DISABILITY
Helping Families Navigate the Costs of Disability
Helping families find funding possibilities for equipment, therapies, accessibility, recreation, services, and other needs.
Explore Disability ResourcesTHE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S FINANCIAL ADVOCACY INITIATIVE
Helping families navigate the financial side of caring for a child.
The Funding Project supports families navigating complex medical journeys with education, practical resources, and personalized guidance to help them access funding for their children's care and essential needs.
Our work brings together Funding Guides + Companion Workbooks, the 13-step financial advocacy process, family education, and national partnerships so parents have a clearer place to begin and practical next steps to move forward.
THE NATIONAL FAMILY RESOURCE LIBRARY
Practical resources for different family needs.
Our Funding Guides + Companion Workbooks help families navigate financial questions connected to disability, NICU stays, childhood cancer, autism, and other complex medical needs.
Rare Disease & Complex Medical NeedsIncluded as a chapter within our Funding Guides, with an expanding national focus for families navigating rare and complex medical needs.
Funding Guides + Companion Workbooks
Disability
Funding Guide+Companion Workbook
Workbook Available NowFunding Guide Coming Soon
NICU
Funding Guide+Companion Workbook
Available NowAlso available in Spanish
Autism
Funding Guide+Companion Workbook
Coming SoonDownloads coming soon
Childhood Cancer
Funding Guide+Companion Workbook
Coming SoonDownloads coming soon
This is where families will open or download each resource as the files are posted.
NATIONAL EXPANSION
Rare Disease & Complex Medical Needs
A diagnosis may be rare. The financial challenges families face are often shared.
Families may be managing travel for specialty care, equipment, therapies, transportation, insurance limitations, lost income, and other needs tied to their child’s care. The Funding Project helps parents understand where to begin, explore possible funding sources, and use our established 13-step financial advocacy process to build a financial plan around their child’s needs.
FAMILIESPATIENT ADVOCACYHOSPITALSBIOPHARMANATIONAL PARTNERS
NATIONAL FAMILY RESOURCE AWARENESS CAMPAIGN
Awareness helps more families find the resources.
WHY THE CAMPAIGN MATTERS
Awareness brings families to the resources.
The National Family Resource Awareness Campaign gives families a reason to discover The Funding Project, then connects them to Funding Guides + Companion Workbooks, financial advocacy education, and practical next steps.
PARTNERS
Help us reach more families.
Hospitals, patient advocacy organizations, family organizations, and Product Partners can help share resources, connect families, contribute real products and prizes, and strengthen national campaign reach.
SPONSORS
Help fund the national campaign.
Corporate, biopharma, foundation, and philanthropic sponsors provide the financial support that helps expand family resources, national awareness, digital outreach, campaign infrastructure, and our ability to reach families across the country.
3 STEPS TO GET YOU STARTED
Financial advocacy is more than finding a list of programs.
Understand where to begin
Start with the child's needs and build a clear picture of what the family is trying to fund.
Explore possible funding sources
Learn where assistance may exist beyond insurance and which categories may fit the family's needs.
Use the 13-step financial advocacy process
Organize information, prepare stronger requests, and move forward with practical next steps.
ABOUT THE FUNDING PROJECT
Built from real family experience.
The Funding Project grew from one family's need to find a way forward when insurance and traditional resources did not cover what a child needed. That work became a financial advocacy process, a growing library of family resources, and a national effort to help more parents know where to begin.
Tammy Simmons
Founder & Executive Director
HELP US REACH MORE FAMILIES
Connect with The Funding Project.
Families, hospitals, patient advocacy organizations, sponsors, and product partners are invited to connect with us as this work grows.