Counted Voices Foundation
No one facing cancer should go unheard.
Counted Voices Foundation stands with patients and families through cancer care. We provide compassionate support, advance research, and advocate for a system that listens to every person it treats.
Our story
Born from a simple conviction: every voice counts.
Counted Voices Foundation began when a group of patients, caregivers, and clinicians saw the same gap again and again. The science of cancer care was advancing quickly, yet the people living through it often felt unseen between appointments.
We exist to close that gap. We stand with families navigating treatment, advance research that treats the whole person, and press for a system where being counted is not a privilege but the standard of care.
We start with the person
Care decisions are easier to face when someone understands the whole of your life, not only your diagnosis.
We follow the evidence
Every program we back is chosen for the difference it makes to patients, and measured honestly.
We answer to the community
Patients and caregivers help decide where our support goes, because they know where it is needed.
What we do
Four ways we help people be counted.
Patient & family support
Practical help through treatment: care navigation, travel and lodging support, and someone to turn to on the hard days.
Research
Championing studies that improve quality of life and give patients a stronger voice in their own care.
Advocacy
Working with clinicians and policymakers so that patient experience shapes how cancer care is delivered.
Education
Clear, trustworthy resources that help patients and caregivers understand their options and be heard.
Our promise
Support that adds up to being heard.
Patients & families
Walked alongside through every stage of cancer care.
Caregivers & guardians
Heard and supported, never treated as an afterthought.
Every story
Held in a safe space, and shared only in the way you choose.
Research & advocacy
For care that listens to the whole person, not just the chart.