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Several New Grant Foundations

Great News! Several of our group members have shared information on programs that have helped them during their cancer treatment! So we wanted to be sure to pass on the information on these grants…..

Everything from Foundations that offer FREE Gasoline cards to cancer patients, FREE Gift cards to restaurants and retail stores to cancer patients, Grants for help with out of pocket costs relating to Breast Reconstructive Surgery, Grants to help with rent/mortgage, utilities, car payments, child care, medical expenses, food, dental, and medical co-pays!

Join our private Breast Cancer Financial Help and Resources – Cancer Butterfly Facebook Group to get in on the sharing first hand 🙂

***Here is the list of Foundations that have been newly added to our Cancer Butterfly Foundation List (go down the list and start applying today!):

Simple Loaf of Bread Gasoline gift cards are sent to those undergoing treatment to help ease the cost of the gas spent on trips to medical treatments.

SIMPLE LOAF OF BREAD

PO Box 403
Wilton, CA 95693

916-479-5052

slobcards@gmail.com

AIRS-Alliance in Reconstructive Surgery Grants for help with out of pocket costs relating to Breast Reconstructive Surgery. All grant applications for medical expenses relating to breast reconstructive surgery submitted through this process will be considered. Each applicant who has undergone a mastectomy will be considered for a grant, based on their application details and the support information received. All grants are awarded through an objective and nondiscriminatory selection process. Criteria for AiRS Foundation’s grants to individuals are based on the Foundations submission to the IRS at the time of its approval for 501(c)3 standing as a charitable foundation. Grants awarded may range from an individual’s medical bill co-pay to the full cost of reconstructive surgery, hospitalization, and other related medical expenses.

MAILING ADDRESS

3401 LEE PARKWAY, SUITE 1504
DALLAS, TEXAS 75219

PHONE

877-489-4877

E-MAIL

info@airsfoundation.org

Jill’s Wish Offers grants to help with rent/mortgage, utilities, car payments…….Jill’s Wish offers grants of up to $1500 on a rolling basis to cover non-medical living expenses for those with newly-diagnosed or terminal breast cancer. The grant is for your housing expenses (rent or mortgage), utility bills and any car payments. We pay your bills directly to the housing lender, landlord, utility company and auto loan holder, so you don’t have to worry. It is one more thing you can rest assured is taken care of while you spend time with friends and family and rest and recover.

Jill’s Wish

PO Box 7151

Louisville, KY 40257

(702) 237-9123

info@jillswish.org

The Tiffany Foundation Empowers people living with cancer with “Hope. Help. Now.” by making direct financial grants. These grants help to pay rents, medical expenses, transportation cost, child care, and other related expenses.

The Tiffany Foundation

10249 E Elmwood Dr.

Sun Lakes, AZ 85248

Phone: 602-300-5859

The Cancer Card Exchange Playing “The Cancer Card” by collecting and distributing gift cards to cancer patients. The Cancer Card Xchange distributes one-time gifts of various gift cards to verified cancer patients.

Apply thru their website: https://cancercardxchange.org/

FREE Dental Care If you can not afford dental care there are many free and low cost dental care programs in every state of the United States where you can get the care you need and you pay very little or nothing at all. You could be receiving all types of dental care including checkups, cleanings, fluoride treatments,caps, dentures, braces, fillings, dental implants, extractions and much much more.

check out their website: http://freedentalcare.com/

FreeDentalCare@FreeDentalCare.Com

Provision Project Spreading seeds of HOPE to the hurting. The mission of Provision Project is to provide financial relief to women in active treatment for breast cancer. The breast cancer battle is real. The news of diagnosis is hard to receive. Treatment is scary. And for some women, life has become nearly impossible. Marriages have ended. Jobs have been lost, or they’re too sick to work. Now, in addition to fighting for their lives, they are battling to keep up with the most basic of bills: food, rent, utilities, gas, medical co-pays. It’s heartbreaking. That’s why Provision Project was created. Provision Project makes a way for women in active breast cancer treatment to receive tangible help quickly. We hope you’ll join us.

Apply thru website: http://provisionproject.org/

Provision Project

PO Box 42066

Mesa, AZ 85274

Click here to check out our complete Cancer Butterfly Foundation Grant List

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Questions??? please feel to join and ask questions in our private facebook group – “Breast Cancer Financial Help & Resources -Cancer Butterfly”

History of the Butterfly symbol

Butterflies are deep and powerful representations of life. Many cultures associate the butterfly with our souls. The Christian religion sees the butterfly as a symbol of resurrection. Around the world, people view the butterfly as representing endurance, change, hope, and life.

Butterflies symbolize life struggles that people have endured to emerge as a better person.

Imagine your entire physical being changing to such an extreme that you are unrecognizable at the end of the transformation. Keep in mind, this change takes place in a short span of about a month (that’s the length of the butterfly life cycle). This is the deepest symbolic lesson of the butterfly. She asks us to accept the changes in our lives as casually as she does. The butterfly unquestioningly embraces the changes of her environment and her body. This unwavering acceptance of her metamorphosis is also symbolic of FAITH. Here the butterfly requests us to KEEP OUR FAITH as we move toward these changes throughout our lives. She understands that our worrying, frustration, and anger are useless against the constant changes of nature – she asks us to recognize the same.

Christianity believes the butterfly to be a symbol for the soul. We are all on a long journey of the soul through our lives. On this journey we encounter endless curves, swerves, and up-hill roads that cause us to emerge into finer beings. At our soul-journey’s end we are inevitably changed – not at all the same as when we started on our road. Our mission is to make our way in faith, accept the change that comes, and emerge from our transitions as gracefully as the butterfly.

To Native Americans the meaning of the Butterfly symbol signifies transformation. The butterfly is also believed to be a messenger from the spirit world. The message the butterfly brings depends on their color. A black butterfly indicates bad news or illness, yellow brings hope and guidance, brown signifies important news, red signifies an important event and white signifies good luck. A butterfly who lands on your shoulder brings you comfort……..may a butterfly land on your shoulder soon.

As you go through your cancer treatment may you be reminded of the butterfly and may she help bring you peace as she flies past 🙂

To help ease your burden as you go through cancer treatment we have a lot of resources available to help with chemotherapy cost, chemotherapy side effects, and radiation treatment costs. Click the compass below to check out all the FREE Resources available:

If your “Fairy Godmother” could give you cancer treatment advice

She would say….

“You must let your friends and family help you whenever possible during your treatment. This is the time to take friends and family up on any offers of help!”

If a friend or family member says…..”What can I do to help?”…. You NEED to say “I could use help with…”

Have a list ready of things that you know you could use help with.

Here are a few suggestions of things that others could DO to help you while you go through treatment:

Deliver a meal or two through your meal train
Clean your bathrooms, vacuum & dust, or clean your entire house 🙂
Do your family’s laundry
Mow your lawn or weed flower beds
Water your plants
Pick up your groceries
Babysit your kids so you can take a nap
Wash your car

If things are in order around your home, you will feel less stressed and be more at peace which will greatly help you through your treatment.

The further along you go into treatment the more tired you will be and the less energy you will have, so it is really a good idea to let people start helping you right away because if you wait until you really need it you may be way too tired to even try to schedule the help you need at that point. Better to get in a good schedule of receiving help from the beginning of treatment so that friends and family can slowly work helping you into their own personal schedules too so it is easier on everyone.

Bottom line is…..your friends and family will want to help you and you NEED to let them help. It is good for all involved because you need the help and it will let them give you the gift of helping and give them something to do that will really help you.

Cancer Butterfly has a lot of FREE Resources available to help you get through cancer treatment more comfortably.

Why keeping your cancer medical paperwork organized is important

Once you are diagnosed with cancer it is very frightening and overwhelming to just process all the medical information you are receiving, not to mention everything you need to now keep track of as far as paperwork.

It will be much easier for you if you just start out organized from the beginning of your treatment (or at least start where you are now) if at all possible. I remember once I started and continued through chemotherapy for breast cancer, it got more and more difficult to concentrate on things like reading a book, watching a movie, or focusing on any kind of paperwork.

Keeping things simple and having a specific place for everything will make things much easier and you will be able to stay on top of your paperwork much better and find what you need when you need it if you are organized.

There are several money saving programs available to help cancer patients with their cancer treatment related out of pocket co-pays. These programs require specific information from your medical paperwork (EOB’s – Explanation of Benefit) forms from your health insurance regarding each of your medical visits in order for them to determine your out of pocket expenses. Once you have all your information in order you will be ready to apply for Cancer Grants and Cancer treatment medical discounts.