Reeve Foundation: Quality of Life Grants Program

Posted by on July 23, 2012

Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Invite Applications for Quality of Life Grants Program
Deadline: September 4, 2012

Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Quality of Life grants are awarded twice yearly to nonprofit agencies and organizations serving individuals with paralysis and related mobility impairments and their families. The foundation is inviting applications for the second grant cycle of 2012.

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

Funding is awarded to nonprofit organizations that provide critical life-enhancing and life-changing programs and services that improve physical and emotional health. Funded projects offer a diversity of services and approaches – including improving access, providing education and job training, and sponsoring organized sporting opportunities for individuals living with paralysis and their communities.

The Reeve Foundation gives special consideration to organizations that serve returning wounded military and their families, and to those that provide targeted services to diverse cultural communities.

Quality of Life grants are most often awarded to nonprofit organizations that have IRS 501(c)(3) status, but also may be awarded to community parks, schools, veterans hospitals, tribal entities, etc. Most grants are awarded within the United States, although the foundation does award a small number of grants to nonprofit organizations based outside the U.S.

The maximum funding amount is $25,000.

For complete program information and application procedures, visit the Reeve Foundation Web site.

http://www.christopherreeve.org/site/pp.aspx?c=ddJFKRNoFiG&b=4425935