Funding for People with Disabilities:
A Resource List
The Foundation Center libraries actively collect funding directories useful to individuals with disabilities and the nonprofit organizations that support them. This list contains citations to print resources, as well as links to web sites and online resources from a variety of public and private organizations. Individuals may seek additional guidance by referring to the Center's Reference Guide for Individuals with Disabilities, and nonprofits may find supplementary information by browsing Fundraising for Health: A Resource List. For other articles and books useful to people with disabilities, search the Catalog of Nonprofit Literature, the Center's bibliographic database. To assist individuals whose disabilities make visiting a Foundation Center library or Cooperating Collection either impossible or a hardship, the Center now offers special borrowing privileges. To learn more, please click here.
Resources for Individuals
Books
- Edelson, Phyllis, ed. Foundation Grants to Individuals. New York, NY: The Foundation Center, annual.
- Profiles more than 6,500 foundation programs that make grants to individuals for education, arts and culture, general welfare, and more.
- Schlachter, Gail Ann; Weber, R. David. Financial Aid for the Disabled and Their Families. El Dorado Hills, CA: Reference Service Press, biennial.
- Provides current and comprehensive information about hundreds of scholarship, fellowship, loan, grant, and award programs established and designed primarily or exclusively for the disabled or members of their families. Entries are grouped under chapter categories: disabilities in general; orthopedic and developmental disabilities; hearing disabilities; visual disabilities; communication and other disabilities; and programs for families of the disabled. In addition, the directory contains a list of state sources of information on educational benefits and an annotated bibliography of general financial aid directories. Indexed by program title, sponsoring organization, geographic eligibility, subject, and filing deadline.
- Schlachter, Gail Ann. Funding for Persons with Visual Impairments. Large print ed. El Dorado Hills, CA: Reference Service Press, biennial.
- Describes scholarships, fellowships, loans, grants-in-aid, awards, and internships.
- Online
- Foundation Grants to Individuals Online
- The Foundation Center's online database of more than 6,500 grant opportunities for individuals (updated quarterly). Available as a monthly, quarterly, or annual subscription.
- ABLEDATA
- A federally funded project with a primary mission of providing information on assistive technology and rehabilitation equipment available from domestic and international sources to consumers, organizations, professionals, and caregivers within the United States.
- DisabilityInfo.gov
- The government web portal presents links to the home pages of federal agencies and programs that provide assistance to people with disabilities, including sections on Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security Benefits. See also GovBenefits.gov
- Michigan State University Libraries—Grants for Individuals: The Disabled
- A comprehensive listing of funding opportunities including web sites, databases, books, and announcements.
- Foundation Center Reference Guide for Individuals with Disabilities
- Browse this User Aid for additional web links as well as tips on finding grants for individuals.
Resources for Nonprofits
Books
- Foundation Center. Grants for Mental Health, Addictions and Crisis Services. New York, NY: Foundation Center, annual.
- Lists more then 14,000 grants of $10,000 or more made by approximately 860 foundations for psychiatric hospitals; mental health centers and clinics; hotline/crisis intervention services; alcohol, drug and substance abuse prevention and treatment programs; mental health counseling and support groups; family, pastoral, and bereavement counseling; addictive disorders; Alzheimer's disease; services for the autistic, developmentally and learning disabled; and special education and research.
- Foundation Center. Grants for People With Disabilities. New York, NY: Foundation Center, annual.
- Lists more than 14,000 grants of $10,000 or more made by approximately 990 foundations for hospitals, schools, mental health associations, and primary care facilities for research, medical and dental care, vocational training, education, diagnosis and evaluation, prevention information, recreation, rehabilitation, transportation, legal aid, and scholarships. Grants for people with mental disabilities covers grants to schools, mental health associations, and social service agencies for research, education, recreation, vocational training, rehabilitation, family counseling, and general care. Disabilities include blindness, deafness, arthritis, cerebral palsy, multiple sclerosis, muscular dystrophy, and Parkinson's disease, as well as autism, learning disabilities, and Alzheimer's disease.
- The Complete Directory for People with Disabilities: A Comprehensive Source Book for Individuals and Professionals. Millerton, NY: Grey House Publishing, Inc., annual.
- The directory contents include foundations, national and state agencies and associations, camps and exchange programs, manufacturers of assistive devices, clothing, computer equipment and supplies, print and electronic media, living centers and facilities, libraries and research centers, and conferences and trade shows.
- Eckstein, Richard M. (ed.) Directory of Grants for Organizations Serving People with Disabilities: A Reference Directory to Identifying Grants Available to Nonprofit Organizations. 12th ed. Loxahatchee, FL: Research Grant Guides, 2005. 152 p.
- Brief entries that describe foundations providing funding for programs and services in the following areas: accessibility projects, blind, cultural programs, deaf, developmentally disabled, education, elderly, emotionally disturbed, eye research, independent living programs, learning disabilities, mental health, mentally disabled, physically disabled, rehabilitation and speech impaired. Indexed.
- Online
- Foundation Directory Online
- Search the Foundation Center's comprehensive database of U.S. grantmakers and grants for funders that have an interest in organizations that support people with disabilities.
- Philanthropy News Digest Request for Proposals (RFP) Bulletin
- Browse the latest requests for proposals from grantmakers.
- Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
- Browse the catalog of federal assistance programs by selecting beneficiary type for "Handicapped" (69) to find grant opportunities for organizations that serve people with disabilities. See also Grants.gov.
- Disability Funders Network
- While the Disability Funders Network is a membership organization for grantmakers, its web site provides a resource area that is useful to grantseekers.
- Disability Funding News Online
- A semimonthly newsletter that provides information on public and private grant opportunities, tips from consultants, and case studies.
- The Disability Resources Monthly (DRM) Guide to Disability Resources on the Internet
- This web portal includes resources on public and private funding for nonprofit organizations and researchers working with people with disabilities.
- The Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
- Through its various grant programs, the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services provides grants for research, education, and the rehabilitation of people with disabilities.
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