Families often know exactly what their child needs. The harder part is figuring out how to fund it.
Parents may be navigating therapies, adaptive equipment, accessibility needs, medical care, school supports, insurance gaps, specialized services, and major expenses, often without anyone showing them where to begin financially.
The Funding Project helps families turn that uncertainty into a clear process. The Disability Funding Guide, Companion Workbook, Tammy's Proven 13-Step Process, and personalized guidance help parents identify what their child needs, gather the right documentation, explore possible funding sources, prepare stronger requests, follow up, and keep moving forward when the first answer is no.
You Don't Have To Figure This Out Alone.
The Disability Funding Guide helps parents understand the funding process, explore possible funding sources, prepare stronger requests, and keep moving when the first answer is no.
The Companion Workbook helps parents organize their child's needs, documents, research, applications, contacts, follow-ups, and next steps in one place.
Built around Tammy's Proven 13-Step Process, it helps parents put what they learn in the Guide into action.
The Guide helps families understand the possibilities. The Workbook helps them put the process into action.
Spanish-language versions of the Disability Funding Guide, Second Edition and Companion Workbook are coming soon.
These resources will help more Spanish-speaking families access practical financial advocacy guidance, funding information, organization, and next-step support.
They will also give hospitals, healthcare professionals, disability organizations, schools, nonprofits, and community partners resources they can share with Spanish-speaking families.
Matthew lives with four rare diseases. Like many children with complex medical needs, his family has had to navigate ongoing medical appointments, specialized care, therapies, adaptive equipment, and costs that quickly go beyond what standard insurance covers.
Matthew first received an adaptive bike through Project Mobility, opening the door to movement, joy, and greater independence.
Now, as he has grown, Matthew has received a new adaptive bike that fits his current needs, and his original bike has been passed along to another child who can use it.
His story is a powerful example of how support, shared resources, and practical advocacy can continue creating possibilities for families over time.
His full story is coming soon.
It began with one family trying to find funding for one child.
Tammy's nephew Jacob was born thirteen weeks early, weighing just two pounds. As his needs grew, so did the costs of the equipment, services, care, and opportunities that could help him live more fully.
When traditional funding did not cover everything Jacob needed, Tammy began looking elsewhere. She researched foundations, community organizations, charitable programs, fundraising possibilities, and other sources families were rarely shown how to find.
What started as a funding plan for Jacob became something other families could use too.
That early work eventually grew into the Disability Funding Guide, Tammy's Proven 13-Step Process, and the broader financial advocacy work of The Funding Project.
One child started the journey. Thousands of families can now benefit from what was learned along the way.
"It all started with Tammy's book, the Disability Funding Guide."
Melissa Copp
Melissa and her husband Jody were raising two boys with significant accessibility needs when Melissa met Tammy at the Abilities Expo.
Their family was trying to fund a fully accessible home. Tammy helped Melissa think through the funding possibilities, build a plan, and keep making the ask even when the first answers were no.
Melissa kept going.
Her family's story eventually reached the Tim Tebow Foundation and Chip and Joanna Gaines, leading to an extraordinary accessible-home project that changed what was possible for their family.
A practical step-by-step process to help parents organize what their child needs, explore possible funding sources, prepare stronger requests, follow up, and keep moving forward.
Explore Tammy’s Proven 13-Step ProcessThe Disability Funding Guide, Second Edition includes dedicated guidance for families navigating rare disease, complex medical needs, an evolving diagnosis, or no final diagnosis at all.
Families may be managing specialized care, therapies, adaptive equipment, accessibility needs, insurance gaps, travel, and other significant financial demands. The same financial advocacy process can help parents better understand what their child needs, explore possible funding sources, and take practical next steps.
Rare Disease & Complex Medical Needs is also a growing area of The Funding Project's National Children's Financial Advocacy Initiative, helping expand education, resources, partnerships, and support for families nationwide.
Disability + Community Partners
Disability organizations, healthcare professionals, therapy providers, schools, family support organizations, nonprofits, and community partners can help connect families with The Funding Project's Disability Funding Guide, Companion Workbook, Tammy's Proven 13-Step Process, and practical next-step guidance.
Partners can help expand access through resource sharing, family education, community distribution, and introductions to families who may benefit from these resources.
Connecting families with the right resources at the right time helps parents feel more prepared to navigate the financial challenges of raising a child with a disability.
Disability Resource Support
Donor, sponsor, corporate, healthcare, adaptive-equipment, accessibility, therapy, biopharma, foundation, and other aligned support can help expand printing, distribution, digital access, family education, outreach, and national awareness of The Funding Project's Disability resources.
Support helps turn these completed resources into greater access for families and helps The Funding Project continue developing, updating, and expanding resources as needs change.
Your support helps make it possible for more families to receive practical financial advocacy education and organized next steps toward funding what their child needs.
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The National Family Resource Awareness Campaign will help more families discover The Funding Project's resources while bringing together family prizes, product partners, sponsors, and national outreach.
The Sweepstakes is not open yet, but families can learn more and be among the first to know when it launches.
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