FISA Foundation invites Letters of Inquiry for programs and services that advance the rights and address the needs of people with disabilities in Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Donor Name: FISA Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
Counties: Allegheny(PA), Armstrong(PA), Beaver(PA), Butler(PA), Fayette(PA), Greene(PA), Indiana(PA), Lawrence(PA), Washington(PA), Westmoreland (PA)
City: Pittsburgh
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline (mm/dd/yyyy): 02/01/2022
Size of the Grant: $25,000
Details:
As a Foundation committed to equity, justice, safety, and inclusion for people with disabilities, with an intentional focus on addressing structural racism, FISA Foundation has issued an open call for Letters of Inquiry for the following priority areas:
- Improving access to healthcare and dental care for people with disabilities. Proposals addressing the needs of people of color with disabilities and/or those who have complex disabilities are of particular interest.
- Addressing bias among healthcare professionals.
- Addressing or preventing abuse and violence against people with disabilities.
- Supporting people with disabilities in pursuit of safety, healing, and justice after domestic or sexual violence.
- Promoting equal rights, access, and full inclusion for people with disabilities, particularly Black people and other people of color with disabilities, in all aspects of life.
- Initiatives led by people with disabilities and/or designed to empower people with disabilities to participate in effective advocacy and change-making.
- Intersectional advocacy and movement-building to cultivate cross-disability collaboration and to integrate disability issues into broader justice-seeking work.
- Efforts by disability organizations to address racism to better reach and serve people of color with disabilities.
Types of Funding
Organizations may request funding for:
- General operating support for programs or services that advance the above-mentioned priorities
- Ongoing programs or projects
- Capacity building initiatives, including technology
- Advocacy
- Organizational efforts to become more welcoming, inclusive, and equitable in serving people with disabilities.
- New and innovative projects or programs
Unfortunately, due to other pressing needs, FISA would be unlikely to consider projects to help arts and culture organizations be more welcoming and inclusive of people with disabilities in this funding opportunity.
Funding Information
Total funding available for the fall funding cycle is approximately $250,000, and they expect the average grant size to be under $25,000.
Eligibility Criteria
Grants will be made to 501(c)(3) organizations, or projects with a nonprofit fiscal sponsor, for services provided in the ten-county region of Southwestern PA.
SPC’s ten-county region includes the City of Pittsburgh and the counties of Allegheny, Armstrong, Beaver, Butler, Fayette, Greene, Indiana, Lawrence, Washington and Westmoreland.
Definitional note: FISA Foundation focuses its disability-related grantmaking on adults and children with physical, intellectual, sensory, and developmental disabilities. While they recognize that mental health intersects with many of their other priorities, the primary diagnosis of mental illness is outside their scope. FISA does fund cross-disability efforts that include mental health.
For more information, visit FISA Foundation Grant.
