You're not alone on the cerebral palsy journey.
About 1 in 345 children in the U.S. have cerebral palsy. When insurance won't cover therapies, equipment, and unexpected expenses, SupportNow helps families bring their community together to help.
Free to start. SupportNow never charges your family a platform fee.
One link for everything your child needs
The same link that buys the power chair can organize rides to therapy.
A SupportNow fundraiser lives inside a Support Page: money, meals, and helping hands in one place. Supporters give what they can, sign up for what you need, and follow your child's progress without you retelling the story.
Donations
Every gift goes to your family
Rides and errands
Help getting to therapy and appointments
Meal signups
Dinner covered on the hardest weeks
Updates
Share the wins once, in one place
Your family's journey is unique. Your support should be too.
SupportNow helps you organize support for therapies, equipment, procedures, and the everyday moments in between.
Mobility equipment
Recurring as they growWheelchairs, walkers, standers, and orthotics. A power chair runs around $7,000; orthotics get replaced every 6 to 12 months.
Therapy beyond the cap
The weekly workPT, OT, speech, and intensives once your visit limit runs out. Cash sessions run $75 to a few hundred dollars each.
Communication devices
A voiceAAC and eye-gaze devices give a nonverbal child a way to be heard. A dedicated device can run around $20,000, and insurance often fights it.
Procedures and surgery
The big interventionsSDR surgery ($20,000 to $40,000), a Baclofen pump (about $28,500 the first year), and Botox for spasticity, plus travel to specialists.
Home modifications
An accessible homeRamps, ceiling lifts, widened doorways, and an accessible bathroom, which commonly runs $9,000 to $40,000.
An accessible vehicle
Getting everywhereA wheelchair-accessible van gets the family to therapy and school. A conversion runs $10,000 to $25,000; a new converted van, $60,000 to $100,000.
Plus the everyday things: feeding supplies, adaptive seating, and the bikes and sensory gear that let your child just be a kid. The money goes to your family, so you decide what it covers, this year and the next.
Everyone keeps asking how they can help. This is a real answer.
Cerebral palsy can feel too big for people to know where to start. Your fundraiser gives their care somewhere to go, this year and for years to come.
An answer to "how can I help?"
Starting one can feel like admitting you can't do it all alone. It is the opposite. It:
- Tells people what your child is working toward
- Gives the people who keep asking a real way to show up
- Lets your community carry a piece of a lifelong load
It starts with one link and your child's story.
Start your SupportNow fundraiser page in 3 steps.
No fundraising experience needed, and you don't have to be the parent to run it.
Tell your story
About 10 minutes. Share what your child is working toward and the equipment or therapy that would help. We guide you with prompts.
Invite your people
Share one link with family, friends, church, coworkers, and your therapy community. They have been waiting for something real to do.
Use it where it's needed
Funds go to your family as donations come in, no waiting to hit a goal. The power chair, the therapy block, the next orthotics. You decide.
Give a little, every month. It adds up.
Cerebral palsy is a marathon, not a one-time bill. Supporters can choose to give monthly, so the help arrives on the same rhythm as the need.
How families actually fund cerebral palsy care
There is real help out there, and most of it is slower and smaller than the need. Here is the honest picture.
Where the usual options fall short
- Insurance caps visits, denies equipment, and drags appeals out for months
- Medicaid waivers are valuable, but many states have long waitlists
- Grants are competitive, restricted, and rarely arrive on time
Where families actually find relief
- Community fundraising is flexible in a way no single program is, and covers what grants won't
- Loan closets and exchanges bridge you between sizes while you raise for the next one
- Your people give more than money. Rides, meals, and childcare count too
Built for families, not fine print
SupportNow is the Official Family Support Platform. We help families rally support through life's hardest, longest seasons, and raising a child with cerebral palsy is exactly that. Starting is free, and the money belongs to your family.
Start Fundraising →The money is yours
Funds go to your family as donations come in. No waiting to hit a goal.
Built for the long haul
Keep one registry going for years, and reopen it every time your child outgrows the last thing.
One link for supporters
Donations, ride signups, updates, and thank-yous all live in one place.
Private by default
You control what you share about your child, and who sees it. Always.
Cerebral palsy fundraiser FAQs
What can a cerebral palsy fundraiser cover?
Can I keep the same fundraiser going year after year?
Can a grandparent or friend run it for us?
Will donations affect Medicaid or disability benefits?
Is it really free?
Focus on your child. Let your people carry the weight.
Set up takes about 10 minutes. Share one link, and the people who love your child start showing up today, and keep showing up, year after year.
Free to start. Keep what you raise, even if you don't reach your goal.