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 - Nonprofit organisation provides hair prosthetics for children who have developed long-term medical hair loss. - Children's Miracle Network (4)
- Learn about Children's Miracle Network, organisation that raises fund for children’s hospital, medical research, and community awareness of children's health issues. Sites provide information about the organisation, hospitals, and events.
- National Children's Bureau (NCB)
- Registered charity promoting the interests and wellbeing of children and young people across every aspect of their lives.
- Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) (21)
- Find sites about Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC), organisation aims to improve the health and well being of children. Sites offer organisation information, home-away-from-home details, grants, events, and various chapters.
- Project Linus (2)
- Learn about Project Linus, organisation provides new, handmade blankets to seriously ill, traumatized children. Sites offer organisation information, newsletter, patterns, and various chapters.
- KidsPeace: The National Center For Kids In Crisis
- Offers treatment for kids in crisis and kids with mental and behavioural health issues.
- Starbright Children's Foundation
- Children's foundation dedicated to improving the quality of life of seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear, and isolation through entertainment, education, and family activities.
- Healthy Child Healthy World
- Provides simple steps to create a safe, clean, green home for babies, kids, and family.
- Magic Foundation, The
- Provides support services for the families of children afflicted with chronic and critical disorders, syndromes, and diseases that affect a child's growth.
- Children's Environmental Health Network
- Promote a healthy environment to protect the fetus and the child from environmental hazards.
- Wigs for Kids
- Provides wigs and hair replacement systems for children affected by hair loss due to chemotherapy, alopecia, burns, and other medical conditions. Also accepts donations of hair and money.
- Children's Organ Transplant Association, Inc. (COTA)
- Provides assistance to patients with fund for a life-saving organ, bone marrow, cord blood, or stem cell transplant.
- National Tay-Sachs & Allied Diseases Association@
- Learn about National-Tay Sachs & Allied Diseases Association, which aims to fight and cure Tay-Sachs, Canavan, and related genetic diseases and support affected families. Sites offer organisation information, research initiative, clinical trials, message board, and various chapters.
- Children's Hospitals
- Home to the National Association of Children's Hospitals and Related Institutions (NACHRI) and National Association of Children's Hospitals (NACH), that support children's hospitals, paediatric units, and related health systems.
- Save Babies Through Screening Foundation
- Works to improve the lives of babies by preventing disabilities and death resulting from disorders detectable through newborn screening.
- Child Family Health International
- Provides free surgery, immunizations, health care services, and recycle necessary medical equipment for children in need.
- Alliance To Healthy Homes
- Organisation working to protect children from lead and other home environmental health hazards.
- Dream Day on Cape Cod
- Nonprofit organisation providing seriously ill children and their families with respite from hospitals and treatments through summer camp sessions and annual holiday events.
- Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health
- Focused on the promotion and protection of the health of children.
- Information Clearinghouse on Children
- Primary goal is to stimulate more extensive and accurate public discussion on a range of issues affecting children's well-being, health, and safety.
- Children's Liver Association for Support Services
- Provides information, support, and services for families coping with paediatric liver disease and transplantation.
- Nathan's Battle
- Foundation established to aid in the development of therapies for Late Infantile Batten Disease. Includes disease information and resources.
- National Center for Policy Research for Women and Families
- Nonprofit, nonpartisan organisation that is dedicated to improving the lives of women and families.
- Jesica's Hope Chest, Inc.
- Not for profit organisation for critically ill children. Originally created to help Jesica Santillan with her heart and lung transplant.
- Tomorrows Children's Fund
- Privately funded organisation that strives to ease the pain and suffering of children with cancer and serious blood disorders.
- United States Agency for International Development - BASICS II Project (Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival)
- Maternal child health information for international organisations and developing countries in nutrition, behaviour change, immunization, evaluation, public/private sector partnerships, and IMCI.
- National Association for Sick Child Daycare
- Nonprofit, educational organisation that was developed as a result of a research project designed to quantify the need for sick child care.
- Genesis Fund
- Provides funding for the diagnosis and treatment of children born with birth defects, mental retardation, and genetic disorders.
- Sandra Schmirler Foundation
- Dedicated to helping families with seriously ill children through financial support of charity organisations.
- Children's Mitochondrial Disease Network, The
- Parental and professional organisation specialising in the complexities of mitochondrial and associated disorders.
- Jeena
- Assists children with developmental disorders and their families.
- Sugarbugs
- Nonprofit organisation supporting children with diabetes and their families.
- First Hand Foundation
- International nonprofit organisation founded by Cerner Corporation that offers financial assistance to families of children with health problems.
- European Association for Children in Hospital (EACH)
- Umbrella organisation for member associations involved in the welfare of all children before, during, or after a hospital stay.
- Healing the Children (5)
- Carolina Children's Charity
- Supports local efforts to fight the effects of birth defects and disabling childhood diseases for Lowcountry children.
- Dyson Foundation, The
- Charitable organisation focuses on children's health and paediatric funding.
- TOMI - The Resources For Hope Center
- Nonprofit group that provides information and treatments of autism and Pervasive Development Disorder.
- Hirschsprungs & Motility Disorders Support Network
- Support group for parents that have kids or adults who suffer from motility disorders, such as GERD, Hirschsprung's Disease, or other similar problems.
- Mott Children Health Center
- Promotes child advocacy and provides multi-discipline behavioural and health services for children.
- alopeciaKIDS.org
- Nonprofit organisation helping kids and their families cope with this condition. Provides links, photos, discussion forums, and contribution information.
- Brazelton Foundation, Inc.
- Encouraging and supporting education and training programmes that implement preventive healthcare practices for children and families that are based on the work of T. Berry Brazelton, M.D.
- Peninsula Committee Childrens Hospital
- Nonprofit organisation that raises money for Childrens Hospital Los Angeles.
- Foundation for Positively Kids
- Raising money to open and support a paediatric skilled nursing facility to help medically fragile and terminally ill children.
- Children's Health Council
- Works to reduce the number of uninsured children in Connecticut.
- Children Afflicted With Lymphatic Malformations - CALM
- Organisation of parents and children afflicted with lymphatic malformations. Offers information, support, medical references, and encourages research to improve treatment.
- Child Health Association of Sewickley
- Funding source of child-related charities for programmes and services that directly address children's emotional, physical, educational, cultural, and recreational needs.
- MyPlanet
- Encouraging young people to become involved in world issues such as HIV in Africa and the use of child soliders in conflicts.
- Philip Green Memorial Trust
- Charity raising funds to help children overcome illness and receive treatment.
- New Beginnings Prosthetic Foundation
- Provides artificial limbs and prosthetic devices to disabled children and runs Camp Camelot.
- Children's Diseases Foundation
- Conducts, assists, and raises money for health care and disease prevention for children in the United States and throughout the world.
- Focus International
- People united to help children worldwide who suffer from health, nutrition, and community challenges.
- Alliance for a Healthier Generation
- Partnership between the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation, aiming to fight childhood obesity. Browse through their programmes for schools, the food and beverage industry, and parents, or become a part of their Go Healthy Challenge.
- CORE Group
- The CORE Group, a membership association of international nongovernmental organisations (NGOs), promotes and improves the health and well-being of children and women in developing countries through collaborative NGO action and learning.
- Merlin's Miracles
- Charity to aid child burn victims, started by the "Miracle Man," Sgt. Merlin German, a veteran of the Iraq War who suffered burns over 97% of his body.
- Teachers for Healthy Kids
- Promotes teachers as information resources for parent awareness of low- or no-cost health insurance programmes. Formed by the California Association of Health Plans and the California Teachers' Association.
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