Throughout the year, BTFC offers fun family activities to include our annual Fishing Extravaganza, Boating Bonanza and Holiday Party. In addition to our annual events, we host picnics, social/emotional support groups for parents (in and out of hospital) and are often able to offer tickets to sporting events. Our events are structured in such a way that relationships are built between families who share a common bond – pediatric brain tumor disease.
Our financial assistance program, the Butterfly Fund, offers direct financial assistance to qualified families of children treated at specific hospitals (see list below). Our fund typically helps with household expenses (i.e. mortgage/rent, utilities, phone, car payments) that a family may not be able to afford due to missed work/loss of employment associated with diagnosis as well as travel costs associated with treatment, medical items not covered by insurance, and funeral expenses.
