About the Foundation

The Alabama Child Caring Foundation (ACCF), a non-profit, publicly supported foundation, is the funding mechanism for the Alabama Child Caring Program (ACCP). Blue Cross provides all administrative support for the Foundation so that every dollar contributed goes directly to providing healthcare coverage for children. Blue Cross also matches every contribution dollar for dollar.

The first child was enrolled in March 1988. Since then, more than 65,000 children have received assistance from ACCP. Alabama is now the state that leads the nation for having the lowest percentage of medically uninsured children.

The mission of ACCF is to provide immediate medical care and ongoing medical coverage for needy uninsured children who are not eligible for Alabama’s governmental programs.

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give." — Winston Churchill