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The Gold Hope Project

Fighter Photo Session · About this organization

What you get

Free volunteer photography of your child and family, with at least 10 digital images.

How to start

For an urgent photo session, email or use the contact form and explain the circumstances. For routine requests, check the Fighters page for application news.

Good to know

  • Extra photos or products may cost money.
  • Urgent requests still depend on a volunteer photographer.

The details, as published

B-ALL is in scope Application Window Closed

The Gold Hope Project coordinates free volunteer portrait sessions for current and former pediatric cancer patients age 21 or younger, with family photos and at least 10 digital images. Routine applications are temporarily paused, urgent or emergent families may contact the organization, and all fulfillment depends on a local volunteer photographer and required consent or model release.

What help you may get

Camps And Retreats

Fighter Photo Session — camps and retreats

The Gold Hope Project coordinates free volunteer portrait sessions for current and former pediatric cancer patients age 21 or younger, with family photos and at least 10 digital images. Routine applications are temporarily paused, urgent or emergent families may contact the organization, and all fulfillment depends on a local volunteer photographer and required consent or model release.

Amount not published

Peer And Emotional Support

Fighter Photo Session — peer and emotional support

The Gold Hope Project coordinates free volunteer portrait sessions for current and former pediatric cancer patients age 21 or younger, with family photos and at least 10 digital images. Routine applications are temporarily paused, urgent or emergent families may contact the organization, and all fulfillment depends on a local volunteer photographer and required consent or model release.

Amount not published

Practical Items And Home Help

Fighter Photo Session — practical items and home help

The Gold Hope Project coordinates free volunteer portrait sessions for current and former pediatric cancer patients age 21 or younger, with family photos and at least 10 digital images. Routine applications are temporarily paused, urgent or emergent families may contact the organization, and all fulfillment depends on a local volunteer photographer and required consent or model release.

Amount not published

Wishes And Family Experiences

Fighter Photo Session — wishes and family experiences

The Gold Hope Project coordinates free volunteer portrait sessions for current and former pediatric cancer patients age 21 or younger, with family photos and at least 10 digital images. Routine applications are temporarily paused, urgent or emergent families may contact the organization, and all fulfillment depends on a local volunteer photographer and required consent or model release.

Amount not published

Why this may help

Wishes And Family Experiences: A family photo session gives you an experience together and images to keep.

Check the main eligibility rules

Diagnosis

B-ALL is in scope. B-ALL is pediatric cancer and all treatment, remission, and survivorship stages are expressly eligible through age 21, subject to the pause and local photographer availability.

Age

Age 0 to age 21, measured at service date.

  • Current and past childhood-cancer patients age 21 and younger are eligible.

Treatment status

Active Treatment, Survivorship

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. For routine requests, monitor the Fighters page for application reopening.
  2. For urgent or emergent needs, email info@goldhopeproject.com or use the contact form and explain the circumstances.
  3. If accepted, complete consent/release and coordinate with an available volunteer photographer.

Ways to apply or ask

Documents to prepare

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

Availability and timing

ProgramActive
ApplicationsApplication Window Closed
Funding or spaceNot Published
Application windowRolling
Last checkedAug 27, 2026
  • Routine new applications are temporarily paused; urgent or emergent families may contact the organization directly.
  • The ordinary statement that most sessions schedule within two weeks is conditional on application receipt and photographer availability and does not apply to paused routine intake.
  • Urgent or emergent contact is available but does not guarantee a session.

Limitations and things to confirm

  • Only 10 or more digital images are clearly guaranteed free; extras may cost money.
  • Photographer availability controls fulfillment.
  • Routine intake is paused with no reopening date or waitlist.
  • Urgent contact is not a guarantee.
  • Verification, session/lifetime limits, geography, release/publication alternatives, accessibility, infection control, rescheduling, language, and partner-print terms are not fully published.
  • Confirm reopening, urgent criteria, verification, matching, geography, lifetime/session rules, model-release privacy, accessibility, health precautions, print benefit, language, and directory freshness.

Official sources

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

Official program