Federal and State level assistance and foundation information
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Federal Level resource information
This is where you go to find federal and national level assistance programs.
State Level resource information
This is where you go to find state assistance programs as well as contact information for programs at the county and city level.
About them: Isaac's Friends is a 501(c)3 non-profit charity incorporated in South Carolina. Our initial service area is the Greenville, SC region with plans to rapidly expand throughout the southeast and eventually across the country. Where ever there are children in hospitals, we want to be there to help.
We are currently serving about 70 children a month. Our services involve using laptop computers and age appropriate games to take into local hospitals where teens and children are under long term care. Volunteers talk and play games with the children for 30 minutes to an hour per visit depending on the patients' conditions. The purpose is to provide love and care through attention, socializing, and play. The volunteers help bring some normalcy to the children's lives amidst abnormal and often depressing situations. We also support the family by providing services to the local Ronald McDonald Houses, helping to relieve some of the stress associated with caring for a hospitalized child and giving much needed hope, encouragement and support.
Research studies have shown that fun interaction time helps benefit the children in ways like:
- Reduced pain and distress
- A reduction in the fear and isolation of a prolonged illness
- A greater willingness to return for treatment
- An increased sense of peer support
- Increased knowledge and sense of responsibility for managing disease
- Much needed distraction from the challenges that accompany their illness
- Increased ability to cope with their disease
The mission of Isaac's Friends is to promote the emotional well-being of children enduring long-term hospitalization due to serious illness or injury by providing one-on-one interaction time with fun-loving, caring volunteers.
Ronald McDonald House Charities
About them: Mission: The mission of Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) is to create, find and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children. Guiding us in our mission are our core values:
Focusing on the critical needs of children.
Celebrating the diversity of the programs we offer and the staff, volunteers and donors who make them possible.
Staying true to our heritage of 35 years of responsible stewardship.
Operating with accountability and transparency.
Vision: We believe that when you change a child’s life, you change a family’s, which can change a community, and ultimately the world.
We strive to be part of that change and part of the solution in improving the lives of children and their families. We extend our reach and impact by leveraging our 35 years of experience and strong relationships with local communities and people in the field to continually establish Chapters across the globe. We continually work to improve and expand our core programs, while also developing new services to address the unique needs of the communities we serve.
We don’t do it alone. We rely on our Chapters to identify needs and carry out our mission on the ground. We rely on our strong relationships with the medical community to provide access to health care. We rely on strategic alliances with organizations that have the knowledge and infrastructure to extend our reach. We rely on you – our donors, volunteers, staff and friends.