Alaska Chapter Grant Program
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The Alaska Chapter Community Grants Program is designed to invest in projects that support access to and quality of health care for women and infants, services related to prematurity and availability of prevention services.
Each year the Alaska Chapter of the March of Dimes gives community grants designed to invest in projects supporting maternal and child health in Alaskan communities. Awards range from $600 to $10,000 each and vary from year to year.
Examples of Community Grants given in the last several years include:
- The Alaska Folic Acid Coalition a statewide program funding the publication and distribution of Alaska-specific folic acid posters and brochures distributed to health care providers and clinics in rural Alaska
- The Municipality of Anchorage for a multi-faceted folic acid campaign
- Resource Center for Parents & Children WIC Program in Fairbanks for a project to increase participation in women’s health care & WIC programs
- Anchorage Neighborhood Health Center for multi-lingual materials and interpreters for childbirth classes and prenatal education
- City and Borough of Juneau School District for “Think Twice” program to advocate teen pregnancy prevention, prenatal education and parenting classes
- The Kodiak Area Native Association for educational supplies for the KANA’s Prenatal Support Specialist
- Central Peninsula General Hospital to fund continuing education for nurses in the obstetric unit
- Wrangell Medical Center to aid in the establishment of an ongoing Childbirth Education Program for Wrangell and outlying areas
- North Slope Borough Public Health Nursing Program in Barrow to promote awareness of local public health issues including substance abuse, prenatal care, breast-feeding, nutrition, childhood immunizations, and second hand cigarette smoke effects
- Ketchikan General Hospital for the development of a program to provide educational opportunities in the prenatal phase of pregnancy to patients that live and work on remote islands
- Alaska Public Health Association in collaboration with the Alaska Women Infants and Children (WIC) Program, WIC coordinators from across Alaska will be trained in state-of-the-art Motivational Interviewing techniques to motivate smoking cessation in pregnant and post-partum women.
- Delta Sigma Theta to support the Pregnancy Workshop Project in conjunction with Providence Family Practice Center in which they will offer prenatal education classes and a Baby Boutique as an incentive to practice good prenatal care.
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Donating is easy online, by phone or mail / fax.
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