WITH Foundation Open Grant Program in the US

Deadline: 6-Dec-24

Applications are now open for the WITH Foundation Open Grant Program to provide financial support to organizations that promote comprehensive healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities.

Areas of Support

• Programs that improve delivery of healthcare to adult consumers with developmental disabilities and include at least one of the following:
  • Improve health practitioner competency through education and/or training programs
  • Address the current inadequate reimbursement system
  • Advance innovations in formal care coordination
  • Enhance advocacy regarding the inadequacies of developmentally disabled care in order to advance systemic change
  • Increase understanding of supported decision-making in healthcare settings
  • National efforts in digital health that support designers and developers to include the perspectives/experiences of the IDD community within the design process, in order to create better technology for all
  • Social policy research
  • Identify and overcome barriers to high-quality healthcare access
  • General operating support is only considered for grantees that have previously utilized the project funding

Core Values

• They embrace, intentionally demonstrate, and give preference to organizations that share the following core values:
  • An Intersectional Approach: They celebrate adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities that may also hold other historically excluded identities on the basis of race, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, veteran status, and/or linguistic and communication diversity;
  • Expertise and Leadership of the Most Impacted: They value the leadership and expertise of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities and engage them within the Board of Directors, executive leadership, staffing, vendors/contracting, and via advisory committees. They also compensate experts and leaders with I/DD in ways that support parity between adults with I/DD and their non-disabled peers;
  • A Cultural Humility Approach: When entering into partnerships, they are committed to self-evaluation with the attempt to address power imbalances so that (ideally) partnerships are mutually beneficial and non-paternalistic and
  • Innovative and “Outside of the Box” Thinking: They value unique and creative solutions that challenge traditional assumptions about disability healthcare service delivery, i.e. innovations in formal care coordination, regional or national models that address the current inadequate reimbursement system, etc. They support the exploration of original approaches that advance healthcare equity for adults with I/DD.

Funding Information

• WITH will consider grants of up to $150,000.

Eligibility Criteria

• Only 501(c)(3) organizations are eligible for funding at this time.
• WITH Foundation is a national grantmaker. While applications from the San Francisco Bay Area may be given preferential consideration, applications from other areas in the United States are not excluded. WITH does not provide funding to organizations and programs based outside of the United States.

Ineligibility Criteria

• Although WITH understands that many factors impact healthcare service delivery for adults with developmental disabilities, the following areas are excluded from consideration for funding:
  • Specific therapies that are provided outside of a formal healthcare setting, i.e. physical fitness and/or nutritional programs (“healthy lifestyle programs”);
  • Targeted therapeutic interventions including, but not limited to, occupational, physical, and speech therapies, and equestrian therapy;
  • Projects that do not address healthcare delivery;
  • Programs that are solely focused on direct support professionals;
  • Funding for political campaigns, candidates, or legislation;
  • Individuals and/or equipment for individuals;
  • Funding for transportation vehicles;
  • Organizations or programs that are based and/or provide services to populations outside the United States;
  • Endowments and organizational debt reduction;
  • Capital campaigns and building related requests.

For more information, visit WITH Foundation.