2010 Charities

Children’s Oncology Services

Children's Oncology Services, Inc. is a 501 (c) (3) not for profit organization that operates programs for kids with cancer. To learn more about our organization, please visit www.onestepcamp.org.

Stillwaters Cancer Support Services

Stillwaters Cancer Support Services is a community based, non-profit organization providing professional psychosocial, emotional, and spiritual support for persons with cancer and those who love them. Our support services are available to anyone coping with cancer and include individual and family counseling, workshops, youth programs, bereavement programs and mentorship programs. Stillwaters offers its professional services at no-cost to all individuals who are dealing with a cancer diagnosis.

The Angel Fund

The Angel Fund was formed in 2003 with the desire to assist the families of children from Northeast Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan who been diagnosed with cancer or bone marrow failure.

The primary goal of the Angel Fund is to connect families to various community and national resources, to offer social support to all families and to provide financial support to qualified families.

100% of the funds are used to help these families.

2009 Charities

Angel On My Shoulder

Angel On My Shoulder, a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, reaches out to the cancer-affected community through its programs which include: Uplifting Angels, visits to over 73 clinics and hospital and over 5000 patients twice a year; Camp Angel and Camp Teen Angel, weekend camps for kids affected by cancer; Angel Care, weekend retreats for Cancer Caregivers; Healing Angels, retreats for people who have completed their cancer treatments; Guardian Angels which recognizes and honors cancer caregivers; Angel Scholarship program; and, our Angel Wings program which grants requests.

Breast Cancer Recovery

Breast Cancer Recovery offers wellness programs designed by survivors for survivors to help women heal their mind, body and spirit after breast cancer. Our flagship program, Infinite Boundaries,™ is a 4-day retreat that helps breast cancer survivors overcome common challenges such as feeling isolated, a loss of control and a loss of hope. At retreat, women learn new stress reduction skills and are encouraged to stretch their boundaries by trying a new physical activity such as kayaking, cycling or yoga.  Breast Cancer Recovery offers more than ten retreats a year, including specialty retreats for women with advanced breast cancer, young women with breast cancer and single women with breast cancer.  Because cancer often comes with financial strains, all programs are offered at a substantially reduced cost and scholarships are available.

Families of Children with Cancer, Inc.

Our group is a nonprofit group for patients, families and long term survivors of childhood cancer from Northeast Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.  Because kids can’t fight cancer alone………We offer an array of services to 100+ kids and teens on treatment for cancer at any given time.  Even though the majority of our families utilize St. Vincent Hospital in Green Bay, we have reached out and helped families who seek medical treatment from the hospitals in Madison and Milwaukee. Our goals are to provide emotional support, networking,  information, educational resources, out of pocket expenses due to the child’s diagnosis including gas cards, emergency assistance, travel and lodging expenses amongst others.  We assist the families on their cancer journey at the onset of diagnosis through the treatment plan to survivorship or upon the death of their child.  No family should face the uncertain world of cancer alone... 

HospiceCare Inc.

HospiceCare Inc. is a nonprofit, community-based hospice dedicated to providing physical, emotional and spiritual support to patients and families dealing with life-limiting illnesses. With offices in Madison and Janesville, HospiceCare serves residents in Dane, Green, Jefferson, Rock and Walworth counties.

2008 Charities

Capital Candlelighters

The mission of Capital Candlelighters is to educate, serve, support and advocate for children with cancer, their families, childhood cancer survivors and the professionals who care for them. Capital Candlelighters provides an array of services for the 250 + kids and teens on treatment for cancer at any given time at the American Family Children’s Hospital, and for children in our region who are being treated for cancer at other centers. Our primary goal is to provide information, emotional support, educational resources and emergency assistance to these children and their families, and to accompany them on the difficult journey from diagnosis through treatment to long-term survivorship, or, in 30% of cases, through the experience of the death of the child.

Restoring Hope Transplant House

Restoring Hope Transplant House will be a “home away from home” for patients who are in the Madison area for organ, bone marrow or other transplants. A transplant house is not a medical facility. It is a caring environment that offers high quality, affordable accommodations for patients and their adult family members/caregivers. In addition to physical housing, the House offers hospitality, compassion and hope to support the healing journey for the patient and family. The support is provided by a small core staff, many volunteers and through interaction between other families facing the same challenges.

Golf Fore Wolfe

Golf Fore Wolfe & A Cure is a charity started in memory of Eric Wolfe, who lost his life much too young to brain cancer. The organization is devoted to raising money to endow the Eric Wolfe Brain Tumor Professorship at the University of Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Center so that brain tumor patients will have a better chance to extend their lives. The Professorship will provide funds for ongoing brain cancer research. Help us endow this Professorship to help brain cancer patients become survivors.

2007 Charities

HeadRush

Our mission...
Significantly improve the future of Brain Tumor research, treatment, and survivorship.

American Cancer Society

The American Cancer Society is the nationwide, community-based, voluntary health organization dedicated to eliminating cancer as a major health problem by preventing cancer, saving lives and diminishing suffering from cancer through research, education, advocacy and service.

Gilda's Club

Our Mission is to create welcoming communities of free support for everyone living with cancer - men, women, teens and children - along with their families and friends. Our innovative program is an essential complement to medical care, providing networking and support groups, workshops, education and social activities.

Ronald McDonald House Charities - Madison

This is the house where families meet to continue their lives, to eat and sleep, to find their strenghts, and dry their tears. To look forward with hope to better years. This is the house that becomes their home. This is the house that love built.