Outstanding Children’s Cancer charity. The fact that they are anonymous to the child when giving a gift or experience during their last phase of their life due to dying of cancer is so different and helps create that one more memory.
The parents get the credit when the Foundation makes the child’s dream come true or gets the parent off work so they can lay in the bed and spend the final times w their sick child. It helps the parents as well because it is need based So it would not have happened without the foundation and you know every parent wants to be able to do something very special for their dying child. Truly Medicine of the Heart.
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- EIN 75-2641482
- 6500 Greenville Ave Ste 342 Dallas TX 75206 USA
- www.claytondabney.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Gift Distribution, Human Services
Mission: "The Clayton Dabney Foundation provides needy families, with children in the last stages of terminal cancer, assistance in creating everlasting memories." This 501c3 organization was established in honor of Clayton Dabney who died at the age of six from mucle tissue cancer in 1995. Children's Medical Center of Dallas estimates that they will diagnose approxiamtely 180 new children's cancer malignancies each year, of which, 20% will become terminal. This estimate is true for most all major children's cancer centers in the US. More than half of these families are struggling financially. Our goal at CDF is to provide the last wishes of these dying children and help provide the families enhanced quality of life and joyful memories for their children before the end. For when the child is gone all that's left are the memories.
Target demographics: families losing a child to cancer
Direct beneficiaries per year: 300 families nationwide
Geographic areas served: contact with social workers and nurses
Programs: financial assistance at end of life