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American Children’s Cancer Benevolence Fund

Cancer Care Backpacks and comfort gifts · About this organization

What you get

Cancer Care Backpacks and comfort gifts, which can include encouragement cards, a lion mascot, and a stuffed animal.

How to start

Ask ACCBF about selection or referral for a Cancer Care Backpack or comfort gift.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Not Published

ACCBF distributes Cancer Care Backpacks and child comfort gifts that can include Cards for Courage, a Brave Strong Loved lion mascot, and a stuffed Fun Friend such as a puppy, unicorn, dragon, or safari animal. Donor sponsorship is currently promoted, but recipient selection, request access, geography, age limits, contents, schedule, and capacity are not published.

What help you may get

Peer And Emotional Support

Cancer Care Backpacks and comfort gifts — peer and emotional support

ACCBF distributes Cancer Care Backpacks and child comfort gifts that can include Cards for Courage, a Brave Strong Loved lion mascot, and a stuffed Fun Friend such as a puppy, unicorn, dragon, or safari animal. Donor sponsorship is currently promoted, but recipient selection, request access, geography, age limits, contents, schedule, and capacity are not published.

Amount not published

Practical Items And Home Help

Cancer Care Backpacks and comfort gifts — practical items and home help

ACCBF distributes Cancer Care Backpacks and child comfort gifts that can include Cards for Courage, a Brave Strong Loved lion mascot, and a stuffed Fun Friend such as a puppy, unicorn, dragon, or safari animal. Donor sponsorship is currently promoted, but recipient selection, request access, geography, age limits, contents, schedule, and capacity are not published.

Amount not published

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. The comfort program is for children with cancer, including B-ALL, subject to unpublished selection rules.

Age

The program does not publish an age limit.

Treatment status

No specific treatment status is published.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

Residence coverage is not published clearly; confirm with the program.

Where your child is treated

No treatment-location restriction is published.

How to get started

Does a social worker or care team need to start it? No. A required care-team start is not published; the family can use the available route below.

  1. Contact ACCBF to ask how a child is selected or referred for comfort items.

Documents to prepare

The program does not publish a document checklist. Ask before gathering paperwork.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsNot Published
Funding or spaceNot Published
Application windowRolling
Last checkedAug 24, 2026

Limitations and things to confirm

  • Recipient access, geography, age, cost, contents, frequency, and capacity are not published.
  • How are recipients selected, and what geography, age, cost, contents, frequency, and capacity apply?

Official sources

Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program