Bringing a baby home from the NICU can begin an entirely new financial journey. Parents may be facing medical expenses, reduced income, travel costs, therapies, equipment, specialized care, and everyday family needs, while also trying to understand where financial help may exist and how to begin asking for it.
The Funding Project’s NICU Financial Advocacy Initiative gives families a clear place to begin. Our NICU Funding Guide, Companion Workbook, Tammy’s Proven 13-Step Process, and personalized guidance help parents explore possible funding sources, organize what they need, prepare stronger requests, and take practical next steps.
You Don't Have To Figure This Out Alone.
Families leaving the NICU are often handed an overwhelming amount of information, but very little of it explains how to navigate the financial side of what comes next.
The Funding Project's NICU Funding Guide and Companion Workbook were created to give parents a clearer place to begin. Together, they help families understand possible funding opportunities, organize their child's needs, prepare stronger requests, keep track of important information, and move through Tammy's Proven 13-Step Process one step at a time.
These resources are designed to be used together, but families can return to either one whenever new expenses, services, equipment needs, therapies, or other financial questions arise.
The NICU Funding Guide helps parents understand where financial help may exist and how to begin looking for it.
It walks families through possible funding sources, financial advocacy strategies, how to prepare to ask for help, what information may be needed, and how to approach the process in a more organized and informed way.
The goal is not simply to give families a list of programs. It is to help parents understand how to identify the right opportunities for their child and how to take the next step.
The Companion Workbook helps parents turn the information in the Guide into action.
Families can use it to organize their child's needs, documents, costs, funding research, contacts, applications, follow-ups, priorities, and next steps in one place.
It follows Tammy's Proven 13-Step Process so parents do not have to create their own system while already managing the demands of caring for their child.
The Workbook is designed to be returned to again and again as needs change and new funding questions arise.
Use the Guide to understand the process. Use the Workbook to organize it and put it into action.
The NICU Family Care Pack brings The Funding Project's NICU resources together in one place so parents have practical financial advocacy support they can return to as questions, expenses, and needs continue after the NICU.
Each Care Pack includes the NICU Funding Guide, Companion Workbook, planning resources, digital access, and practical family support. Care Packs are designed for distribution through participating hospitals and community partners so families can leave with more than medical instructions, they can also have a clearer place to begin navigating the financial side of what comes next.
Support helps place NICU Family Care Packs directly into parents' hands through participating hospitals and community partners.
Families should be able to understand financial advocacy resources in the language they are most comfortable using.
The Funding Project is expanding our NICU Family Resource Library with Spanish-language versions of the NICU Funding Guide and Companion Workbook to help parents understand possible funding options, organize their child's needs, prepare stronger requests, and take practical next steps.
Our goal is to make The Funding Project's NICU financial advocacy resources more accessible to Spanish-speaking families across the country.
If reading a guide or workbook feels difficult, families will still be able to reach out for help understanding where to begin, how to use the resources, and what practical next steps may make sense for their family.
Si prefiere hablar en español o necesita ayuda para entender por dónde comenzar, comuníquese con The Funding Project.
These Spanish-language resources are also being developed for hospitals, NICU teams, health systems, patient advocacy organizations, nonprofits, and community partners working to better serve Spanish-speaking families.
Making financial advocacy information more accessible means helping more families know where to begin, what questions to ask, and what steps they can take next.
NICU Funding Guide — Coming Soon
Companion Workbook — Coming Soon
Tammy’s Proven 13-Step Process gives parents a clear way to organize the financial advocacy process from beginning to end.
It helps families identify what their child needs, gather important information, research possible funding sources, prepare stronger requests, follow up, and keep moving forward when one option does not work.
The process is designed to make a complicated financial journey feel more manageable, one practical step at a time.
Explore Tammy’s Proven 13-Step ProcessHospitals, NICU teams, healthcare professionals, family support organizations, nonprofits, and community partners can help connect families with practical financial advocacy resources during and after the NICU journey.
The Funding Project provides resources that can be shared directly with parents, including the NICU Funding Guide, Companion Workbook, upcoming Spanish-language resources, Tammy's Proven 13-Step Process, and NICU Family Care Packs.
By connecting families with financial advocacy education and practical next-step resources, partners can help parents feel more prepared to navigate the financial challenges that may continue after the NICU.
Donor and sponsor support helps The Funding Project expand access to NICU financial advocacy resources, provide NICU Family Care Packs, and place practical support directly into the hands of more families through hospitals and community partners.
Support also helps us continue developing and updating resources so families have guidance to return to as new financial questions and needs arise.
Your support helps make it possible for more parents to receive practical financial advocacy education and organized next steps.
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.
