Funding and Grant Opportunities

Cubs Care

Cubs Care focuses its giving in the city of Chicago and makes monetary grants to organizations that aid children who have special needs, victims of domestic violence and youth sports programs. Most of these grants are designated for specific programs. Cubs Care also focuses on a wide variety of charitable and social service agencies located in the immediate neighborhood of Wrigley Field. This includes Lake View, Uptown and Lincoln Park.

 

Funding for 2012 Overnight Winter Adventure Camps for Teens with Disabilities in Military Families

Northeast Passage is offering two Winter Adventure Camps in January 2012 for teens with disabilities (both developmental/cognitive and physical) who have a parent serving in the military. We received a grant for these camps in collaboration with the University of New Hampshire’s Cooperative Extension 4-H Youth Development Programs.

 

2012 World Sport Chicago Scholarship Program

The 2012 World Sport Chicago Scholarship Program offers 50 students ACT tutoring, pre-college mentoring and the opportunity to receive one of 10 renewable college scholarships worth up to $5,000 annually.

 

Safe Routes to School Mini-Grants

The National Center for Safe Routes to School (SRTS) is accepting applications for 25 mini-grants of $1,000 each. These SRTS mini-grants support programs to enable and encourage children of all ages and abilities to safely walk and bicycle to school. The funded activities should occur between January 1, 2012, and the end of the spring 2012 semester. Applications are due on October 19, 2011, so visit the online mini-grant information and application page today.

 

GTECH After School Advantage

This program provides non-profit agencies with state-of-the art, internet-ready computer centers. For each program, we donate an average of $15,000 in computers, online technology, software, and volunteer hours. Selected sites must have an existing after-school program in need of a computer lab; serve disadvantaged youth aged 5-15, of diverse backgrounds; have staffing and monetary support systems in place to sustain the lab. Proposals are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.

 

Think College!  Institute for Community Inclusion

The emphasis of this competition is to increase opportunities for postsecondary education for students with Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (IDD) within the UCEDD network, in partnership with their respective DD Councils and other key state partners, such as Boards of Higher Education, institutions of higher education, self-advocacy groups, and youth leadership programs.

 

Subcontract-Supported Research Opportunity - Autism Treatment Network

The Autism Treatment Network (ATN), an established program of Autism Speaks (AS), is a national network of seventeen leading hospitals and medical centers dedicated to improving the health and well-being of individuals with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) and other developmental disabilities. For this RFA, the ATN has particular interest in supporting junior investigators in developing their research efforts to improve the medical care of children with autism.

 

2011-2012 New York City Community Impact Grant

These grants will provide seed money for projects of community-based organizations located in and serving the New York City area. Awarded projects will help further the goal of our organization by specifically focusing on improving the cardiovascular health of youth. Grant proposals can be focused on any of the following topics with a clear justification of how they improve the cardiovascular health of youth in our communities: health assessments, nutrition/eating habits, physical activity, systems change in schools, and health equity.

 

World Sport Chicago Scholarship

World Sport Chicago (WSC), the legacy organization of Chicago 2016’s Olympic and Paralympic Bid, created the World Sport Chicago Scholarship Program to reward Chicago high school student-athletes for their demonstrated commitment to athletics, academics and the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect.  Up to 50 Chicago high school juniors will receive Kaplan ACT tutoring and a year-long Chicago Scholars mentoring program, which guides students through the college application process.

 

Flutie Grants - Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation

The goal of the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism is to improve the quality of life for people and families affected by autism spectrum disorder. The foundation assists financially disadvantaged families who need assistance in caring for their children with autism spectrum disorder through nonprofit autism organizations or other organizations completing autism-specific projects. It also funds education and advocacy for individuals with autism and supports therapeutic, recreational and social skills programs. Families and individuals are not eligible to apply.

 

Access for Athletes - Challenged Athletes Foundation

The grants provide resources for adaptive sports equipment, sports prosthetics, training, and competition grants so that those with physical challenges (disabilities) can once again, or for the first time, participate in sports. The primary goal is to increase physical activity levels for individuals and ultimately increase independence, self-esteem, and sense of accomplishment. Eligibility requirements include disabilities listed within the International Paralympic Committee classifications.

 

KaBOOM! and Dr. Pepper Snapple Group Invite Grant Applications for Let's Play Playground Construction Grants

KaBOOM! and funding partner Dr. Pepper Snapple Group are offering Let's Play Playground Construction Grants of $15,000 to qualifying organizations using the KaBOOM! community-build model. The applicant must be a U.S.-based nonprofit organization or governmental subdivision, and must own the land on which the playground will be built or possess a long-term lease and obtain permission from the land owner.

 

Tarjan Center at UCLA, Mitsubishi Electric, and Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship

The Tarjan Center at the University of California Los Angeles, a University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities, has partnered with the Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation and Students for the Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE) to support inclusive, student-run businesses. The Tarjan Center will provide small grants to help teachers include students with and without disabilities in socially responsible student-run businesses.

 

Gates Foundation Grant Opportunities - New Grand Challenges Explorations Topics

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is now accepting grant proposals for Round 8 of Grand Challenges Explorations, an initiative to encourage innovative and unconventional global health and development solutions. Applicants can be at any experience level; in any discipline; and from any organization, including colleges and universities, government laboratories, research institutions, non-profit organizations and for profit companies.

 

Walmart State Giving Program

Through this program, the Wal-Mart Foundation will award grants at the state and regional level to support unmet needs that are not directly addressed by any of their current programs. The Foundation has adopted the following areas of focus: Education, Job Skills Training, Environmental Sustainability and Health.

 

U.S. Department of Labor Seeking to Employ People with Disabilities

The United States Department of Labor's Employment and Training Administration (ETA) is filling positions within the agency via Schedule A. Schedule A hiring authority enables a federal agency to hire people with certain kinds of disabilities including intellectual disabilities without going through cumbersome hiring procedures. DOL's ETA is looking for a wide variety of professions at all levels. Some jobs are in the DC area, some are in regions.

 

National Alliance for Accessible Golf Offers Funding for Programs for Individuals With Disabilities

With funding from the United States Golf Association, the National Alliance for Accessible Golf will, for the second year, administer the grant application process for organizations providing golf programs for individuals with disabilities. The alliance is particularly interested in applications that demonstrate a focus on the inclusion of people with disabilities in programs that involve those without disabilities, with the ultimate goal of enhancing their inclusion into the fabric of their community.

 

Ashoka's Changemakers and Boehringer Ingelheim Global Health Solutions Competition

Ashoka’s Changemakers and Boehringer Ingelheim are seeking innovative solutions worldwide that sustainably increase individual, family, and community well-being.  The competition welcomes solutions and collaborations along the entire health continuum, from prevention and lifestyle to detection and treatment.

 

Bikes Belong Special Grant Round for Community Collaborations to Promote Bicycling

Bikes Belong, which provides grants to organizations and agencies within the United States that are "committed to putting more people on bicycles more often," is accepting applications for Community Partnership Grants, which are designed to foster and support partnerships between city or county governments, nonprofit organizations, and local businesses working to improve the environment for bicycling.

 

Verizon Foundation Grant

Verizon Foundation invests in projects that provide technology to help underserved populations and people with disabilities access information on critical health issues. They also support innovative technology that helps healthcare providers increase their efficiency, effectiveness and reach.

 

Christopher Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants

Quality of Life grants, conceived by the late Dana Reeve, are awarded to programs or projects that improve the daily lives of people with paralysis, with some emphasis on but not limited to paralysis caused by spinal caused by spinal cord injuries. She started the Quality of Life grants program to recognize and support organizations that recognize and support organizations that help individuals, their families and caregivers in ways that more immediately give them increased independence, day-to-day happiness, and improved access.

 

Multiple Sclerosis Foundation - MS Brighter Tomorrow Grants

MS Brighter Tomorrow Grants to provide individuals with MS with goods or services (valued at up to $1,000) designed to improve their quality of life by enhancing their safety, self-sufficiency, comfort, and/or well-being. Recipients of the Multiple Sclerosis Foundation's Brighter Tomorrow grant have received car repairs, ramps, wheelchairs, walkers, eyeglasses, computers, appliances, televisions, furniture, therapeutic equipment, hobby supplies, retreats, and various home modifications.

 

Dorothea Haus Ross Foundation

The Ross Foundation provides direct aid and assistance to vulnerable children, including children with disabilities, children who are ill, orphaned, injured, disfigured, abused or have limited access to education.
 

  • The Foundation is looking for small grassroots projects that can be fully funded or nearly fully funded with the small grants that they make.
  • The Ross Foundation provides financial assistance to organizations that are qualified under the laws of the United States as a charitable organization for projects that directly benefit vulnerable children.

 

MGN Family Foundation

The MGN Family Foundation goals are to make grants in the fields of education, health care, medical research, and children's programs, and to help those in the U.S. Military, including their families. It is the intent of the Foundation to award grants based on achievement, excellence, influence, impactful work, or leadership in a specific field of charitable endeavor. All applicants must have the financial ability to sustain the funded program or project on a continuing basis.

 

Women’s Sports Foundation - Travel & Training Fund. GoGirlGo!

The Foundation provides girls access to sport and physical activity despite background or financial ability. Grants are awarded to girl-serving organizations who strive to provide diverse, underserved populations of girls ages 8 to 18 with a way to get involved in sport and physical activity. Teams must lead their own team project that will get girls in their communities physically active and tell us about the project. A total of $50,000 in grants will be awarded in recognition of the outstanding efforts of 20 teams throughout the country.

 

National Inclusion Project - Let's ALL Play Program

Let’s ALL Play is the National Inclusion Project’s program model for recreational programs that are currently serving children with disabilities and wish to do it better or programs seeking to open doors currently shut to children with disabilities in their community. Let’s ALL Play includes successful modifications, inclusive games, and other information to successfully run a program of inclusion. To be eligible for a partnership, your program must be a non-profit or public organization. Submit your inquiry between March and July; you should receive a response within 2 business days of submission either inviting you to submit a full proposal or informing you that the inquiry does not fit within our scope of funding. Funding Limit: $10,000/yr.

 

TCDD Funding Available for Health and Fitness Projects

This announces the intention of TCDD to award funds for up to two projects that will demonstrate how appropriate supports may help people with developmental disabilities to participate in exercise and nutrition programs to help achieve their health and fitness goals. Up to $250,000 per year for up to five years for each of two projects is expected to be available for projects funded under this Announcement.

 

Humana Foundation Community Grants

The Humana Foundation supports charitable activities that promote healthy lives and communities, such as:

1.Childhood health and education
2.Health literacy
3.Active lifestyles
They consider proposals from nonprofit organizations where Humana has a meaningful presence.

 

National Science Foundation- General & Age-Related Disabilities Engineering (GARDE)

The GARDE program supports research that will lead to the development of new technologies, devices, or software for persons with disabilities. Research may be supported that is directed to the characterization, restoration, and/or substitution of human functional ability or cognition, or to the interaction of persons with disabilities and their environment.

 

RERC on Wireless Technologies

The purpose of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities, including international activities; to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities.

 

RERC on Low Vision and Blindness

The purpose of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities, including international activities; to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities.

 

Living Among Individuals with Disabilities

The purpose of the Disability and Rehabilitation Research Projects and Centers Program is to plan and conduct research, demonstration projects, training, and related activities, to develop methods, procedures, and rehabilitation technology that maximize the full inclusion and integration into society, employment, independent living, family support, and economic and social self-sufficiency of individuals with disabilities.

 

Promoting Health Policy and Disease Prevention

The purpose of the program is to create, evaluate, test, and otherwise inform health policy development that will aid CDC in creating and advancing health policies that positively affect health at the population level. The objectives of this cooperative agreement support and align with Healthy People 2020 as it is expected to serve multiple program areas as well as support cross-cutting initiatives.

 

Projects of National Significance: Partnerships in Employment Systems Change

Funds are available for projects developed by consortia to enhance collaboration across existing State systems, including programs administered by State Developmental Disabilities agencies, State Vocational Rehabilitation agencies, State Educational agencies and other entities to increase competitive employment outcomes for youth and young adults with DD including ID.  Funding is intended to support a 60-month project with five 12-month budget periods.

 

Healthy People 2020 Community Innovation Awards

On June 20, 2011, ODPHP through its contractor John Snow, Inc., released a Request for Proposals for the Healthy People 2020 Community Innovations Project. Through this competitive process, community based organizations (CBOs) will be eligible for awards of $5,000 to $10,000 to address one or more HP2020 topic areas, with special emphasis on Environmental Justice, Health Equity, or Healthy Behaviors Across All Life Stages. Funding may only be used to support activities above and beyond general operations. ODPHP anticipates making 85 to 170 awards. Proposals are due on August 5, 2011 with awards to be announced in early November. The project period will run from December 1, 2011 to May 31, 2012.

 

The Easter Foundation

Areas of interest include:

1. E - Education
2. A - Arts
3. S - Sustainability
4. T - Technology
5. E - Environment
6. R - Rights

 

Innovating Worthy Projects Foundation


The Foundation was founded to provide financial grants for structuring, developing, or modifying Programs for Children with Special Needs. The Foundation makes grants to organizations dedicated to serving developing innovative programs, disseminating ideas, or providing direct care or services for children with special needs, acute illnesses or chronic disabilities.

 

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of the New York Tri-State Area - Programs for Children

The Charities is working to better the lives of children and their families in our community, by creating and supporting programs that directly improve the health and well-being of children in the areas of health, education, the arts, and civic and social services. RMHC is mostly interested in organizations that have a broad base of funding, a consistent management capacity to effectively execute the project, and a clear and concise plan to evaluate a project with measurable results. RMHC is also interested in specific programs that directly benefits and improves the well-being of children (ages 0 to 18 years), addresses a significant need or opportunity for a specific group of children, has a long term impact in term of replication and reach, and produces measurable results.

Partnership for Patients announces Federal contracting opportunities

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that up to $500 million in Partnership for Patients funding will be available to help hospitals, health care provider organizations and others improve care and stop millions of preventable injuries and complications related to health care acquired conditions and unnecessary readmissions. This funding, made available by the Affordable Care Act, will be awarded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Center through a solicitation and other procurements for federal contracts announced today.
 

 

New Jersey Health Initiatives-Community Agency Capacity Enhancement

This special solicitation by the New Jersey Health Initiatives program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will strengthen the core organizational capacity of community-based organizations providing social, health and human direct services to historically disadvantaged populations in New Jersey. This includes, but is not limited to, organizations serving ethnic and racial minorities from historically disadvantaged groups or other persons in low-resourced communities. Project funds will support the development and implementation of a strategy to improve each organization’s ability to manage, evaluate, and to help sustain programs aimed at serving their clients.

 

The North Face Explore Fund
 

The Explore Fund is a grant-giving program committed to supporting nonprofit, community organizations that break down the barriers to getting youth outdoors. The Explore Fund will support organizations that encourage youth outdoor participation, focus on sustainability initiatives, or help to create a connection to nature that will empower the future leaders of tomorrow.

 

Murad Family Foundation

The Murad Family Foundation is currently accepting applications for grants to support work in areas of health, education, and human services. Domestic organizations that support the Foundation's mission of helping people improve quality of life and health are invited to apply.

 

Bikes Belong Coalition

Bikes Belong (BB) welcomes grant applications from organizations and agencies within the U.S. that are committed to putting more people on bicycles more often. The program funds projects in three categories: Facility, Education, Capacity Building. For the education and facility categories, BB will accept applications from non-profit organizations; and from public agencies and departments at the national, state, regional, and local level.

 

Healthy Kids, Healthy Families

Health Care Service Corporation, a customer-owned health insurer, has announced the launch of a three-year initiative called "Healthy Kids, Healthy Families" to improve the health of children in the four states where the company operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans (Illinois, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas).

 

Multiple Sclerosis Foundation
 

  • Multiple Sclerosis Foundation offers grants for the following programs: Brighter Tomorrow Grants, Homecare Grants, Computer Grants. To qualify, a person must be 18 years of age or older and diagnosed with MS or the parent of a minor child diagnosed with MS, and be a permanent U.S. resident.  They must not have any other means of fulfilling the need they express.

 

Funding available through Community Transformation Grants
 

  • The availability of over $100 million in funding for up to 75 Community Transformation Grants was announced at Health and Human Services. Created by the Affordable Care Act, these grants are aimed at  helping communities implement projects proven to reduce chronic disease, violence and injury, and improve mental health and equity.

 

The 2011 Joshua O'Neill and Zeshan Tabani Enrichment Fund
 

  • The Joshua O'Neill and Zeshan Tabani Enrichment Fund offers financial assistance to young adults (18+) with Down syndrome who wish to continue to enrich their lives by enrolling in postsecondary programs or taking enrichment classes that will help them to enrich life through employment, independent living skills, life skills or another way.

 

CVS Caremark Community Grants Program

  • CVS Caremark Community Grants Program Offers Support for Organizations Serving Children With Disabilities and the

     Uninsured.

Saucony - Obesity Prevention grants
 

  • The Saucony Run for Good Program has been created to encourage active and healthy lifestyles in children. Grants are awarded up to $10,000 to encourage active and healthy lifestyles in children, fight obesity, and reverse the trend of shortening life spans.

 

Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation - Full Inclusion Funding

  • Through its National Grant program, Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (MEAF) is providing funding to programs that promote full inclusion of young people with disabilities in society, enabling young people with disabilities to have full access to educational, vocational and recreational opportunities and to

    participate alongside their peers. MEAF's funding priority is inclusion.

 

Department of Justice $300,000 Mentoring Youth with Disabilities Initiative grant - Deadline May 16

  • The Department of Justice, Office of Justice is accepting applications for its Mentoring Youth with Disabilities Initiative.   Grants are awarded to nonprofit and public agencies to integrate best practices and proven principles into mentoring service models, including efforts to recruit, train, and support mentors in their efforts to encourage individual youth to maximize personal strengths and to develop compensatory skills in specific areas of disability.

Grant Opportunities: Healthy Living Promotion for People with Disabilities

  • People with disabilities face unique challenges to maintaining a healthy weight, including physical limitations, inaccessible fitness activities and limited healthy eating choices and exercise options. The Health and Disability Project at the National Association of County and City Health Officials invites local health departments, partnered with local stakeholder organizations, to apply for two new grant opportunities.

Mobilizing Action Toward Community Health: Community Grants Program

  • A new Community Grants program will help spark action in communities to address the many factors that influence health. As the County Health Rankings illustrate, social and economic factors such as education and employment can affect health directly and indirectly, and those negative effects may accumulate over individuals' lifetimes and continue unbroken through generations. The first round of the Community Grants program is open to communities that are ready to take action to address the social and economic factors that affect health-factors which have a significant impact on health outcomes, yet are often ignored in community health improvement activities.

 

 

Mockingbird Foundation: Music education for children

  • The Foundation programmatic focus is music education for children. The Foundation is particularly interested in projects that encourage and foster creative expression in any musical form (including composition, instrumentation, vocalization, or improvisation), but also recognizes broader and more basic needs within conventional instruction.

 

KaBOOM! Let's Play Grants

  • In an effort to combat the Play Deficit among children, national non-profit KaBOOM! and Dr Pepper Snapple group will award 103 grants totaling $2.1 million during the next three years as part of the Playful City USA program. The Playful City USA grants are part of Let's Play - a community partnership led by Dr Pepper Snapple Group to get kids active nationwide.

 

 

Funding Opportunity through American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance

  • The purpose of the program is to enable organizations that have held a Jump Rope for Heart or Hoops for Heart event in the previous year to purchase equipment to improve their physical education opportunities for children, receive the National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) quality Physical Education (PE) package, continue membership with AAHPERD, and attend the AAHPERD National Convention and Exposition.

The 2010 Joshua O'Neill and Zeshan Tabani Enrichment Fund

  • The Joshua O'Neill and Zeshan Tabani Enrichment Fund offers financial assistance to young adults (18+) with Down syndrome who wish to continue to enrich their lives by enrolling in postsecondary programs or taking enrichment classes that will help them to enrich life through employment, independent living skills, life skills or another way.

 

Department of Health and Human Services Child Care Research Grants

  • Funds are available for Child Care Research Partnership grants to support research that addresses issues of significance related to Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF).

 

 

Six Flags Friends Scholarships

  • Scholarships are given to young leaders who are taking action to make their community (local and/or globally) a better place.

 

Request for Applications Announced: Fostering the Progress of the Autism Treatment Network

  • This request solicits applications for Autism Treatment Network Centers of Clinical Excellence (CCE). The network consists of hospitals and academic medical centers with extensive experience in the diagnosis, assessment, and medical treatment of children and adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

 

Announcing the 2010 VSA arts Playwright Discovery Call for Scripts

  • Playwright Discovery Program invites middle and high school students to take a closer look at the world around them, examine how disability affects their lives and the lives of others, and express their views through the art of playwriting. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply.


Walmart Foundation Grants

  • The Wal-Mart Foundation supports programs and initiatives in four main areas of focus: Education, Workforce Development / Economic Opportunity, Health and Wellness, and Environmental Sustainability .

 

Christopher Reeve Foundation Quality of Life Grants

  • Grants are given to programs or projects that improve the daily lives of people living with paralysis, particularly spinal cord injuries. Funding is awarded twice yearly to programs that provide assistance through access, advocacy, education, recreation, and technology, among others.

 

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Proposals - Communities Creating Healthy Environments

  • Communities Creating Healthy Environments is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that aims to prevent childhood obesity by increasing access to healthy foods and safe places to play in communities of color.

 

2010 CVS Caremark Community Grants

  • The CVS Caremark Community Grants program awards funds to nonprofit organizations for programs targeting children with disabilities, programs focusing on health and rehabilitation services, public schools promoting a greater level of inclusion in student activities and extracurricular programs, and initiatives that give greater access to physical movement and play.

 

Active Living Research Grants - Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)

  • Active Living Research is a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). The program supports research to inform policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity among children and adolescents, decreasing their sedentary behaviors and preventing obesity.

 

Talbots Charitable Foundation

  • Guided by a belief in a woman's ability to make a difference, The Talbots Charitable Foundation is committed to helping women learn, pursue their dreams and enjoy healthier, fuller lives. To this end, the Foundation provides financial assistance to non-profit organizations supporting the education, health and cultural enrichment of women.