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Quality of Life Grant Program - Priority Impact (Tier 4: Employment) is sponsored by Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. This grant program focuses on improving the quality of life for individuals living with paralysis. Tier 4 grants specifically target employment initiatives, supporting projects that address the needs of people living with paralysis and their families.
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Priority Impact - Full Grants Program Details - Get Support Click here to join Eric LeGrand at the 2026 A Walk to Believe The Priority Impact Grant Tiers (Tiers 2, 3, & 4) offer three increasing levels of grant funding. Priority Impact grants fund priority issues for individuals living with paralysis.
Grantee organizations will demonstrate capacity to implement the grant without intensive technical assistance and capacity building, as well as demonstrate capacity for program development, evaluation and sustainability. Tier 2 — Grants of up to $30,000 for the following Priority areas. Tier 3 — Grants of up to $40,000.
Rural Low-Income and Unserved Populations Tier 4 — Grants of up to $50,000. Tier 2 – Grants must be completed within 12 months Assistive Technology – Assistive Technology grants are a new priority area that differs from the previous High Impact Innovative Assistive Technology (HIIAT) grants program (2015-2020) and the Direct Effect assistive technology project type grants.
This new tier is open to all organizations with the continued emphasis on increasing the independence of people living with paralysis, to assist them to participate fully in the communities of which they are a part, and enhance their social, employment, education or finance-related quality of life through the use of assistive technology.
Disaster Preparedness – Grant funds support nonprofit organizations and programs that address the needs of emergency preparedness and the needs of people with paralysis in a natural disaster environment. Respite/Caregiving – This grant area recognizes family caregivers and the vital role they play in caring for those with paralysis.
Funds support nonprofits that offer exemplary and innovative respite care services that are evidence-based, appear promising, or are trying new service models.
Forms of respite supported through this grant area are: Sitter-Companion Services Consumer-Directed Respite Family Care Homes or Host Family Adult Day Healthcare Centers Parent/Family Cooperative Grant funds cannot be used to support respite in the following environments: Corporate Foster Home Settings for Children and Teens Tier 3 – Grants must be completed within 18 months Rural Low-Income and Unserved Populations – The aim of this grants program is to fund projects that explicitly benefit people living with paralysis in under-resourced and under- supported rural communities.
Projects will focus on promoting accessibility and participation in rural communities through foci such as: Providing access to safe and affordable transportation options Providing accessible driver’s education/training programs Assistive Technology and Durable Medical Equipment Short-term AT Equipment Loan Programs Peer and Family Support Groups Rural Community Health Centers or Veterans Hospitals Agriculture and access to healthy foods Tier 4 – Grants must be completed within 24 months Employment – The Employment – Priority Impact grants are one of Reeve’s top priorities because employment is fundamental in achieving and maintaining independence, while being one of the most challenging obstacles to individuals living with paralysis.
In addition, gainful employment allows people living with paralysis to achieve enhanced financial security, higher quality of life, and improved community connections.
Grant funds support programs and projects that: Assist individuals living with paralysis to enter, re-enter, remain, and advance in the workplace; Create career pathways to meaningful, living wage jobs; and Provide job development services to people living with paralysis, including career education, adaptive technology and career training with the goal of finding gainful employment.
Grants funds may not provide stipends and funds may not be given directly to workers or program participants as salaries or other incentives. Nursing Home Transition – Funds support Centers for Independent Living (CILs) and other organizations that provide transition services across the country to transition people with paralysis living in nursing home back into their homes or a community-based setting of their choice.
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Quality of Life Grant Program - Priority Impact (Tier 4: Employment) is funded by Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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