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Chance for Hope Foundation

Meal Delivery Program · About this organization

What you get

Free healthy meals delivered to you during your child’s inpatient cancer treatment.

How to start

Ask the foundation how meal delivery is arranged.

Good to know

  • The meal-delivery schedule isn't published; ask when a delivery is planned.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Call To Confirm

Chance for Hope states that volunteers deliver healthy meal options at no cost to families of children receiving inpatient cancer treatment at Texas Children's Hospital and MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital. The page describes four deliveries per month, but its newest dated delivery entry is December 21, 2021 and no 2026 dates or family request route are published.

What help you may get

Meals And Food

Meal Delivery Program — meals and food

Chance for Hope states that volunteers deliver healthy meal options at no cost to families of children receiving inpatient cancer treatment at Texas Children's Hospital and MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital. The page describes four deliveries per month, but its newest dated delivery entry is December 21, 2021 and no 2026 dates or family request route are published.

Amount not published

Practical Items And Home Help

Meal Delivery Program — practical items and home help

Chance for Hope states that volunteers deliver healthy meal options at no cost to families of children receiving inpatient cancer treatment at Texas Children's Hospital and MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital. The page describes four deliveries per month, but its newest dated delivery entry is December 21, 2021 and no 2026 dates or family request route are published.

Amount not published

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. Pediatric B-ALL is within the published pediatric-cancer audience.

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

Treatment must be through: Texas Children's Hospital or MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital inpatient pediatric cancer care.

  • Texas Children's Hospital or MD Anderson Children's Cancer Hospital inpatient pediatric cancer care
Where the service, camp, stay, or experience happens
  • Texas — Texas — Texas
  • Houston — Houston

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. Hospital distribution and family selection are not published; contact the foundation to confirm.

Ways to apply or ask

  • Automatic Distribution
  • In Person

Documents to prepare

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

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsCall To Confirm
Funding or spaceNot Published
Application windowNot Published
Last checkedAug 24, 2026

Limitations and things to confirm

  • No current dated delivery cycle, recipient selection, amount, or request route is published.
  • Is the program operating in 2026, and how are families selected?

Official sources

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

Official program