GRANTS FOR SPECIAL NEEDS:

www.4ahealingfoundation.org biomedical evals and treatment for children affected by autism, allergies, ADHD, and/or asthma. www.adaptivemall.com/kiddiepool1.html - the Kiddie Pool works as a fundraiser to help families raise money for special adaptive equipment. www.akidagain.org mission is to enrich the lives of children with life threatening illnesses and their families by providing year round, fun-filled group activities and destination events, fostering joy, laughter, normalcy and supportive networking opportunities. www.angelflight.com/locater.asp arranges free transportation for medical treatment. www.astrazeneca-us.com/help-affording-your-medicines - offering free medicines to people who earn $30,000 a year or less, or a family of four making up to $60,000 a year. www.aubreyrose.org/grants.htm will award financial help with a family's medical bills for their child who has a life-threatening condition. www.bb4k.org Building Blocks for Kids mission is to improve the quality of life for children with health-related needs that are not being met due to a lack of insurance, government funding, and/or family resources in the Cincinnati area. www.believeintomorrow.org/families.html Widely recognized as a world leader in pediatric Hospital Housing and Respite Housing for children with cancer. www.blindcitizens.org/assistive_tech.htm The Assistive Technology Fund (ATF) will provide funds to cover 50% of the retail price of adaptive devices or software. www.brightstepsforward.org provides funding for intensive pediatric therapy to financially disadvantaged children with neurological disorders. http://bryansdream.org provides hope and support to children with brain tumors. www.cancercare.org financial support with the cost that goes along with fighting cancer. http://challengedamerica.com/tell.asp?page=3 organization gives $500 maximum grant to individuals with disabilities http://www.challengedathletes.org/site/c.4nJHJQPqEiKUE/b.6449023/k.BD6D/Home.htm provides funding grants for equipment such as sports wheelchairs, handcycles, mono skis and sports prosthetics, and resources for training and competition expenses directly to physically challenged individuals. www.childrenscharityfund.org provides services and purchases medical equipment for handicapped and disabled children. Also provides educational grants to help children further their education. www.childrenwithspecialneeds.com - parents selling/giving away/buying items for their children with special needs. www.claytondabney.org The Clayton Dabney Foundation for Kids with Cancer provides needy families, with children in the last stages of terminal cancer, assistance in creating everlasting memories. www.conovercompany.com/grants/ the Conover Mobile Technology Grant is to promote the use of mobile technology and our apps to improve an individual's freedom and independence. www.dcrf.com/ordereze/default.aspx - Disabled Childrens Relief Fund provides assistance to obtain wheelchairs, orthopedic braces, walkers, lifts, hearing aids, eye glasses, medical equipment, physical therapy, and surgery. http://differentizgood.org/gift-a-voice/ helps those in need of a modern and compact speech generating device (SGD) to allow them to satisfy the basic human need of communication.

www.differentneedzfoundation.org is a web store that offers special needs families a one-stop shop to buy and sell their gently used medical and special needs equipment and adaptive toys. They also have a grant available to purchase such items as well. www.edenshope.org ease the financial burden endured by the families with children in treatment for Neuroblastoma. www.equippedkids.org a lending facility of adaptive equipment out of Maumee, Ohio. http://energyunited.com/energyunited_foundation.asp www.faithandfamilyfoundation.org offers scholarships for children with disabilities to participate in therapeutic riding, adaptive swimming and a variety of programs. www.faithshopefoundation.org - help with financial crisis while child is hospitalized www.fansacrossamerica.org/assist_a_family/ features families and their specific life needs (i.e. gas, groceries, utilities) and encourages the Fans Across America community as well as the family and friends of the designated family to make tax-deductible contributions to help fulfill their specific needs. https://applications.cerner.com/firsthand/ First Hand Foundation assists children with clinically relevant, health-related needs and no financial resources to cover these expenses. www.cityofsylvania.com/uploads/pdfs/Parks/Sartoma.pdf Fort Meigs Sertoma (Service To Mankind ) is an international organization that deals mainly with speech and hearing disabilities. For more information please contact Richard Kranz at (419)4732416 or by mail at PO Box 401 Sylvania, OH 43560. www.friendslikeus.org Friends Like Us is focused on helping children with cancer and their families with emotional, educational and resource support through various outlets. www.friendsofman.org grants for therapy, equipment, and other needs. Must have a sponsor such as an agency or social worker apply. www.giafoundation.com Gia Nicole Angel Foundation enhances the daily functioning of a child with special needs. www.gracieshope.org www.grahamsfoundation.org provide care packages that offer both practical and emotional support for the parents of micropreemies during their journey in the NICU. www.handstoangels.org/contact.html grants to support the identification and eventual prevention of rare, genetic disorders, and to provide financial assistance to families coping with the many complications of these disorders. http://www.hfgrotto.org/ The Grottoes of North America Humanitarian Foundation helps cover the costs of dental treatment, including hospital and anesthesia costs when needed, for children with Cerebral Palsy, Muscular Dystrophy (and related neuromuscular disorders), Organ Transplant recipients or those with Mental Retardation. www.thehikefund.org Hearing Impaired Kids Endowment Fund www.ironman.org The Matt Larson Foundation helps children undergoing treatment for a Brain or Central Nervous System (CNS) cancer. www.joniandfriends.org/resources.php Christian Fund for the Disabled www.kmbfoundation.org/ Kaitlin Marie Bell Foundation provides financial assistance to children with disabilities who are unable to afford equipment and/or services that they need; insurance companies consider many of these items a luxury. www.kickingitforkidsfoundation.org/index.html Kicking It For Kids Foundation helps families of sick and injured children in the Northwest Ohio Community to ease the financial burden of medical expenses.

http://kiddosclubhousefoundation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=110&Itemid=190 Georgia residents can receive up to $2,500 for payment of therapeutic services or equipment. http://kidscancercrusade.wordpress.com www.kyaskrusade.org/info/programs-and-services/financial-assistance-program/ at Kyas Krusade children under the age of 18 with a confirmed diagnosis of a life-long physical disability affecting the childs motor skills, for which physical/occupational therapy is part of the treatment regimen, receive financial assistance. www.lpaonline.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=85959&orgId=lpa Little People of America offers many types of grants and scholarships www.lukefund.org dedicated to improving the quality of life for children with pediatric cancer http://maggiewelby.org/Scholarships.html scholarships for children K-12 that show a financial need www.marksmoney.org provides financial assistance to persons with Down syndrome or other developmental disabilities to improve their quality of life by meeting their daily living, employment, medical, residential, or social needs. www.miracle-ear.com/childrenrequest.aspx The Miracle-Ear Childrens Foundations purpose is to provide no -cost hearing aids and hearing support services to children whose families have incomes that are significantly limited and who are unable to afford the high costs of quality hearing instruments. www.msfocus.org The Multiple Sclerosis Foundation is concerned with the physical, emotional, and social impact on people diagnosed with multiple sclerosis and their families. They have several different grants available. www.modestneeds.org www.themorganproject.org provides resources, gently used disability equipment and small grants. www.nationalchildrenscancersociety.com to improve the quality of life for children with cancer and their families worldwide. http://nc.agbell.org/NetCommunity/Page.aspx?pid=486 The Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing www.neweyesfortheneedy.org/us/apply.html New Eyes for the Needy accepts agency applications for eyeglass vouchers. www.noboundariesff.org The No Boundaries Muscular Dystrophy Family Foundation http://parkerspurpose.net/ monetary assistance up to $1,000 www.pparx.org Partnership for Prescription Assistance. www.prayerchild.org The Foundation seeks to provide assistance to living children that are eighteen years old and younger with physical and emotional challenges. www.queenofheartsfoundation.org target's children with Cerebral Palsy and Hydrocephalus. www.seedlings.org blind children in the US can receive two free Braille books per year www.smallstepsinspeech.org helps children with speech and/or language disorders take the steps needed to be better communicators www.snap4kids.org - Special Needs Assistance Program www.sotheworldmayhear.org HEAR NOW (800)648-4327

www.specialkidstherapy.org non-profit 5013 organization that helps with treatment and therapies not typically covered by insurance www.specialspaces.org is nonprofit 501 C (3) organization that creates dream bedrooms for children with life challenging illnesses www.sunshinefoundation.org grants wishes of disabled children http://tpahq.org/scholarshiptrust.html The Travelers Protective Association of America s Scholarship Trust for the Hearing Impaired. www.travisroyfoundation.org helps spinal cord injury survivors and funds research for a cure. www.uhccf.org United Healthcare Childrens Foundation; 800-328-5979, ext. 24459 Medical assistance grants up to $5,000 with a lifetime maximum of $7,500. Must have commercial healthcare denial to apply. http://usvariety.org/programs.html - Variety-Kids on the Go! helps kids gain mobility, confidence, and freedom to join in the life of their community. www.wheeltowalk.com helps children who experience difficulty obtaining funding from their insurance companies to obtain essential equipment or services that they needed to make their day to day lives just a little easier. www.zanesfoundation.org provides financial support to families of special needs children through funds designated for respite care, therapies, or other assistive equipment. www.abledata.com/abledata_docs/funding.htm www.atohio.org Assistive Technology of Ohio www.clinicaltrials.gov Listing of medical research programs being conducted www.disability.gov www.disabilityresources.org www.disaboom.com/scholarships?utm_source=disaboom&utm_medium=internal%2Blinking&utm_campaign=footer Disaboom is information and resources for people with disabilities www.ed.gov - large listing of grants available www.fdncenter.org Foundation Center RFP Bulletin: Disabled ($19.95 per month to use or free at main branch of Toledo Library) www.federalgrants.com/Agency/Administration-for-Children-and-Families.html http://freemoneyatemybrain.blogspot.com/search/label/disability http://fundsnetservices.com/searchresult.php?sbcat_id=5 www.Govbenefits.gov - search of government benefits and grants www.grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for grants offered by federal grant-making agency www.heath.gwu.edu - HEATH Resource Center http://icdri.org/Finance.htm International Center for Disability Resources www.kidspeech.com/images/stories/Grant_Sources_2011-04.pdf - Kaufman Childrens Center

www.lib.msu.edu/harris23/grants/3disable.htm - Listing of grant sites for individuals with disabilities www.ncddr.org/nidrrinfo/funding.html - Foundations and Corporate Grant Programs Related to Disability www.necfoundation.org/ - NEC Foundation of America www.nofreemoney.com www.rxassist.org www.rxhope.com www.rxoutreach.com www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/resources/autism-grants.htm www.themedicineprogram.com http://themorganproject.org/2011-New%20Resources-updated14Feb11.pdf www.unitedwaytoledo.org/fin/funding

GRANTS FOR AUTISM SPECIFICALLY:

www.4ahealingfoundation.org - biomedical www.aboutprojectIam.com is strictly a fundraising foundation whose main function is to distribute money to families in the Toledo area so they can have their children diagnosed, treated, and moving forward with living with Autism. www.act-today.org/grants2.html This organization does give grants to families, but the details are unclear from their website. It seems to be the case that they fund families with multiple autistic children first; then those with greater financial need. www.aheadwithautism.com www.autismescapes.org primary purpose is to arrange air travel on private jets for families in need of medical care for their children. www.autismassistance.blogspot.com/ The creators of this blog list dozens of small local granting agencies which give to families and organizations. www.autismcares.org This collaborative agency offers funding to families across the United States who are living with autism and also are coping with a major crisis such as flood or fire. "AutismCares assists families who meet the eligibility criteria to cover costs associated with housing, automobile repair, insurance premiums, medical care, prescriptions, daycare, funeral expenses, and other items on a caseby-case basis. www.autismfamilyresources.org/needassistance2.html One-time $500 grants are awarded to families in financial need. All funds awarded are paid directly to the vendor or service provider to pay for therapy equipment, safety equipment or services. www.autismhelpforyou.org www.autismrelieffoundation.com 3 different grants offered. www.bloomingwithautism.com

www.itaalk.org (Interactive Technology Assisting Autistic Little Kids) provides interactive technology to children (0-22) with an Autism Spectrum Disorder, and educational training on interactive technology to families, educators, and service providers of children with special needs. www.josephsnyderautismfund.org www.lend4health.blogspot.com/ This is a unique program that provides interest free microloans (in the amount of a few hundred dollars) to families from other families. Families interested in receiving a loan post on the blog, and may receive contributions that must be paid back over time. www.lilmackids.org/lil-mac-grant-application.html www.maggieshope.org always looking for ways to directly help families in need that are affected by autism www.nationalautismassociation.org/familyfirst.php grants for marriage counseling. www.nationalautismassociation.org/helpinghand.php The Helping Hand Program provides families with financial assistance in getting necessary biomedical treatments, supplements and therapy services for their autistic child. Do not apply for this grant if you are seeking funds for respite care, fencing, trampolines, swingsets, trips to Disney World, etc. www.talkaboutcuringautism.org/fic/family-scholarship-program.html www.todayshopeautism.org www.vianow.org - biomedical, therapies, conferences

Search engines for Autism

www.autism-pdd.net/financial-resources.html www.autismtown.org www.bbbautism.com