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Brave Like Ellie

Brave Boxes · About this organization

What you get

Help with toys, activities, hand-selected comfort items, dress-up costumes, items for patients, siblings, and parents and family photo session.

How to start

Check the nomination page for the next chance to apply. You can nominate yourself or ask someone you trust.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Closed

Personalized care packages support the child with cancer, siblings, and parents with toys, activities, comfort items, dress-up play, or a family photo session; nominations are currently closed.

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What help you may get

Practical Items And Home Help

Personalized Brave Box

A personalized care package may include toys, activities, hand-selected comfort items, or dress-up costumes for the patient, siblings, and parents.

Amount not published

1 items per award

Can cover

  • Toys
  • Activities
  • Hand-selected comfort items
  • Dress-up costumes
  • Items for patients, siblings, and parents

Does not cover

  • Financial assistance
  • One personalized Brave Box is described per nomination; repeat eligibility is not published.

Wishes And Family Experiences

Photography Box

A Photography Box provides a family photo session so the child and family can capture their story.

Amount not published

1 items per award

Can cover

  • Family photo session
  • The page describes a family photo session.

Why this may help

Wishes And Family Experiences: A Photography Box includes a family photo session to capture your story together.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. B-ALL is a pediatric cancer and fits the published diagnosis scope.

Age

Age 0 to age 17, measured at application.

  • The family must have a child under 18 diagnosed with cancer.

Treatment status

Newly Diagnosed, Active Treatment, Maintenance Treatment, Relapse Or Recurrence, Post Treatment, Survivorship

  • Families are served at any stage from diagnosis and treatment through remission.
  • No financial-need test is published.

Where you live and where your child is treated

Where your family lives

You must live in: United States.

  • Boxes ship only within the United States.

Where your child is treated

No treatment-location restriction is published.

Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
  • United States shipping — Brave Boxes are shipped to eligible families in the United States. — United States

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.

Who can start: Parent Or Guardian, Patient, Caregiver, Community Referrer

  1. Check the official nomination page for reopening; when open, self-nominate or ask any trusted person to nominate the family.
  2. After nomination, respond when Brave Like Ellie contacts the family to learn each family member's interests and preferences.

Ways to apply or ask

  • Web Form · Open form or page — The nomination form is removed while nominations are closed.

Documents to prepare

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

  • After a nomination is received, program staff contact the family to gather interests and preferences and curate the box.

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsClosed
Funding or spaceLimited
Application windowSeasonal
Last checkedAug 27, 2026
  • The organization continues serving existing families, but new nominations are closed.
  • Nominations are currently closed; no reopening date is published.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • Nominations are currently closed.
  • Child must be under 18 and diagnosed with pediatric cancer.
  • Boxes ship only within the United States.
  • The program does not provide financial assistance.
  • When will nominations reopen and what will the reopened form require?

Official sources

Program details were last verified Aug 27, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.

Official program