No More Umbrellas Foundation
Heart of Gold Hardship Assistance · About this organization
What you get
Help with bills, family activities, gas, groceries and other current family needs.
How to start
Fill in and sign the hardship application. Ask your social worker or provider to sign their section, then email or mail the completed form.
Good to know
- Awards depend on available funds and are not promised.
- No award amount or frequency rule is published.
The details, as published
No More Umbrellas Foundation's Heart of Gold fund offers cash hardship assistance to Central Florida families whose child has pediatric cancer or another life-threatening illness. The official page says assistance may be used for a current need such as groceries, gas, bills, or family activities. A parent completes and signs the application, and a social worker or provider must also sign and identify the treating hospital before the form is emailed or mailed to the foundation. Awards depend on available funds, and the public materials do not state a grant amount or a numerical pediatric age limit.
What help you may get
Household Bills And Cash Assistance
Heart of Gold Hardship Assistance — household bills and cash assistance
No More Umbrellas Foundation's Heart of Gold fund offers cash hardship assistance to Central Florida families whose child has pediatric cancer or another life-threatening illness. The official page says assistance may be used for a current need such as groceries, gas, bills, or family activities. A parent completes and signs the application, and a social worker or provider must also sign and identify the treating hospital before the form is emailed or mailed to the foundation. Awards depend on available funds, and the public materials do not state a grant amount or a numerical pediatric age limit.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Bills
- Family activities
- Gas
- Groceries
- Other current family needs
- The official page and application do not publish an award amount.
- No repeat-award rule is published.
Meals And Food
Heart of Gold Hardship Assistance — meals and food
No More Umbrellas Foundation's Heart of Gold fund offers cash hardship assistance to Central Florida families whose child has pediatric cancer or another life-threatening illness. The official page says assistance may be used for a current need such as groceries, gas, bills, or family activities. A parent completes and signs the application, and a social worker or provider must also sign and identify the treating hospital before the form is emailed or mailed to the foundation. Awards depend on available funds, and the public materials do not state a grant amount or a numerical pediatric age limit.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Bills
- Family activities
- Gas
- Groceries
- Other current family needs
- The official page and application do not publish an award amount.
- No repeat-award rule is published.
Travel And Transportation
Heart of Gold Hardship Assistance — travel and transportation
No More Umbrellas Foundation's Heart of Gold fund offers cash hardship assistance to Central Florida families whose child has pediatric cancer or another life-threatening illness. The official page says assistance may be used for a current need such as groceries, gas, bills, or family activities. A parent completes and signs the application, and a social worker or provider must also sign and identify the treating hospital before the form is emailed or mailed to the foundation. Awards depend on available funds, and the public materials do not state a grant amount or a numerical pediatric age limit.
Amount not published
Can cover
- Bills
- Family activities
- Gas
- Groceries
- Other current family needs
- The official page and application do not publish an award amount.
- No repeat-award rule is published.
Why this may help
Meals And Food: You can use hardship assistance for groceries as one of your current needs.
Travel And Transportation: Gas is a named use of the hardship assistance alongside bills and other current needs.
Check the main eligibility rules
Diagnosis
B-ALL is in scope. The official program expressly serves families with a child who has pediatric cancer; pediatric B-ALL is within that diagnosis scope.
Age
The program does not publish an age limit.
- The official materials use the terms child and pediatric but do not publish numerical age limits.
Treatment status
No specific treatment status is published.
- A provider must verify the patient or diagnosis.
- A social worker or provider must sign the application and identify the child's hospital.
Financial need is required.
- The program is described as hardship assistance, but no income threshold or required income documentation is published.
- The request must be for hardship assistance associated with the family's situation.
Where you live and where your child is treated
Where your family lives
You must live in: Published program service area in US-FL.
- The family must live in Central Florida.
- The program explicitly serves Central Florida families. Florida is confirmed, but the exact Central Florida boundary remains local and must be confirmed.
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.
Who can start: Parent Or Guardian
- Ask a social worker or provider to complete and sign the provider section.
- Complete the Hardship Funds Assistance Application with the patient's diagnosis and family contact information.
- Email the application to emily@nomoreumbrellas.org or mail it to P.O. Box 313, Durant, FL 33530.
- Sign the parent certification acknowledging that funding is not guaranteed and depends on available funds.
Ways to apply or ask
- Downloadable Form · Open form or page
Documents to prepare
- Completed Hardship Funds Assistance Application signed by a parent
- Social-worker or provider signature and hospital information
Availability and timing
| Program | Active |
|---|---|
| Applications | Not Published |
| Funding or space | Fund Dependent |
| Application window | Rolling |
| Last checked | Aug 24, 2026 |
- The official page linked a current hardship application on the verification date.
- The signed application states that awards are based on the availability of funds and submission does not guarantee funding.
- The application does not publish fixed submission dates.
- No review lead time is published.
Limitations and things to confirm
- Awards depend on available funds and are not guaranteed.
- No award amount or frequency rule is published.
- The application requires a social-worker or provider signature.
- The family must live in Central Florida, but the public page does not define the included counties.
- Can a family receive more than one hardship award?
- How are approved funds delivered?
- How long does review take?
- What are the minimum and maximum patient ages?
- What is the maximum award amount?
- Which counties or cities are included in Central Florida?
Official sources
Program details were last verified Aug 24, 2026. Availability can change, so check the official program before applying.
- Hardship Funds Assistance Application · checked Aug 24, 2026
- Hardship Funds Assistance Application · checked Aug 23, 2026
- No More Umbrellas Foundation · checked Aug 23, 2026
- Quarterly Gas and Grocery Gift Card Support · checked Aug 24, 2026