Why Volunteer with the Foundation for Children with Cancer?
We help families and children during one of their most dire times of need. The Foundation for Children with Cancer (FCC) provides financial assistance to pediatric cancer patients and their families, helping to ease the burden of non-medical related expenses like mortgages, utilities and auto expenses. Our network of hospitals, clinics and social workers allows FCC to discover legitimate, unmet needs. Since 1998, FCC has provided direct aid to hundreds of cancer patients and their families nationwide.
Volunteer Criteria:
Volunteers for the Foundation for Children with Cancer range in age from age 5 to 95 (literally). We have volunteers who give one hour of time or tens of hours of time, from 8:30 am until 4:30 pm; therefore, if you would like to give any amount of your time, please contact us and we would love to have you.
Volunteer Tasks:
- Fundraisers: Help create kits and materials for the following fundraisers.
- Hats On Day- over 1,000 schools from 50 states participate.
- Children are Golden Campaign- Schools sell gold ribbons for $1.00 each.
- Event planning: Help to organize event materials, plan details for the event, etc.
- Dine 2 Make a Difference ( D2MD)
- Murder Mystery
- Golf tournament
- Office assistant: filing, data entry, creating mailing etc.
FCC is continually seeking volunteers to help us help cancer patients experience the joy they deserve. Possible tasks volunteers can do include event planning, preparing for Hats On Day and the Children are Golden campaign and developing new projects.
Please call 314.843.9300 or email us development@childrenwithcancer.org if you or someone you know is interested in volunteering.