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Additional Funding Sources for Assistive Technology
Compiled by Debbie Budash
This is a quick reference list of funding sources used by professionals to purchase equipment and services.
The most common sources for AT funding are public agencies. They include:
- ALS Foundation
- Christina Foundation
- Medicaid/Medicare
- Office of Vocational Rehabilitation (OVR)
- Mental Health/Mental Retardation (MH/MR)
- United Cerebral Palsy Association (Bellows Fellow Grant)
- Association of Retarded Citizens (ARC)
- School districts
- RESAs
- SSI/SSDI work incentives
Private Agencies, Foundations, and Commercial Insurance include:
- Travelers
- Metropolitan Life
- Prudential Insurance
- Equitable Life
- Mutual of Omaha
- State Farm
- Blue Cross/Blue Shield
- Aetna
- Champus
Resources within the community can be sought and mini-grant proposals can be written and submitted to businesses and civic groups. They include:
- Business and professional women's associations
- Exchange Club
- Kiwanis
- Elks
- Lions
- Church groups
- "A Dream Come True"
- "Make-A-Wish"
- Masons/Shriners
- Knights of Columbus
- Quota Club
- Seratoma
- Junior Women's League
- Telephone Pioneers
- Moose Lodges
- Fraternal Orders of Police
- Sunshine Foundation
Potential contributors include:
- Private individuals
- Businesses
- Sport organizations
- Athletes
- Parental purchase of device for classroom use
- PTOs/PTAs
The following list provides some examples of alternate funding sources. They include:
- Fund raising events
- Service clubs within school systems
- Call or e-mail individual companies for donations
- Garage sales/flea markets
Coordinating efforts with technical classes in high schools, community colleges, clubs and universities which require specific projects (i.e., senior projects required in mechanical engineering course, boy scout projects, etc.)
Once activities and technology needs have been identified, consider people who have specific skills in carpentry, electronics, mechanical engineering, computers, and general "fix-it" skills to help with design and construction of adaptations.
Lending Libraries include:
- West Virginia Assistive Technology System (WVATS) - 800-841-8436
- T.R.A.I.L.S. (Traveling Resource and Information Library Services) - 888-595-8290
- Early Childhood Resource Lending Library (ECRLL) - 800-642-8522
- Vendor loan programs
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