Funding Respite Care
Help for Your Quest
On this page:
- Funding for Alabama Respite Programs
- Funding for Individuals in Alabama
- National Sources of Funding for Respite Programs
- Help With Writing Your Grant Proposal
Funding for Alabama Respite Programs:
Database of potential sources of funding for respite programs in Alabama. These are grantors that have funded health or disability-related programs in the past.
Funding for Individuals in Alabama:
State Funded Respite Sources:
- Alabama Department of Public Health - Medicaid Elderly and Disabled (E&D) waiver; Life Care Program, a private pay service.
- Alabama Medicaid Agency - Long Term Care and Community based Waiver Services
- Department of Mental Health/Mental Retardation - MR-DD Waiver; Living at Home Waiver
- Alabama Department of Senior Services - AlCares; Alzheimer’s Initiative
- Department of Human Resources - Family Services Foster Care program
Other sources for respite in Alabama:
- Individual and Family Supports – Legislated source of funding for a variety of services (including respite) for families of children with developmental disability.
- UCP Huntsville - The HEARTS Program, funded by a grant from the Children’s Trust Fund, offers voucher respite to families in 5 North Alabama counties.
- UCP of East Central Alabama - The ECAUCP Respite Project, funded by a grant from the Children’s Trust Fund, offers voucher respite to families in the East Central Alabama Counties of Calhoun, Cleburne, Clay and Talladega.
- UCP Mobile - Voucher respite programs that help caregivers find and/or train their own respite providers. Funded by several local foundations and the Alabama Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation.
- UCP Of Northwest Alabama - Helping Hands program.
- Alabama Head Injury Foundation - Offers funds for respite services to individuals caring for those with head injury.
- Faith Based Initiatives - Several churches in Alabama have developed a “Parent’s Night Out” for special needs children and their siblings. These programs are ministries of the churches, staffed by volunteers.
- Americorps - Volunteer service organization, offering respite to all ages and disabilities.
- Some support organizations have discretionary consumer funds that can be used to pay for respite.
National Sources of Funding for Respite Programs:
- The Association of Small Foundations is a resource of foundations offering grants.
- Child Care Online - Childcare grants can be a possible source of funding for respite quality program. The main concern to watch out for is to make a distinct difference in your proposal that childcare and respite are not the same service! To assist their visitors, Child Care Online has done extensive research about where to find grants for child care programs. Their database is searchable by nation or state. You will find lists of government grant programs and corporate funds.
- The Council of Foundations – Here you will find a list of grant makers and grant programs. This is a membership site “promoting knowledge, growth, and action in philanthropy.”
- The Foundation Center's mission is to collect, organize, and communicate information on U.S. philanthropy; conduct and facilitate research on trends in the field; provide education and training on the grant seeking process; ensure public access to information and services through a World Wide Web site, print and electronic publications, five library/learning centers, and a national network of Cooperating Collections.
- Governmentgrants.org – A listing of grants available through the U.S. Government covering a wide range of needs and issues is available at this website. You can also find tips on grant writing and other frequently asked questions about government grants.
- GrantsNet is an an Internet application tool for finding and exchanging information about HHS and other Federal grant programs. GrantsNet serves the general public, the grantee community, and grant-makers (i.e. state and local governments, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and commercial businesses). GrantsNet provides a variety of Department-wide grant policies governing the award and administration of grant activities, publishing these in grant policy directives, regulations, and/or manuals.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is dedicated to improving the health and health care of all Americans. On this site you can find information on their various funding opportunities, as well as search their funding database.
Help With Writing Your Grant Proposal:
- ARCH National Website
is the best place to begin your search for information to answer the question,
“What is respite?” This website offers a multitude of online
documents addressing issues such as presentation of your proposal, background
information on the national respite movement, and other fact sheets to assist
you in your effort to fund respite programs.
Some of the Fact Sheets available from ARCH:
- The Foundation Center website provides an online newsletter with the latest updates on funding searches, writing techniques and a cornucopia of other information for the grant writer. This site also has a searchable database for possible sources of funding. For a nominal monthly fee, you can access additional information about possible funding sources as well.
- Grantstech.com has helpful information on general grant writing skills and approaches. This website offers a page on grant writing tools, lists of the latest publications on grant writing and the top organizations that offer grants.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation offers a wealth of information on many aspects of funding a project. On this particular link you can find grant result reports. RWJ Foundation leads the nation in funding faith-based respite care projects.
- Marquette University Funding Information Center provides links to bibliographies on funding resources and lists names of foundations they have collected.
- Maryland Cooperative Extension has an example of a successful grant proposal for a childcare program.
- Nonprofit Resource Center offers information and insight on grant proposal development geared specifically toward nonprofit organizations.
- Philanthropy Journal offers nonprofit web talk, a newsletter and technical assistance.
- Scholastic, Inc. is a national leader in the publication of education materials. Scholastic has made available an online presentation on successful grant proposals written by Linda Weber, National Grant and Research Specialist. This presentation is visually rich and information-packed.
- Treelink.com is another great resource for basic grant writing information offering basic information about fundraising and grant seeking.
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