatment options, as well as emotional and economical support. The Max Foundation is also working to establish the Latin American Bone Marrow Donor Registry.

The Miracle Kids - This website is dedicated to the kids who have, who has had and who will have Cancer or a Cancer related disease.

University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center - Provides information for patients, their families, physicians and other healthcare professionals.

Vital Options International TeleSupport Cancer Network - Vital Options® International TeleSupport® Cancer Network is a not-for-profit cancer communications, advocacy and support organization, based in Los Angeles. Vital Options in association with Premiere Radio Networks, the largest radio network in the United States, produces The Group Room, a weekly two-hour live radio call-in talk show about cancer that is nationally syndicated in the United States. The Group Room is heard every Sunday by more than half-a-million listeners as well as an international audience who hears their simulcast live on the Internet at their website.

Walter Payton Cancer Fund - The Walter Payton Cancer Fund is dedicated to funding research that not only improves quality of life, but also offers genuine hope for a cure.

Web Of Charity - Make a FREE money donation to a charity to help cancer patients, breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer and leukemia patients.

Where There's A Need, Inc. - Not-for-profit organization which creates special haired head garment with attached bangs and hair, for women and girls with cancer and hair loss

Wigs For Kids - Not-for-profit organization providing hair replacement solutions for children affected by hair loss due to chemotherapy, alopecia, burns and other medical conditions. If you're going to cut your long hair, think about donating it to them ok?

Other Websites

Angels for Hope - Angels for Hope are available free of charge to those who are severely injured and/or chronically ill, as well as their caregivers, or just someone that needs hope - as a tangible reminder that you are not alone, that others care, and that we remember you in our thoughts and prayers.

Chemo Angels - They match you up with a single cancer patient (or more if you wish) so that you can send them cards and gifts in the mail. They call this, "Angeling" a patient.

Childprayer International - Offering Treatment through Prayer For the Needs and Hopes of Suffering Children, Infants, Teens, Missionaries & God's Kids of All Ages and Cultures Worldwide.

Children and illnesses - Arndis's Page with lots and lots of links to various children's illnesses.

Kids Heart - A website for Learning Disability awareness and support.

Make A Difference - Kenny dedicates this website to sick kids. Please visit his website.

Smiles n Hugs - Same concept of the Make A Child Smile website, but for Canadian Kids. (**has no affiliation with our website**)

Post Pals - Same concept of the Make A Child Smile website, but for UK Kids. (**has no affiliation with our website**)

The Jared Box Project - A Jared Box is a plastic box filled with small gifts, toys, cards, and games. The boxes are given to chronically-ill children to provide a special diversion as they receive chemotherapy or dialysis treatments.

The Never-Ending Squirrel Tale - Practical Tips and Encouragement for Parents of Kids with Cancer.

Infant/Child Loss

Heavenly Heart Organization - This website was formed to help individuals and families find positive methods for dealing with grief and loss.

Memories are Forever - Visit this website to share ideas and learn ways to help preserve those special memories of a lost loved one.

Baby Bunny Memorial Site - For those babies lost in miscarriage, stillbirth, SIDS and other infant deaths.

Empty Arms Heavy Heart - A website about Grief, associated with every type of Infant Loss.

M.I.S.S. Foundation (Mothers In Sympathy & Support) - Non-profit international organization providing immediate and ongoing support to grieving families and reducing infant and toddler death through research and education. The website's mission is to allow a safe haven for parents to share their grief after the death of a child.

Sibling-Loss Support Group - Offers support for Surviving Siblings.

The Compassionate Friends - Assists families in the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child and to provide information to help others be supportive.

The Grief Warehouse - Website designed for parents who are coping with the death of their child. The goal is to gather different ideas on how to cope and remember your precious one.