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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
Providing or enhancing preconception health awareness, education and/or services with a specific focus on folic acid and/or achieving a healthy weight before pregancy.The chapter community grants program is designed to invest in priority projects that further the March of Dimes mission, support national and state objectives, and further our strategic goal of reducing disparities in birth outcomes. 2010 proposals will be accepted from organizations with the capacity, competence and experience to accomplish project goals and objectives through one of the following strategies:

Providing or enhancing preconception health awareness, education and/or services with a specific focus on folic acid and/or achieving a healthy weight before pregancy.
  Providing or enhancing risk reducton education and/or services. Risk reduction projects are limited to:
     - Providing smoking cessation education and/or services. Preference will be given to prenatal health education and information/referral services that utilize the "5 A's" counseling approach.
     - Increasing health education and information/referral services available to pregnant women who use alcohol or other drugs.
     - Enhancing care through the CenteringPregnancy®  model of group prenatal care. For more information, visit http://www.centeringhealthcare.org/
  Organizing community discussions and/or focus groups that aim to address racial and ethnic disparities in birth outcomes.

 

Projects interventions may be provider and/or consumer focused. Interventions must be provided within the Ohio or Boone, Kenton, and/or Campbell counties in Kentucky.

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 more information about the chapter community grant program and how to apply, contact your local March of Dimes chapter office.

 

2009 Chapter Program Service Grants
Grants are available through a competetive application process.  Click here for more information.  You can also contact Becky Johnson-Rescola, State Director of Program Services at bjohnson-rescola@marchofdimes.com or 216-643-3330/800-686-2323.