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Children's Health and Welfare, Inactive Funding

The funding programs listed below are not currently accepting applications. Programs that are inactive may be offered again in the future.

Abandoned Infants Assistance: Comprehensive Support Services for Families Affected by Substance Abuse and/or HIV/AIDS
Grants to prevent the abandonment in hospitals of infants and young children, develop a program of comprehensive support services for these infants, and recruit and train health and social services personnel, foster care families and others.

Active Living Research/Healthy Eating Research Rapid-Response Grants
Funding to support research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical activity, promoting healthy eating and preventing obesity.

Active Living Research: Investigating Policies and Environments to Support Active Communities
Research and Publication grants for new investigators for analyses of policies and environmental approaches that impact children's physical activity and sedentary behaviors.

American Legion Foundation Child Welfare Grants
Grants to benefit the children of America.

Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act (CHIPPRA) Outreach and Enrollment Grants Cycle 1
Funds to enable States to maintain their current CHIP programs and increase enrollment in Medicaid and CHIP.

Children’s Justice Act (CJA) Partnerships for Indian Communities Grant Program
Grants to increase the capacity of tribal communities to address the needs of victims of child abuse and child sexual abuse, in a manner that lessens the trauma to the victims and increases culturally appropriate service provision.

Community Services Block Grant Training and Technical Assistance Program: Capacity Building
The proposed grant will fund up to 48 capacity-building collaborations that will build the capacity within the Community Services Network.

Community Services Block Grant Training and Technical Assistance Program: Capacity-Building for Ongoing CSBG Programs and Strategic Planning and Coordination Supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009
Funding for statewide capacity-building collaborations.

Cooperative Agreements for Linking Actions for Unmet Needs in Children’s Health (LAUNCH)
The purpose of Project LAUNCH is to promote the wellness of young children, birth to 8 years of age.

Faith-based Advocacy: Galvanizing Communities to End Childhood Obesity
Funding to support faith-based coalitions to advance community policies or environmental changes that improve access to healthy foods and/or opportunities for physical activity.

Family Connection Discretionary Grants
Funding to help children who are in or are at-risk of entering into foster care reconnect with family members.

Family Preservation - Improving the Well-Being of Children Project Planning
Promotes planning culturally competent strategies for strengthening families, fostering child well-being, healthy relationships and marriages and responsible fatherhood to preserve healthy families within the Native American and Pacific Basin Communities.

Family Preservation-Improving the Well-Being of Children Project Implementation
Funding for projects that implement approaches to improve child well-being by removing barriers associated with strengthening families.

Family Professional Partnerships/CSHCN-Family Opportunity Act
Grants will fund state-wide, family-run centers providing information, education, technical assistance and peer support to families of Children with Special Health Care Needs.

Grants to Help Children With Disabilities and the Uninsured
Focuses primarily on supporting charitable organizations that are making a difference in the lives of children with disabilities.

Great American Bake Sale Grant
Grants program that helps ensure that low-income children receive nutritious food during critical times when they are out of school and particularly vulnerable to hunger.

Great American Dine Out Grants Program
Grants to organizations seeking to increase access to public and private initiatives that provide food to children and their families.

Healthy Kids, Healthy Communities
This funding program places special emphasis on reaching children who are at highest risk for obesity on the basis of race/ethnicity, income and/or geographic location.

Healthy Start Eliminating Disparities in Perinatal Health (Border and Alaska)
The purpose of this program is to address significant disparities in perinatal health including disparities experienced by Hispanics, American Indians, African-Americans, Asian/Pacific Islanders, and immigrant populations.

Healthy Start Initiative-Eliminating Racial/Ethnic Disparities
Under this program, grants will be awarded to address significant disparities in perinatal health indicators.

Homeless Education Disaster Assistance Program
Grants to local educational agencies (LEAs) or consortia of LEAs located within the same State whose enrollment of homeless students has increased as a result of a natural disaster that occurred in calendar year 2008.

Mattel Foundation Domestic Grants Program
Grants to charitable organizations to help children in need by funding new and existing programs.

Ms. Foundation Unified Request for Proposals
Funding for grassroots efforts to address gender violence and to create a violence-free society.

Projects of National Significance: Family Support 360 Special Initiatives
Grants to plan and implement Family Support 360 Centers for persons with developmental disabilities.

Safe Havens: Supervised Visitation and Safe Exchange Grant Program
Funding for communities to support the supervised visitation and safe exchange of children in situations involving domestic violence, dating violence, child abuse, sexual assault, or stalking.

Special Improvement Project (SIP) -- Improving Child Support Enforcement (CSE) and Court Collaboration
Funding which addresses the priority area of improving Child Support Enforcement and court collaboration.

Special Improvement Project (SIP) -- Using New Methods to Improve Collection Rates
Funding which addresses using new technology and enforcement tools to increase child support collections.

Targeted Grants to Reduce Childhood Lead Poisoning
Grants to conduct activities to reduce incidences of childhood lead poisoning in vulnerable populations.

Training and Technical Assistance for Children’s Justice Act (CJA) Partnerships for Indian Communities Grant Program
Funding to provide hands-on training and technical assistance that is culturally relevant to American Indian and Alaska Native grantees who have received funding through the FY09 CJA Partnerships for Indian Communities Discretionary Grant Program.

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