5th week of 2014---California Funding Resources
(Added 11/2/14) Darrell Gwynn Foundation
Donates custom power and manual wheelchairs to children and adults facing medical and financial hardships in southern California.
(Added 11/2/14) For Kids Foundation in Monterey Bay
For Kids Foundation Monterey Bay is the financial provider of last resort for unmet critical needs of children under the age of 20 in Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito Counties in California.
(Added 11/2/14) San Diego Adaptive Sports Association
Improve the quality of life for children and adults with physical disabilities through sports and recreation. ASRA works to coordinate and foster a program of adaptive sports for individuals with a permanent physical disability that prevents them from participating in sports and athletics by providing competitive league sports, recreational team sports, instructional camps, sports clinics, and offers other adaptive sports based on need and interest. Mainly in the San Diego area and all free for families.
California Arts and Assessibility Technical Assistance Program
Provides small, but critical grants of $500 to $1000 to artists with disabilities and $500 up to $1500 to arts organizations.
Debbie Chisholm Memorial Foundation
Grants wishes of catastrophically ill children in southern California.
Hope Cancer Fund
Helps cancer patients and their family with special financial needs. Payment direct to family. Currently helping families in California, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, and Wyoming.
Make-A-Wish Greater Bay Area
Takes referrals of kids with life-threatening medical conditions every year and grant them a wish that changes lives, forever.
PAUSE4kids
Provides scholarship or grant funding for programs or services for children with special needs within the area served by Ventura County SELPA.
Spectrum of Hope Foundation
Children under the age of 7 with an autism diagnosis needing assistance with ABA, speech therapy, legal fees, parent trainings.
Talk About Curing Autism
TACA San Diego Chapter families have the opportunity to apply for a scholarship to see a MAPS doctor of their choice for a maximum of $1000.