Grants
Grants for children and their families
Research Grants & Fellowships

Grants for Children and their Families

Act Today: Autism Care and Treatment
ACT relies on the ability to raise funds in order to reward grants to those they determine are appropriate. To learn more, click here.

UnitedHealthcare Children’s Foundation Inc
Children who have medical needs are sometimes not insured comprehensively to provide coverage for all of their medical treatments. There are few places for families who have gaps in their commercial health benefit plan coverage to turn to for funding medically necessary services for their children. Children may go without necessary treatment, or, they receive the care and families assume a large amount of debt. The Foundation understands these needs and is willing to help fill this void. For more information, click here.

The Doug Flutie Foundation
The Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation awards grants on an annual basis to non-profit organizations and schools that provide services, education and advocacy for children with ASD and to organizations that conduct research on the causes and effects of autism. Grant guidelines are posted on their website each year in July. For more information, click here.

NeighborHeart Quality of Life Grants
These grants are available to families caring for children and adults with autism that reside in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States (i.e., Virginia, Washington, D.C., Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York). The $500 grants can be used for anything that improves the family’s quality of life, including therapy, medical treatment and travel, respite care, educational advocacy services, training fees and security improvements. For more information, click here.

Autism Support Daily
Autism Support Daily assists Vermont families coping with autism through its two grant programs. Fall Harvest Grants of up to $400 are available to pay for therapy sessions, evaluations, supplements, prescriptions, medical treatments, laboratory testing, adaptive programs, communication devices, travel costs and other expenses. Applications are due by November 15, 2008. For more information, click here.

Autism Help Network
The Autism Help Network provides grants of up to $1,000 to provide therapy and non-experimental biomedical treatments to children who have autism. Families that have combined salaries of less than $45,000 per year are eligible to apply for the grants. To apply for a grant or make a donation to the Autism Help Network, send an email to office@autismhelpforyou.org. For more information, click here.

Autism Resource Foundation
This foundation works in collaboration with the HOPE Group and provides training and certification to Arizona families of children who have autism that enables them to receive compensation for working with other parents and their children with special needs. For more information, click here.

Autism Family resource
Autism Family resources offers one-time $500 grants to families affected by autism. For more information, click here.

The Helping Hand Program for 2008 is primarily funded by a generous donation from the Fuller Family, in honor of Cole Fuller. The Helping Hand Program provides families with financial assistance in getting necessary biomedical treatments, supplements and therapy services. For more information, click here.

Research Grants & Fellowships

Organization for Autism Research
OAR conducts open grant competitions to select pilot studies for funding in autism research each year. One is for researchers; the other is for graduate students conducting autism research in support of an advanced degree. Both competitions are intended to promote research in the analysis, evaluation, or comparison of assessment or treatment models, focusing on aspects of early education, behavioral, or communication intervention and adult issues such as continuing education, employment, housing models and “later intervention.” For more information, click here.

Autism Speaks Funding for Autism Research Awards and Fellowships
Autism Speaks is dedicated to funding biomedical research into the causes, prevention, treatments, and cure for autism; to raising public awareness about autism and its effects on individuals, families, and society; and to bringing to all who deal with the hardships of this disorder. They are committed to raising the funds necessary to support these goals. For more information, click here.