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221 Children’s Fund

The 221 Children’s Fund is designed to help Northcentral Montana children up through age 18 who are suffering from a terrible illness or disease, need help with medical expenses or prescriptions, or have any other healthcare needs. The fund can send a child to a camp to cope with a disease, fulfill a lifelong wish of a terminally ill child, or help in other ways. All applications will be reviewed by a committee before approval. A limit of $500 per family per year will be granted.

Submit an Application for 221 Children's Fund

Angel Fund

The Angel Fund is designed to help Northcentral Montana families with children under the age of 18 who have a catastrophic illness. The fund assists with a variety of expenses, including travel and lodging costs, when treatment for their ill child requires the family to travel away from home. All applications will be reviewed by a committee before approval. A limit of $750 per family per year will be granted.

Submit an Application for The Angel Fund

Daisy’s Rainbow Memorial Fund

Daisy's Rainbow Memorial Fund is designed to help northcentral Montana families who have experienced the loss of their child (at 20+ weeks of pregnancy to 18 years of age) by assisting with expenses including but not limited to, funeral costs, cremation, burial, headstone, etc.

Submit an Application for Daisy's Rainbow Memorial Fund

Gift of Life

Gift of Life Housing is a non-profit temporary housing facility for patients and their families traveling for medical treatment at Benefis Health System in Great Falls, Montana.

We have two locations: Gift of Life East, behind the Benefis Sletten Cancer Institute, and Gift of Life West, across from the Benefis West Campus. Both facilities offer RV spaces with water, electricity, and sewer hookups.

Thanks to donor support, Gift of Life Housing has been providing free lodging for the past three decades to Benefis patients who live outside Great Falls – patients and families who may be experiencing the greatest crisis of their lives.

Our Locations

Gift of Life Housing has 28 rooms: 16 apartments on the West Campus, 6 apartments on the East Campus, and 6 smaller “hotel-style” rooms for shorter stays on the East Campus.

West Campus Apartments (16 units, currently under renovation):

  • A separate bedroom with 2 twin beds a queen bed, a dresser, and a closet

  • A living room with a couch/queen hide-a-bed, TV and two foldable TV trays

  • A full kitchen with stove, oven, microwave, coffee pot, and refrigerator, plus cookware, dishes, and cutlery for four.

  • Small dining table and chairs

  • A bathroom with a combination shower and tub

East Campus Apartments (6 units):

  • A separate bedroom with one queen bed, dresser, and closet

  • A living room with a couch/queen hide-a-bed, TV and two foldable TV trays

  • A full kitchen with stove, oven, microwave, coffee pot, and refrigerator, plus cookware, dishes, and cutlery for four.

  • Small dining table and chairs

  • A bathroom with a combination shower and tub

East Campus Hotel-Style Rooms (6 units):

  • A single full bed

  • Seating, TV, and dresser

  • Mini-fridge

  • A bathroom with a wheelchair-accessible shower

Both facilities also include:

  • Free communal laundry machines

  • Public restrooms with handicap-accessible showers

  • Free Wi-Fi

  • Free coffee in the common rooms at each facility

  • For residents of the smaller East rooms, the common room also offers a microwave, kitchen sink, Keurig coffee maker and toaster

  • Fitness room (contains treadmill and step master)

  • Books. Past residents often donated their books, so all the bookshelves at each location are stocked with a variety of stories. Please help yourself!

What We Provide

  • Towels for 2 in the hotel-style rooms and 4 in the apartments

  • Linens for each bed. Hide-a-bed linens are stored in the room closets

  • Limited paper products. When you move into a room, there will be a soft-sided bin with four rolls of toilet paper, two small boxes of Kleenex, and some garbage liners. Additionally, the apartment kitchens will have paper towels and dish soap, and there will be hand soap in the bathroom. These items will not be replenished during your stay, and for long stays, we recommend that residents bring extra paper products with them.

  • Communal cleaning supplies. Each building's laundry room has a broom, dust pan, and vacuum.

What To Bring

  1. Laundry detergent and supplies.

  2. Food and drinks. There is no cafeteria or vending machine on site, so please bring whatever you want to eat during your stay

  3. Toiletries.

  4. Any medications.

  5. Medical supplies, such as walkers, wheelchairs, raised toilet seats, etc. We have some donated items available upon request. Please ask ahead of time if you need any of these items, to make sure one is available.

Gift of Life Housing Rules

  • No smoking, illegal substances, or open flames.

  • No alcohol

  • No pets (for inquiries regarding service animals, please contact the Housing Coordinator)

    If any of these rules are broken, you will be asked to leave. Depending on the severity, you may no longer be eligible for Gift of Life Housing in the future.