Amy’s Treat Amy’s Treat is dedicated to providing solutions to the day-to-day difficulties of living with cancer and offers unexpected “treats” to renew the spirit. Whether supplying box seats to a Red Sox game, offering a quiet getaway to a lovely inn or presenting a gas card to help take the sting out of getting to treatment, Amy’s Treat enriches the lives of hundreds of individuals living with cancer.
Annie’s Angels Annie’s Angels is dedicated to helping local families struggling financially through a life threatening disease, illness or disability, connecting neighbor to neighbor, friend to friend and business to business in a caring fundraising network. Annie’s Angels offers grants to help cover the costs of various expenses related to illness or disability. They also help members of the community conduct fundraisers by acting as a fiscal sponsor handling bookkeeping duties, preparing deposits, and taking care of IRS reporting.
Dempsey Center The Dempsey Center is a leader in Quality of Life care for individuals and families impacted by cancer. Founded in Lewiston, Maine by actor Patrick Dempsey, the Dempsey Center provides a personalized, holistic and integrated approach to cancer prevention, education and support. All services are provided at no cost to anyone impacted by cancer regardless of their socioeconomic circumstances or where they receive their medical treatment.
Grateful Friends Grateful Friends provides support and unexpected joy to adults living with cancer or going through cancer treatment. Grateful friend offers comfort baskets and bill paying assistance for those in treatment, opportunities to “take a break” by providing resources for entertainment “escapes”, and thank you gifts for caregivers
The Greater Newburyport Ovarian Cancer Awareness (GNOCA) (GNOCA) is volunteer organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the symptoms of ovarian cancer, raising funds for cancer research, and providing support services for women with ovarian cancer within the Greater Newburyport area. For support group information, contact: Deb Green at 978-225-6700 or email info@ocawareness.org .
Insight Meditation Center of Newburyport Insight Meditation Center offers a variety of practice opportunities including daily sittings, classes, retreats, and workshops. The facility includes a lending library with texts from various Buddhist traditions. The center offers opportunities for new students as well as those with a deeper ongoing commitment to practice.
Joe Andruzzi Foundation The Joe Andruzzi Foundation is committed to providing help, hope, and a reason to smile, for New England cancer patients and their families by contributing financial support when it is needed most. Grants are offered for non-medical costs such as rent/mortgages, utilities and other household expenses. Applications are accepted from health care providers on behalf of those requesting support.
The Karen Wellington Foundation The Karen Wellington Foundation puts fun on the calendars of women LIVING with breast cancer and their families, by sending them on special vacations, spa days, dinners out, concerts and other fun-only activities. Due to the restrictions and risks of COVID, KWF also plans “staycations” and gives personalized gift baskets, often with the fanfare of delivery as much fun as the gift itself!
Lucy's Love Bus The mission of Lucy's Love Bus is to improve quality of life for children with cancer and life-threatening illness, to support their families, and to mobilize the next generation of cancer activists. Lucy's Love Bus offers programs and support groups for children with cancer or life-threatening illness and their immediate family members (siblings and parents/legal guardians). Individual funding is also available for children with cancer to receive individual integrative therapies at home, hospital, or hospice.
My Breast Cancer Support The mission of My Breast Cancer Support is to provide financial and emotional support to breast cancer patients throughout the Greater Seacoast area of New Hampshire and Southern Maine on their individual paths toward wellness. They offer a variety of assistance programs and services including grants to pay for groceries, utilities, rent/mortgage as well as family nights out. My Breast Cancer Support also helps patients and families cope by providing, new patient gift bags, books, and other support services such as mentoring for children of women with breast cancer and access to exercise/health programs and retreats.
Miss Pink The Miss Pink Organization supports breast cancer survivors and their families who have been diagnosed with, and are undergoing treatment through programs that promote emotional, physical and financial assistance so patients can focus on healing and time with family
Retts Roost Rett’s Roost sanctuary for families with a child afflicted by cancer based in Ogunquit, Maine, offering a community of loving kindness and supportive activities in a peaceful, natural setting to ease their experience with the disease. View here for upcoming retreats .
Runway for Recovery Runway for Recovery redefines the experience of breast cancer for families by providing opportunities for connection, shared experience, and healing both through its annual Runway event and by providing a combination of financial support and wraparound services from counseling to academic resources. Runway directs vital funds to children who are affected by breast cancer to lessen the burden and obstacles of losing a caregiver to the disease.
Tough Warrior Princesses The Tough Warrior Princesses is a non-profit organization, based in Amesbury, MA, committed to raising funds for cancer research, educating and enlightening the public on the need to find a cure, and providing support to women and their families impacted by cancer. In addition to fundraising events, the Tough Warrior Princesses provide Survivor Baskets to offer comfort and support to women diagnosed with cancer. For more information, email info@toughwarriorprincess.com.
Virginia Thurston Healing Garden The Virginia Thurston Healing Garden Cancer Support Center, best known simply as “The Healing Garden” is a beautiful facility set in 8 acres of quiet woodlands and lovely gardens in Harvard, Massachusetts. Based in the philosophy that a holistic approach to health and wellness will afford a person with cancer the very best chance at great outcomes, they offer supportive complementary care that can be integrated with your conventional medical treatment.
Yoga and Cancer Yoga and Cancer provides free specialized yoga and support for patients, survivors and caregivers, as well as bereavement support in the New Hampshire seacoast and southern Maine area.
YWCA Greater Newburyport Encore Program Since 2009, the YWCA Greater Newburyport has offered a free, 12-week survivorship program for those who have had a cancer diagnosis at any point in their lives. The Encore program includes gentle land exercise, warm water pool exercise, ongoing peer support groups and featured guest speakers and programs. Following the 12-week survivorship program, Encore activities and services are available to all participants who have completed the initial 12-week program on an ongoing basis. For more information, please contact Ilene Harnch-Grady, Health & Wellness Director, Encore Lead Facilitator at 978-465-9922 Ext.13 or email igrady@ywcanewburyport.org.
