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The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation
Quality of Life Grants Program

Description: The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations that provide services to individuals with paralysis.

Through its Quality of Life program, the foundation will award grants to organizations that help disabled individuals and their families and caregivers in ways that more immediately give them increased independence.

The program supports a wide array of programs that are organized in three key thematic areas: Actively Achieving, Bridging Barriers, or Caring and Coping (ABC's).

1) Actively Achieving: This category supports programs that provide individuals with disabilities opportunities to participate in activities that engage their bodies and minds. Actively Achieving programs promote interaction with other people in positive community settings and nurture independence and personal growth. Sports, arts, recreation, education, and employment initiatives are all grouped in this category.

2) Bridging Barriers: This category supports projects that address and offer solutions to barriers for independent living across the disability community. Barriers may be structurally evident, such as lack of ramps or other means of access in buildings with stairs or lack of curb cuts on sidewalks. Other barriers are far less obvious, such as lack of accessible transportation, inability to operate a computer due to limited hand function, failure to receive dental or gynecological care as a result of inaccessible examination equipment, inability of uninsured or underinsured individuals to secure a properly fitted wheelchair, and discrimination in the workplace.

3) Caring and Coping: Caring and Coping projects provide services that address the complex day-to-day health and personal issues for individuals living with disabilities and their families and caregivers.

Funding Available: Multiple awards up to $25,000 each

Eligibility: 501(c) nonprofits and serve individuals with physical disabilities, particularly paralysis, and their families.

Deadline: August 15, 2016

Contact Information:  Questions (1-800) 539-7309; e-mail, QoL@ChristopherReeve.org; See the Reeve Foundation website  for complete program guidelines and application instructions.

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