With a network nationwide, we’re proud to serve approximately 1.5 million people with disabilities and their families. From therapy and early intervention services, to camps and employment placement, we help children and adults with disabilities, caregivers, veterans and seniors be at their best as they live, learn, work and play.
For more than a century, Kiwanis has created opportunities for children to be curious, safe and healthy regardless of the community in which they live. When you give a child the chance to learn, experience, dream, grow, succeed and thrive, great things can happen.
SNAP works with families and children to determine the equipment, resources, or services that would best promote child and family independence and quality of life.
SNAP is interested in finding ways to supply homes with equipment that increases a child's ability to gain mobility, communicate, and improve education.
SNAP will be a mentor to families by identifying financial assistance, grants, and pro grams designed to meet your circumstances.
Financial Assistance to persons with Down syndrome. Mark’s Money is a non-profit organization started by the Coonrod family in August 2006 to provide financial assistance to people with Down syndrome to help improve their quality of life. Financial assistance will be awarded to help meet their daily living, educational, employment, medical, residential or social needs.
Friends of Man helps people of all ages with a large variety of needs:
- Mobility Equipment: (prostheses, wheelchairs, van lifts, and modifications, ramps, home modifications)
- Medical Equipment and Procedures
- Hearing Aids, Dentures, Glasses
- Basic Needs: Clothing for Children, Food
- Short-term Daycare, Prescriptions, Cobra/Health Insurance
- And More!!
Autism Speaks is dedicated to promoting solutions, across the spectrum and throughout the lifespan, for the needs of individuals with autism and their families through advocacy and support; increasing understanding and acceptance of autism spectrum disorder; and advancing research into causes and better interventions for autism spectrum disorder and related conditions.
Children’s Wish Foundation will fulfill the favorite wish for any child having a limited life expectancy with medical-science as we know it today. Each wish will be complete while the child is healthy enough to fully enjoy it. The immediate family is included in the wish fulfillment so that the child and family can share in the experience and create happy memories together.
The Arya Foundation serves to provide financial aid for the purchase of medical supplies and equipment for children with the medical condition.
The Arya Foundation believes that the medical supplies and adaptive equipment are lifeline for children with special needs and necessary to support their health and learning.
Therapy Equipment Available Lexi's Closet provides an opportunity for a "test drive" of a special piece of equipment before making a commitment to purchase it.
Lexi's Closet provides a variety of therapy equipment for children with special needs. When families seek equipment for their child with special needs, they are confused by options, brands, styles of apparatus and equipment available. Our closet gives families a chance to try out what is needed before an expensive, non-refundable purchase is made.
In addition to providing guidance, resources and gently used disability equipment free of charge to these families, the organization has recently created a new therapeutic/recreational option for families in Brevard and surrounding counties that focuses directly on the sensory functions of their child with special health care needs – designed just for children with physical disabilities and/or sensory processing disorders.
Small Steps in Speech is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organization which provides grants on behalf of children with speech and language disorders for therapies, treatments, communicative devices, and other services aimed at improving their communication skills.
A grant from Small Steps in Speech provides financial support to families seeking speech and language services for their children, either not covered or not fully covered by their health care plan.
Fund It Forward is a volunteer run non-profit organization which believes that parents of children with special needs are strong, willing and able to endure daily struggles.
Because of the constant battles to provide the best quality of life for their children, Fund It Forward believes these families deserve help in addressing their concerns: We help them obtain expensive medical and adaptive equipment such as augmentative communication devices, bathing and feeding chairs, enclosed beds or sensory equipment.
MyGOAL Inc. Enrichment Grant is a grant program that will enable families to take advantage of socialization and educational opportunities designed for individuals with special needs.
Such interactive activities are beneficial for the development of individual(s) with Autism Spectrum Disorders, but often times these programs are not covered privately or by other third-party funding sources such as school districts.
The purpose of the grants is to enrich the body, mind, and spirit of individual(s) with Autism Spectrum Disorders, resulting in a higher quality of life.
Zane’s Foundation, Inc. is a non-profit 501(c) 3 organization. We help children and adults with special needs by educating their families about beneficial resources that will improve their loved one’s academic achievement. We also assist with financial support. Financial support can be designated for things such as: camps, therapies, respite, assistive or adaptive equipment, communicative devices that help to meet daily challenges.
Since 1958, Muscular Dystrophy Family Foundation (MDFF) has provided financial assistance, quality programs and services for the Muscular Dystrophy community in Indiana. We focus on providing adaptive equipment and direct support services to individuals and family members affected by a neuromuscular disease.
Direct support services include annual social events and other equipment and services that enable those with Muscular Dystrophy to enjoy greater mobility and independence.
The Marty Lyons Foundation (MLF) was established in 1982 to fulfill the special wishes of children, ages three (3) to seventeen (17) years old, who have been diagnosed as having a terminal or life-threatening illness by providing and arranging special wish requests. We are unique in that we will grant a second wish to a deserving child.
The Foundation has 10 Chapters granting wishes in 13 states – Alabama, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia.
Shriners Hospitals for Children has a mission to:
- Provide the highest quality care to children with neuromusculoskeletal conditions, burn injuries and other special healthcare needs within a compassionate, family-centered and collaborative care environment.
- Provide for the education of physicians and other healthcare professionals.
- Conduct research to discover new knowledge that improves the quality of care and quality of life of children and families.
In 1980, The Dream Factory began with one all-volunteer chapter in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Since then, The Dream Factory has grown into the largest all-volunteer children’s wish-granting organization in the United States, all while maintaining a grassroots approach. The Dream Factory continues to operate all 32 of its local chapters with very dedicated volunteers. These hard-working individuals raise funds within their own communities and then use those funds to grant the dreams of local children.
We provide grants for a wide range of items, such as washing machines, sensory toys, family breaks, bedding, tablets, furniture, outdoor play equipment, clothing and computers. It can be a struggle financially, emotionally and physically for families raising a disabled or seriously ill child, and these grants help break down many of the barriers families face, improving their quality of life and easing the additional daily pressures.
Our Mission: To ensure that each individual with ASD is provided the means to achieve quality of life as a respected member of society.
Autism Ontario (formerly Autism Society Ontario) is the leading source of information and referral on autism and one of the largest collective voices representing the autism community. Members are connected through a volunteer network of Chapters throughout the Province of Ontario.
BC Autism Funding for children under age six: Families can access up to $22,000 per year per child to help pay for eligible autism intervention services and therapies. Parents are required to select professional service providers from the Registry of Autism Service Providers (RASP).
Funding for children aged 6-18: Families can access up to $6,000 per year per child to help pay for eligible out-of-school autism intervention services and therapies.
helps persons with disabilities or their supporting persons reduce the
amount of income tax they may have to pay. An individual may claim
the disability amount once they are eligible for the DTC. This amount
includes a supplement for persons under 18 years of age at the end
of the year.
Starlight Children’s Foundation partners with experts to improve the life and health of kids and families around the world.
For over 23 years, Starlight Children’s Foundation has been transforming the lives of Canadian children who live with serious illness and their families. What makes us unique is that we are there for the entire journey—from the emergency room to recovery.
Some examples of situations where the Foundation will give assistance are:
• | certain medical or dental procedures (not including standard orthodontics). |
• | assisting special needs children to attend summer camps and other recreational pursuits. |
• | providing to other charities, equipment and facilities such as boats, special needs vehicles and playground equipment. |
The mental, physical, and financial strain can devastate families.
The goal of this organization is to alleviate some of the financial burden , and make a difference in the life of a child.