Start with the Guide.
Understand where support may exist, how to research possible funding sources, how to prepare to ask for help, and what practical step to take next.
NICU Financial Advocacy Initiative
When NICU Care Ends, the Financial Crisis Begins.
Families may leave the NICU with questions about equipment, therapies, transportation, insurance limitations, specialized care, lost income, and everyday needs that can continue long after discharge.
The Funding Project helps parents understand where to begin, organize the needs ahead, explore possible sources of funding support, and take practical next steps with greater confidence. The NICU Funding Guide, Companion Workbook, Spanish-language resources, and our established 13-step financial advocacy process bring that guidance together in one place.
NICU resources designed to work together.
Families do not need one more pile of information. They need a clear place to begin and a way to organize what comes next.
NICU Funding GuideHelps parents understand funding possibilities and how to begin asking for help.
Companion WorkbookHelps families organize needs, research, priorities, and next steps through the 13-step financial advocacy process.
NICU Family Care PackBrings the resources together for hospital and community distribution directly to families.
Download the NICU resources
The Funding Guide gives families a place to begin. The 96-page Companion Workbook helps parents organize what they learn and put the financial advocacy process into action.
Put the information into action.
Organize needs, documents, funding research, requests, contacts, follow-ups, and next steps without having to create your own system from scratch.
Use the Guide and Workbook together, or return to either resource as new questions and needs arise.
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NICU Financial Advocacy en Español
Spanish-language resources are part of the same NICU Financial Advocacy Initiative, making the Guide and Companion Workbook easier for more families to use in the language they understand best.
Recursos en Español
Choose the Spanish Guide or Companion Workbook and use the same simple download process.
The 13-step financial advocacy process
The Funding Project's established process helps parents look at the whole financial picture, organize what matters most, explore funding possibilities, and move forward one step at a time.
01
Identify the need.
Start with what your child and family need now and what may be coming next.
02
Organize the details.
Bring the information together so research and funding requests are clearer.
03
Explore the possibilities.
Look beyond insurance to organizations, programs, charitable support, and other potential sources of help.
04
Keep moving forward.
Use the Guide and Workbook to continue through the full 13-step process as needs change.
NICU Family Care Packs
The NICU Family Care Pack is designed to help hospitals and community partners place meaningful financial advocacy resources directly into parents' hands.
Each Care Pack brings together the NICU Funding Guide, Companion Workbook, planning resources, and practical family support in one place.
NICU Funding GuideCompanion WorkbookPlanning resourcesPractical family support
A tangible way to help a family
Approximately $250 helps put a NICU Family Care Pack into a family's hands through participating hospitals and community partners.
For hospitals and community partners
NICU teams, healthcare professionals, family support organizations, nonprofits, and community partners can help connect families with financial advocacy education and practical resources when they need a clearer place to begin.
Help put these resources into more families' hands.
Donor and sponsor support helps expand NICU Family Care Packs, hospital distribution, family education, and access to The Funding Project's financial advocacy resources.
Be the first to know when the Sweepstakes launches.
The NICU Awareness Campaign will include its own family prize collection and a goal to help put NICU Family Care Packs into more families' hands.