Frequently, children with cancer have lengthy outpatient clinic visits or hospital stays, and CURE helps by providing several things for patient families. If you are looking to support children and families affected by childhood cancer, there are many ways you can assist families currently in treatment. From meal and snack bags to toiletry bags, no-sew blankets, and more, our CURE Family Support Programs offer immediate assistance. We also provide birthday bags for children celebrating a birthday while in the hospital and caregiver respite kits. Should you be interested in these, suggested items will be sent to interested volunteers.

This is an excellent volunteer opportunity for businesses, school groups, or other organizations to get involved and benefit childhood cancer research and family support.

CURE serves lunches and dinners on regularly scheduled dates at the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (Egleston & Scottish Rite campuses) and The Memorial Health Dwaine and Cynthia Willett Children’s Hospital of Savannah.

For more information on sponsoring and serving an Open Arms Meal:

In Atlanta, email Emily Jordan at [email protected].

In Savannah, email Allena Hendrix at [email protected].

We are often in need of volunteers in the office to help with a variety of administrative tasks. You can assist us by organizing and sorting items donated by the community, assembling CURE Patient Family Outreach Totes, folding and tagging t-shirts for Nurses’ Week and Social Worker/Child Life Specialist Week, providing Spanish translation assistance, and performing various other tasks as needed.

CURE has many fun events throughout the year, and we need volunteers to help us make them a success. Here are some specific volunteer opportunities:

• Quiet Heroes – March – Volunteers are needed for our special annual luncheon to honor mothers of children with cancer.
• Laurens Run & Picnic – The last Sunday in April. There are many volunteer opportunities for this fun family event.
• CURE Family Summer Party – June. Volunteers are needed to host craft tables and more at a party for patients and their families.
• CURE Flag Program – July-September. Volunteers are needed to serve as neighborhood captains to help get the word out about this important fundraiser benefiting childhood cancer research, and to encourage neighbors, friends, etc. to purchase flags.
• CURE Holiday Party – Early December. Volunteers are needed at a festive party for the entire family who have a child currently battling cancer or has battled cancer.
• CURE Holiday Angel Program – November/December. We match families in need with donors who would like to provide holiday gifts for children receiving cancer treatment, their siblings, and parents.
• Join one of our incredible silent auction committees, helping to obtain auction items.