Funds for a Cause - Find a Funding Bank

“Small acts when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.” - Howard Zinn

• Beware of Scams

  • Scammers as to send money

  • Scammers ask for personal information

  • Scammers ask to pay to apply for a scholarship or funding

  • Always report fraud

• Savings

  • Set aside funds with each pay check

• Network

  • Ask for support from friends, family, friends of friends, neighborhood members and community

  • Ask local schools, churches, scouts, 4-H, Fraternities, Sororities, Lions Club, Eagles Club, and American Legion for support to host a fundraiser

  • Ask newspaper or radio stations for support

  • Ask businesses for support using therapeutic, medically necessary language, may discuss employee matching funds

  • Ask food pantries, animal shelters, pet pantries for support

  • Ask a Homeless shelter to offer funding or support, what resources do they have

  • Ask to host Pampered Chef, Longaberger, Scentsy, Cookie Lee Jewelry party

  • Ask to advocate at a fair, convention, or conference

  • Ask to participate in a race or 5-K

  • Ask for help on pay it forward sites, marketplaces, eBay, freecylce.org and have proceeds go to funding your cause

  • Ask to have a garage or yard sale,

  • Ask to sell candy bars, pasta, magazines, yard flamingos, threads of hope

  • Ask as part of a letter campaign

  • Ask how to find membership programs where members nominate individuals and agencies for support

• Give-back Campaigns

  • we-care.com

  • Kroger Fundraiser

  • Smile.amazon.com - donating .5% of eligible purchases back to organization

  • Shop or buy on Charity Day

• Crowdfunding Campaigns or Social Media Challenges

  • Funditfwd.org

  • Fundraz4.com

  • helphopelive.org

  • indiegogo.com

  • lotshelpinghands.com

  • Makeitfit.org

  • Rockethub.com

  • Gofundme.com

  • Youcaring.com

  • GiveForward.com

  • Flipcause.com

  • justgiving.com

  • kindful.com

• Search Other Non-Profits

  • Roundup app

  • https://www.insidephilanthropy.com

  • Great Nonprofits - Top Rated

  • A better place.org - provides marketing campaigns, partner portals, and additional donations through corporate partner solutions.

• Apply for Local, State, and Federal Programs

  • Apply for Medicaid

  • Apply for SSI

  • Check your insurance policy for coverage and assistance

  • Apply for Medicaid or a crisis waiver

  • Advocate in an IEP

  • Sign up for a Christmas program (angel tree, shop with a cop, toys for tots)

• Look into Supportive Agencies that Offer Support

  • Find help: https://www.findhelp.org/

  • See help find help funding page

Help Find Help

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(best of the best pages - also see Advosource by Type Bank)

• Pan Foundation

  • Website: https://www.panfoundation.org

  • Find a disease fund, Medicaid eligible, under a specific income threshold

• $ Together Rising

  • Website: https://togetherrising.org

  • Description: Transforms collective heartbreak into effective action. Individuals, families, or organizations can request support. They receive funding through flash fundraisers.

• $ Cerner Charitable Foundation

  • Website: www.cernercharitablefoundation.org

  • Description: Formally First Hand Foundation, provides care kits, community grants, and medical grants to people in need of care which isn’t covered by insurance.

• *$ Children’s Charity Care Program

  • Website: usvariety.org

  • Description: Provides critical life-saving medical equipment and services, healthcare, and well-being to children and children’s health organizations, grants for medical equipment such as auditory items, dental care like orthodontics and braces, food feeding programs, oxygen, suction and insulin pumps, nebulizer, medicine, sensory equipment prosthetic, respite care, electrical stimulation devices, seizure alarms, humidicribs

• Chico Rancheria Housing Corporation

  • Website: unknown

  • Description: Safe and affordable housing to low income Native Americans

• $ Children of Restaurant Employees (CORE)

  • Website: unknown

  • Description: Provides support to food and beverage employees with children experiencing hardship to help pay for emergency payments, food, healthcare, hosing, gas, utilities, internet/phone, transit, financial assistance, or childcare

• $ Dramatics Guild Foundation (DGF)

  • Website: unknown

  • Description: Emergency financial assistance to individual playwrights, composers, lyricists, and book writers, assists with emergency payments, healthcare costs, housing costs, financial assistance, childcare, etc.

• & Friends of Man

  • Website: https://www.friendsofman.org

  • Description: In Colorado - Offers a general assistance program specific to their general transplant program, transplant medication program, and single parents in Colorado program. Professionals can apply on behalf of their patients and clients needing mobility equipment, prosthetics, glasses, dentures, hearing aids, and much more!

• $ Giving Angels Foundation

  • Website: https://givingangelsfoundation.org/

  • Description: Assists special needs children from lower-income families with a physical disability aged 21 years or younger throughout the United States.

• $ Midwest Hemophilia Association (MHA)

  • Website: unknown

  • Description: Fund to eligible families that have incurred expenses related to care, treatment or prevention of a bleeding disorder or basic living expense

• Kiva

  • Website: www.kiva.org

  • Description: An international non-profit, providing crowdfunding loans

• $ Emily Ann Griffin Foundation

  • Website: http://www.eagf.org

  • Description: Touches the lives of families who are not able to afford the costly medical equipment often prescribed to support and enhance a child’s life. They explore funding to keep kids on the move, accessible, safe, communicating, supported, healthy, and happy.

• Johnny’s Rainbow Foundation

  • Website: https://www.facebook.com/JohnnysRainbowFoundation

  • Description: Helping kids with special needs - Apply for a $250 grant

• Lester’s Feet Foundation

  • Website: https://www.lestersfeetfoundation.org/

  • Description: You must have a child or dependent that has a condition that prohibits you from working or creates a temporary loss of income

• Odd Shoe Exchange Program

  • Website: http://oddshoe.org

  • Description: A resource for new, quality single shoes and pairs of significantly different sized shoes helping those with injury, disease or genetic disorders.

• Paige’s Princes Foundation

  • Website: unknown

  • Description: Provides small grants to pediatric patients with life-long disabilities. They are not condition-specific and consider applications from any disorder or diagnosis that results in the disability of a child.

• Estusu Rent Relief Fund

  • Website:

  • Description: interest-free loans to individuals impacted by loss due to Covid-19

• $Small Steps in Speech

  • Website: https://www.smallstepsinspeech.org/

  • Description: helping children with speech and/or language disorders take the steps needed to be better communicators. Non-profit organization which provides grants on behalf of children with speech and language disorders for therapies, treatments, communicative devices and other services not covered by insurance or Medicaid aimed at improving their communication skills plan.

• North Star Foundation

  • Website: https://northstarf.org

  • Description: Dedicated to helping people affected by disasters, economical instability, joblessness, disability, medical need, and orphan through medical aid to hospitals, food, and clothing for the needy, special educational programs, reconstruction of buildings, basic computer needs,

• The Orange Effect Foundation

  • Website: https://theorangeeffect.org

  • Description: Ensuring children with speech disorders receive the speech therapy and technology they need.

• $ iTAALK

  • Website: https://www.itaalk.org/grant-and-funding-source-list

  • Description: Children with autism, a voice-assisted technology with a database with over 700 resources

• St. Christopher Truckers Relief Fund (SCF)

  • Website:

  • Description: Emergency funds for over-the-load (500+ miles/day) semi-truck drivers out of work due to medical problems

• $ Special Kids Therapy

  • Website: HTTPS://SPECIALKIDS.US

  • Description: Raises money for children with developmental, physical and/or emotional difficulties for therapies and services not covered by private or public insurance in Grosse Point Michigan

• A Wish Come True:

  • Website: https://www.awish.org

  • Description: Grants children suffering from a life-threatening illness a magical wish in Rhode Island and Massachusetts

• Annie’s Angels

  • Website: https://www.anniesangels.org:

  • Description: supports local families struggling financially through a life-threatening disease, or illness. Support disability connecting neighbor to neighbor, friend to friend, and business to business in a caring fundraising network.

• Global Giving

  • Website: https://www.globalgiving.org

  • Description: Connects nonprofits with donors and companies

Scholarships/Grants

• Administration for Community Living (support families at risk of institutionalization)

• California Endowment (health of Californians)

• Footlocker Foundation (diversity and empowerment)

• Genentech/Roche (medicine and education)

• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

• LSP Foundation (social entrepreneurship)

• Visa Everywhere Initiative Grant

Unattainable, yet Noteworthy

• Red Tab Foundation: The Red Tab Foundation is a nonprofit foundation that assists Levi Strauss & Co. employees, retirees, and their families who face problems caused by unexpected financial hardship

• Gruber Family Foundation: no unsolicited requests - supports education, women and reproductive rights, news and investigative media, social safety nets, arts, and film and environmental causes.

• Hilton Foundation: no unsolicited requests - individuals living in poverty and experiencing disadvantage throughout the world, good neighbor grants

• Pincus Family Foundation: supports organizations and programs promoting children’s health, education, safety, nutrition, recreation, and the arts locally and worldwide.