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Richmond Virginia (VA) Children with Serious Illness
Here is a comprehensive list of volunteering
opportunities for children suffering from serious illness.
| Name | Description |
| ASK Foundation | The Association for the Support of Children with Cancer (ASK) was founded in 1975 by a small group of parents of pediatric cancer patients at MCV Hospital. They joined together to provide mutual support, to search for answers together and to deal with the devastating diagnoses. |
| Children's Hospital, Richmond, Virginia | Since Children’s Hospital’s beginning more than 80 years ago, when physicians and nurses donated their services to the hospital, volunteers have played an important role in our success. |
| Children's Miracle Network |
Children's Miracle Network-Richmond raises the level of pediatric healthcare in central Virginia by supporting Children’s Hospital and VCU Children’s Medical Center. |
| Comfort Zone Camp | Comfort Zone Camp is the nation's largest independent bereavement camp, located in the Richmond, Virginia, metropolitan area. |
| Connor’s Heroes Foundation | We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization made up of volunteers, parents of children with cancer, and other caring individuals and companies who want to conquer childhood cancer through direct assistance, awareness, and fundraising. We hope to help others be heroes in the lives of children with cancer and their families. |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Central and Western Virginia | The Make-A-Wish Foundation® of Central and Western Virginia grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions to enrich the human experience with hope, strength and joy. It is the vision of the organization that people everywhere will share the power of a wish®. |
| M.I.S.S. - Mothers In Sympathy & Support | The MISS Foundation is a 501 (c) 3, volunteer based organization committed to providing crisis support and long term aid to families after the death of a child from any cause. |
| Noah's Children | Noah’s children was established in 1997 as the first non-profit, licensed pediatric hospice in Central Virginia. In 2002 in an effort to continue to offer and to expand the services that Noah’s provides the community, Noah’s was incorporated into IVNA (Instructive Visiting Nurse Association). |
| Richmond Ronald McDonald House | A strong mind. A strong body. And a safe, supportive place to grow. These are things that every child needs - and deserves - to have. |
| Starlight Starbright Children's Foundation | Starlight Starbright helps seriously ill children and their families cope with their pain, fear and isolation through entertainment, education and family activities. |