We Support the Children's Cancer Association!

“Our tagline, ‘When families need support, Alexandra’s there,’ celebrates Alexandra’s beautiful spirit and maintains her name as an important part of who we are. Our unique logo is a gleaming heart that Alexandra drew in May 1995.”

Would you like to help families devastated by childhood cancer but don’t know which charity to give to? Let us help.

Without harming animals, as some cancer charities do, the Children’s Cancer Association (CCA) provides parents struggling to learn how to best care for their ailing children with the resources that they need and the support that they deserve while enriching the lives of sick children by giving them an outlet for anger, fear, anxiety, and boredom, allowing them to just be kids in the midst of frightening, painful, and lonely illnesses.

For the parents of 5-year-old Alexandra Ellis, her courage, hope, and joy—even as she battled a terminal illness—were an inspiration. When Alexandra died in 1995, after suffering from cancer for more than two years, her parents established the Children’s Cancer Association as a way to sustain her memory and spread her courage to other children in need.

“Our tagline, ‘When families need support, Alexandra’s there,’ celebrates Alexandra’s beautiful spirit and maintains her name as an important part of who we are. Our unique logo is a gleaming heart that Alexandra drew in May 1995.”
To find out more about CCA and how you can help this heroic, life-saving charity, visit ChildrensCancerAssociation.org or write to:

Children’s Cancer Association
7524 S.W. Macadam, Ste. B
Portland, OR 97219

Helping Without Hurting

Inspired by Alexandra’s story and the fact that her mother—Regina Ellis, CCA’s founder and executive director—chose not to rely on archaic animal tests, PETA recently honored Ellis with a Life-Saver Charity Award for her work helping humans without hurting animals.

Donations to the charity support programs such as the MusicRXSM program, which hosts symphony concerts and karaoke nights for children and provides musical instruments and instruction to kids in hospitals; the DreamCatcher Wish program, which “catches” wishes that may go unfulfilled by other organizations; and the Caring Cabin, a rural lakeside respite from the sterile and stressful hospital environment.

CCA also opened the Alexandra Ellis Resource Center, a library of information for studying pediatric illnesses, injuries, burns, and diseases.