Extracurriculars...specifically, starting a non proft.

Senior0991
Mon, 04 May 2009 23:00:37 +0000

^Yeah, good point there as well. I just realized that the OP would specifically helping cancer patients. For those without insurance, costs run into the hundreds of thousands of dollars, and for those with insurance, up to the maximum per year payment if they have one (I’m not an authority on this, but just from what I’ve heard before).

Food deliveries would be a lot easier and less costly, but they might have that covered. If you still want to help cancer patients, think of what you could do to improve their lives that is within feasible means for a new nonprofit. Here’s a good example: there is this organization that brings diseased veterans to Washington DC on a plane. They could pay the veterans’ medical costs, but this is a different, cheaper way to give the dying veterans a happy week (similar to make a wish).

And don’t go through all that official mumbo-jumbo somebody else mentioned. Just start an organization, don’t get big enough to get noticed by the government, and that’s in essence a nonprofit.

Oh yeah, and I doubt the organization will give you 1000 dollars unless you have a sound business plan, but you might as well check anyways.