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5.1. Funding & Grants For Children With Disabilities
There are a number of organizations that may provide funding for children with disabilities. They cover a wide array of funding purposes such as therapy, equipment, accessibility, medications, recreational opportunities, and many other items and services. These organizations have certain grant/funding criteria so please be sure to check their websites (or phone them) for funding details.
Challenged America
Challenged America offers funding to disadvantaged, physically or developmentally challenged children (or their parents). You can submit requests for medical attention, rehabilitative therapy, and/or assistive devices they would otherwise be unable to obtain. The benefits to the children go far beyond the physical. Assistance from Challenged America can improve their quality of life, help them gain confidence and self-esteem, and ease their reentry into the community.
http://challengedamerica.com/
(818) 907-6966
Disabled Children's Fund
Disabled Children's Fund (DCF) is a humanitarian organization committed to serving the indigent and oppressed children and their families worldwide. Disabled Children's Fund provides about two million dollars worth of humanitarian services annually at no charge for children and adults and provides braces, wheelchairs, crutches, walkers, and rehabilitative services globally.
https://achildthrives.org
240-929-4281
Oracle Health Foundation
Oracle Health Foundation (formerly the First Hand Foundation) is a public 501(c)(3) organization that provides funding for individual children both domestically and globally for clinical, equipment, medical transportation, and vehicle modification needs.
https://www.oraclehealthfoundation.org
(816) 201-1569
Giving Angels Foundation
The mission of the Foundation is to assist special needs children with a physical disability or illness aged 21 or younger throughout the United States. The Foundation awards grants to lower income families to enhance the everyday life of the child. Funds are awarded on a case by case basis. Families who wish to receive assistance must complete an application and demonstrate financial need. Applications are accepted throughout the year. Grants are only to be awarded once per child (for clarification, families who have multiple children who qualify are eligible to be awarded once per child).
http://www.givingangelsfoundation.org/
267-332-1320
Gracie's Hope Inc.
A non-profit organization committed to help improve the lives of children with special needs. They help provide funding for therapies such as, but not limited to, PT, OT, Speech, Chelation, and Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. They also help provide needed equipment and assist families in finding respite care, and other needed services.
http://hboinfo.com/hhi/gracies-hope/
(704)-875-7189
The Kiddie Pool
The Kiddie Pool program is an online fundraiser. Your family joins the program and a custom webpage is created for your child with special needs. Included on the webpage is a photograph of your child, your child's story, products desired for your child and fun facts about your child. This webpage is designed to be shared with friends and family through an email campaign. Once friends and family members visit your child's webpage, they can read about your child and learn about the products he/she needs. They can then make a donation for your child that will be put into an account on Adaptivemall.com. You will receive an email each time someone has donated to your child's fund so that you can keep track of where you are with your goal. Once your child has received enough donations, you can redeem them for the products desired.
http://www.adaptivemall.com/kiddiepool1.html
800.371.2778
Kiddos' Clubhouse Foundation
Kiddos' Clubhouse Foundation provides therapy scholarships to help families pay for critical therapies.
http://kiddosclubhousefoundation.org/
678-527-3224
Maggie Welby Foundation
Offers grants for children and families that have a financial need for a particular purpose. Grants may extend to children and families in need of help with bills, athletic opportunities, medical needs, or an opportunity that a child would not otherwise have. All grants are awarded to the family, but are paid directly to the specific purpose for which the grant was applied.
http://maggiewelby.org/
314-330-6947
Parker's Purpose Foundation Assistance
Parker's Purpose Foundation Assistance offers funding/grants to any family who has a minor (18 and under) with a life altering illness or disability that is in an immediate financial crisis due to unforeseen medical expenses. Families who live in Ohio will be first priority in providing assistance but will extend outside the state if deemed necessary.
http://parkerspurpose.net/index.php?page=application-for-assistance
(419) 334-7275
Prayer Child Foundation
The Foundation seeks to provide assistance to living children that are eighteen years old and younger with physical and emotional challenges. The Foundation provides support to national children's charities, individuals and organizations located within supporters' local communities.
http://www.prayerchild.org/
480-634-6086
Sunshine Foundation
Sunshine Foundation answers the dreams of chronically ill, seriously ill, physically challenged and abused children, ages three to eighteen, whose families cannot fulfill their requests due to the financial strain that child's illness may cause.
http://www.sunshinefoundation.org/
(215) 396 4770
UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation
UnitedHealthcare Children's Foundation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity dedicated to facilitating access to medical-related services that have the potential to significantly enhance either the clinical condition or the quality of life of the child and that are not fully covered by the available commercial health benefit plan. This "support" is in the form of a medical grant to be used for medical services not covered or not completely covered by commercial health benefit plans.
http://www.uhccf.org/
855-698-4223
Variety the Children's Charity
Variety's Freedom Program delivers vital life-changing equipment and services for mobility, independence and social inclusion to individual children and children's organizations. Together through the Freedom program, we change children's lives by granting items and services that provide independence, mobility and freedom. Grants under the Freedom program are made to individual children and children's organizations.
http://usvariety.org/
323 954 0820
Wheel to Walk Foundation
A non-profit organization that helps children and young adults (20 years and younger) with disabilities obtain medical equipment or services that is not provided by their insurance companies. We purchase items such as therapy tricycles, adaptive strollers, shower chairs, pumper cars, zip zac chairs, selective communication devices, gait trainers, speech therapy and wheelchairs, to name a few. Our organization strongly believes that no child or young adult with special needs go without items that could improve the quality of his or her daily life. If you live in Oregon, Washington, Idaho or California and need assistance with anything from leg braces, bath chairs, gait trainers to therapy tricycles and wheelchairs, please contact us.
http://www.wheeltowalk.com/
(503) 257-1401
Wheelchairs 4 Kids
Although our name may be Wheelchairs 4 Kids, our plan involves so much more than providing wheelchairs for America's disabled children. Our goal is to give every child with mobility challenges the best opportunity to live life at its' fullest. Wheelchairs 4 Kids will help them by providing not only well fitted, well equipped wheelchairs, but also assist with ramps, wheelchair lifts, home modifications and hopefully in the future, playgrounds.
http://wheelchairs4kids.org/
727-946-0963