Funding

*Kids' Plates Funding Opportunity:*

To apply for Kids' Plates funding, please complete the attached request for application:

• Kids' Plates Child Safety Seats- Application Form
  

• Kids' Plates Bicycle and Multi-Sports Helmets- Application Form
  

• Kids' Plates Request for CPS Technician and/or Instructor Certification, Recertification, and/or Renewal Fees 
  

California Kids' Plates Grant Program

The California Kids' Plates Grant Program supports programs and efforts working to reduce or eliminate unintentional injuries in children and adolescents under the age of 18. The California Kids' Plates Grant Program provides local assistance grants to programs and efforts addressing one of the nine areas of injury: bike safety, drowning prevention, fall prevention, fire and burn prevention, pedestrian safety, poison prevention, motor vehicle occupant protection, sudden infant death syndrome/ safe sleeping habits, and unintentional firearm injury prevention. For more information, visit the California Kids’ Plates Grant Program.

The following is a list of additional funding sources for childhood injury prevention:

->California Funding
->National Funding

California Funding

• Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation
  The foundation's mission is to enhance the quality of life for burn survivors and to promote burn prevention and fire safety.
• Allstate Foundation
  The foundation supports museums and organizations involved with education, youth anti-violence, safety, domestic violence, financial and economic literacy, diversity, neighborhood development, insurance education, and economic education.
• Belvedere Community Foundation
  The foundation supports the community of Belvedere's unique environment, parks, and playgrounds.
• California Endowment
  The foundation supports access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities and promotes fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians.
• California Fire Safety Council
  Funds are available to assist with hazardous fuels treatments, community wildfire protection planning, and education addressing wildfire safety and hazard risk reduction within the wildland-urban interface (WUI).
• California Office of Traffic Safety Grants
  Supports program areas involving occupant protection, pedestrian safety, and bicycle safety.
• Chrysler Foundation
  Supports programs designed to address special concerns such as highway safety.
• Firedoll Foundation
  The foundation offers grants to nonprofits in the areas of environmental conservation, immigrant/human rights, community development, Mid-East peace, and offers support for Bay Area non-profits servicing victims of traumatic brain injury.
• Orange County Bike Helmet Mini-Grants
  Orange County’s Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention Program awards bicycle helmets to selected organizations in Orange County that, in turn, offer them at no cost to low-income families.

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National Funding

• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
  The foundation’s United States Program supports work in education, libraries, access to the internet, and emergency relief in the U.S. as well as community grants and local efforts in the Pacific Northwest.
• Boat U.S Foundation: Boating Safety Grants
  The foundation awards local volunteer organizations for the promotion of boating safety education.
• CDC Grant Funding Opportunity Announcements
  Provides a listing of CDC grant funding, including injury prevention opportunities.
• Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation: Quality of Life Grants
  Supports programs serving people with spinal chord injuries.
• FEMA Assistance to Firefighters Grant
  The primary goal of the Assistance to Firefighters Grants (AFG) is to meet the firefighting and emergency response needs of fire departments and non-affiliated emergency medical services organizations.
• Ford Motor Company
  Supports Motor Vehicle Safety and Child Passenger Safety Education.
• Grants.gov
  Provides a listing of available federal government grant opportunities.
• National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO): Injury Prevention Funding Opportunities
  NACCHO provides a listing of injury prevention funding opportunities.
• PacifiCorp Foundation
  Supports programs that best serve the community’s interests.
• Rural Assistance Center
  Provides a listing of funding opportunities for rural communities.

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