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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
 

Since 2000, the March of Dimes Vermont Chapter has provided $320,000 in Chapter Community Grants to directly provide support and education to pregnant women across the state.

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.

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.

See Chapter Community Grants Index below for a listing of currently funded projects in our state.

Vermont 2009  Local Community Grants

Grantee

Goal

Springfield Parent Child Center

To provide services to pregnant and parenting teens and young women in order to increase access to health care and prevent premature birth. 

Claire M. Lintilhac Nurse-Midwife Service, Burlington

To support training of health care professionals and to implement Centering Pregnancy -a evidence based prenatal program that improves the health outcomes of mothers and babies.

Four Seasons Midwifery / Brattleboro Memorial Hospital

To support implementation of Centering Pregnancy -a evidence based prenatal program that improves the health outcomes of mothers and babies.

American Academy of Pediatrics and Vermont Child Health Improvement Program

To design, print, and distribute a resource book for providers of prenatal care to improve the screening and assessment of substance abuse in pregnancy and referral to community resources.

Rutland Regional Medical Center

To coordinate obstetric and prenatal care with substance abuse treatment and social services to promote recovery in women who have opiate dependencies and addictions inorder to improve the health of babies by reducing the potential for premature birth.

The chapter community grants fund for 2010 is approximately $25,000.  It is anticipated that 4-5 projects will be funded, with awards ranging from $4,000 to $7,500 each.  Chapter community grants are approved for one year. Applications will be available in June 2009.

To obtain an application, contact:
Michelle Wallace,
Director of Program Services
March of Dimes Vermont State Chapter
107 N. Main St. 3rd Floor
Barre, VT 05641
Phone: 802-479-3265 x11
Fax: 802-479-0957
Email: mwallace@marchofdimes.com