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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.  For a list of 2009 March of Dimes Tennessee National and Local Grant recipients CLICK HERE

The 2010 grant application process is now closed.  Information regarding the 2011 chapter community grants program will be posted in the Summer of 2010.  For other questions about grants, please email Tamara Currin or call 615-399-3200.

  
About the Chapter Community Grants Program
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. Proposals will be accepted from organizations with the capacity, competence and experience to accomplish project goals and objectives through one of the following strategies:

  Increasing access to and quality of health care for women and infants
  Increasing availability of prevention services
  Increasing availability of genetics services and folic acid education

Projects interventions may be provider and/or consumer focused. Interventions must be provided within the local chapter's specified geographic area.

TENNESSEE CHAPTER COMMUNITY GRANTS PROGRAM 2010-2011

ELIGIBILITY
In order to be eligible to receive a March of Dimes chapter grant, an organization must be an incorporated not-for-profit (501c3) or for profit organization or government agency. The March of Dimes does not award grants to individuals. Applicants must disclose any conflict of interest due to representation by their organization on the chapter’s Program Services Committee or the Chapter or Division Boards.  The applicant must provide services in Tennessee, Virginia (Bristol ONLY), or Arkansas (Crittenden County ONLY).