The Baby Alex
Foundation (www.babyalexfoundation.com) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization dedicated to supporting the neurological health of children.In pursuit of this goal, the Foundation
raises funds for grants to individuals and organizations engaged in pediatric
brain injury research, to include:
Brain injury
prevention
Brain
injury rehabilitation
Interventions
for cognitive, motor and other neurological impairments
Patient
family and medical staff education
Goals
To
support research into the causes, preventions and treatments of brain
hemorrhaging in infants.
To
support research into cognitive, occupational and physical therapy for
babies and children suffering from brain injuries.
To use
marketing and outreach to raise awareness of the prevention of premature
birth.
To
establish, through education and workshops, family centered care in
hospitals for infants and children suffering brain injuries.
To
serve as a public warehouse for research abstracts, book titles, lectures
and other sources of information useful to researchers, parents and
hospitals.
Grants
The Foundation's grant awards will be based on the ability of the proposed activity to accomplish the Foundation's mission of supporting pediatric neurological health.The number of grants and the fiscal amount of those grants will vary, depending on the funds raised by the Foundation each year. Entities interested in applying for a grant may download the grant application and narrative guidelines from the Foundation's website. All applications received by the March 1 deadline will be considered by the Foundation's Grant Review Committee for that year, and awarded based on the award criteria. Those criteria are described in the Grant Application section of the website. Grant applications may be submitted at any time prior to March 1.
