Hi Cherry.  Indeed you are a generous and caring person.  I don’t know if this information will help you at all, but I just finished holding a fund raiser for my 37 year old best friend who is in end stage breast cancer. She has two young children and her husband is partially paralized from a stroke that he had when he was 34.

We found that all you need is to let people know someone needs help and the rest will take care of itself.  If you have a local Rotary Club, they are always looking for something or someone to donate to.  Churches can hold a special collection for the family and many people would be willing to go over to the house and help clean, cook meals, mow the lawn, shovel the driveway, do laundry and even help them plan out the funeral and help put together a "memory board" to be displayed at the services.  If you can help by contacting a local paper and put in a "human interest" story with information at the end as to where people can send donations that might help as well.

We held a silent auction/dinner dance and raised over $45,000 for my friend’s  children’s college fund.

Good luck and God bless.