The Nicholas Colby Fund^® has established trustworthy relationships with children's hospitals beginning with those in the San Francisco Bay Area enabling the Fund to proactively develop and deliver personal experiences for patients and their families from around the world. The Fund also provides the children's hospitals with a path for requests to be fulfilled whenever a need may develop at a hospital. And executives of the Fund speak in corporate and community settings on behalf of research toward developing better treatments and finding cures for blood cancers.

Since 2006 the Fund has now directly helped over 2,500 patients and their family members creating uplifting experiences for them to have one more opportunity to smile.  [Events/experiences (including basketball clinics with the Golden State Warriors), nutritional packs in the pediatric intensive care unit, backpacks to newly diagnosed cancer patients, live musical experiences in the hospital, and more.]

We continually create and develop events & experiences toward helping many more children (and their families) to have a treasured moment or two. We believe we are truly making a difference – Helping Children Be Children^®. We trust you, too, will realize that it is so inspiring to see smiles on the faces of the children (and their families) who have not had many recent opportunities to smile.

Throughout this website you will experience inspirational stories through words and pictures, testimonials, and loving actions uplifting spirits & delivering smiles, along with pictures that tell a beautiful story of time before and a time today about our little-sunshine's love! Youngest of 4 boys, Nicholas—truly—illuminates with rays of sunshine that warms your heart. His strength, energy, enthusiasm, joy, & endless passion for caring about others and sharing were amazing. And he is our guiding light always & forever.

You will experience an abundance of these loving touches referring to:

• "Journal and Journal History" & "Guestbook and Guestbook History" under Participate

• "Nicholas In Pictures" under About Nicholas.  (The pictures are before and during diagnosis and treatment)

Why the Nicholas Colby Fund^® exists

Until there is a cure for cancer the Nicholas Colby Fund^®, a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization, will continually create and deliver an array of events & experiences Helping Children Be Children^®.  And when there is a cure The Nicholas Colby Fund^® will be there uplifting the spirits of survivors.

Objectives capturing the essence of what the Fund is accomplishing

Help create lasting childhood memories by providing exceptional playful opportunities that uplift the spirit of a child diagnosed with cancer, a degenerating condition, or other life-threatening illness. With awareness and sensitivity deliver amazing experiences for children and their families through trusted acts of love and compassion, Helping Children Be Children^®.

The Nicholas Colby Fund^® has established trustworthy relationships with children hospitals in the San Francisco Bay Area enabling the Fund to proactively develop and deliver personal experiences for patients and their families from around the world.

The Fund also provides the children's hospitals with a path for requests to be fulfilled whenever a need may develop at a hospital. And executives of the Fund speaks in corporate and community settings on behalf of research toward developing better treatments and finding cures for blood cancers.   Since 2006 the Fund has now directly helped over 2,000 patients and their family members creating uplifting experiences for them to have one more opportunity to smile.

SEE EVERYTHING ABOUT THE NICHOLAS COLBY FUND^®

• By looking at the main menu bar above and clicking on Welcome, About Us, About Nicholas, What We Do, etc. 

• By clicking on What We Do to access its drop down menu items

• By noticing on some of the drop down menu items, there are side menu items to click on

We welcome you to volunteer and/or be a sponsor in our efforts toward Helping Children Be Children^®. This can be accomplished in any way that you feel comfortable, whether it is volunteering your time or special talents, offering valuable contacts, or becoming a sponsor. Browsing through this website you will see love through caring, sharing, and giving that is generating smiles on the faces of children whose lives have changed forever because of a cancer, a degenerating condition, or other life-threatening illness. And you will find stories of some of the people and organizations that have already helped us to generate smiles.

Sponsors, Partners, and/or Corporate Collaborators
Golden State Warriors professional basketball organization
Learning Technology Partners
DiGrande Web Designs
Admac Digital Imaging
Diablo Foods of Lafayette
Games Unlimited of Danville
LeapFrog International
The Gabby Krause Foundation
Samsonite (luggage)
Pixar Animation Studios
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
TOWNSEND and TOWNSEND and CREW LLP
Papyrus-Lafayette
Saklan Valley School An Independent School for Preschool Through 8th Grade
sewnow!

Volunteer and or become a sponser

The Nicholas Colby Fund^® provides opportunities for families to honor their child undergoing treatment or now in Heaven. This is accomplished through connections with families who learned or experienced the Nicholas Colby Fund^® and medical staff directing families to the Fund. Collaboratively, we identify opportunities to develop and/or augment events/experiences toward Helping Children Be Children^®.