Cancer Support
community

Kier's Kidz helps young adults (19 to 29 years), adolescents and children with cancer..  We also serve as a cancer support community in New Jersey to help children and adolescents who have lost a parent or sibling to cancer. We are working to help make all cancer – including childhood cancer – an illness of the past.
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Why We Care About Childhood Cancer

Kier's Kidz is Kiersten Hickman-Perfetti's legacy of love and hope for young adults, adolescents and kids with cancer. As such, we at Kier’s Kidz keep the spirit of Kiersten alive in all that we do for the children and the young people we help.

Each member of our all-volunteer Board has a deep and abiding interest in helping young adults, adolescents and children with cancer and their families.  Each of us has been affected by the cancer of someone we love. We are committed to helping others in their battles.  No Board member or volunteer is paid. We’re also working to help researchers find cancer cures and to raise pediatric cancer awareness.

How We Help Families Coping with Cancer

Visit our Helping Kids with Cancer page on this website to discover all the support services we offer to patients and their families. You will also learn how our financial support of children at the Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey (CINJ) helps to underwrite the cost of DNA sequencing of individual children with cancer and to underwrite The Childhood Cancer Therapy Development Institute’s research efforts to find better cancer cures and treatments for rare pediatric cancers

Refer someone to us

To refer your own child, adolescent, young adult or yourself, to us for help with coping with cancer, please email us at kierskidz@me.com and describe your circumstances.  Always include your name, town and state, and your phone number.

To refer a child, adolescent or young adult other than your immediate family member, email us at keirskidz@me.com and describe the current circumstances, your relationship to the person with cancer, including that person's town and state of residence, and your phone number.

How You Can Help Young Adults and Kids With Cancer

You can help by:

• Donating to Kier’s Kidz, our NJ 501(c)(3) nonprofit.
• Becoming a major donor.
• Volunteering to work on a project with us.
• Volunteering to work on our Board.
• Designating Kier's Kidz as your nonprofit of choice to receive an Amazon donation every time you buy something through Amazon. Go to smile.amazon.com to participate.  Doing so costs you nothing and rewards Kier's Kidz with a donation of .5% of the cost of eligible items you buy at Amazon. So, you help young adults, adolescents and kids with cancer and you support finding a cancer cure, while you shop!
• Hosting a Kier's Kidz event at your home, workplace, house of worship, club or organization.  We will be there to help.
• Encouraging your workplace, house of worship, club or service organization to host an event for Kier's Kidz.
• Encouraging your children or your friends to do a community- or school-based event to raise funds for and awareness of Kier's Kidz and the people we help. Childhood cancer awareness begins with you!

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