Craig H. Neilsen Foundation: Creating Opportunity & Independence Community Support Grants Program
Deadline: Letter of Intent due January 27, 2025
Category: Spinal Cord Injury,
Sharing the vision of its founder, the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation is committed to a world where individuals with spinal cord injuries (SCI), and those who care for them, live full and productive lives as active participants in their communities.
The foundation invites LOIs for its Creating Opportunity & Independence Community Support Grants program, which supports nonprofit partners that provide programs and services to empower people with SCI to achieve independent, fulfilling lives.
Community Support Grants are intended to help organizations improve the lives of people with SCI in the following areas:
Community Activities: Initiatives that provide group or individual activities that enhance physical, emotional, or social wellbeing, where people with SCI are actively engaged and interact with peers.
Life Transitions: Organizations supporting individuals with SCI in finding practical solutions after injury, helping them navigate through transitions, and promoting successful integration into homes, workplaces, and communities.
Accessibility For All: Projects that remove barriers—physical, technological, or systemic—that prevent people with SCI from fully participating in society.
Funding can be requested for one or two years and the budget for any year cannot exceed $125,000. Only total budgets between $25,000 and $200,000 will be considered.
Letters of intent are due January 27, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET. Upon review, selected applicants will be invited to submit a full grant application, due April 21, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. ET.
To be eligible, applicants must be a nonprofit organization located in the United States or Canada.