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Each year, local March of Dimes chapters award grants to external organizations across the state in order to address unmet maternal and infant health needs. These community grants are one way that the March of Dimes pursues its mission of saving babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality.		  
About the Chapter Community Grants Program

All grant proposals must address the March of Dimes mission of improving the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth and infant mortality.  Priority will be given to projects that meet one or more of the following criteria:  a) help reduce disparities in premature birth;  b) are evidence-based;  c) include measurable outcomes.  Projects may focus on consumers and/or health care providers.  The March of Dimes does not fund billable health care provider services.

Grant Priority areas include:

  Providing or enhancing risk reduction education and/or services.  Risk reduction projects include, but are not limited to:  Providing smoking cessation education and/or servies. Preference should be given to prenatal health education and information/referral services that utilize the "5 A's" counseling approach.  For more information, go to www.acog.org/from_home/departmets/smoking/smokingslides.ppt.  Increasing health education and information/referral services available to pregnant women who use alcohol or other drugs.

  Implementing disparity-related community programs that aim to decrease racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes.  This may include March of Dimes programs like Stork's Nest®, Project Alpha and Becoming a Mom/Comenzando bien®. 

  Increasing pregnant women's participation in state or local maternal child health programs (e.g. Medicaid, SCHIP, WIC) through enhanced outreach, education and public awareness.

In order to be eligible to receive a March of Dimes chapter grant, an organization must be an incorporated not-for-profit 501(c)(3) or for profit organization or government agency. The March of Dimes does not award grants to individuals.

For information on our community grants program, please call or email Marianne Keuhn at 952-835-3033 ext. 304 or mkeuhn@marchofdimes.com