Community Resource Directory
Back to the results

WITH Foundation (was Special Hope Foundation

Information updated on Tuesday, November 21st 2023, 12:03
How to Contact the Provider
Contact email
[email protected]
Address
1900 S. Norfolk Street, Suite 350, San Mateo, CA, 94403
Phone
650-320-1715
County
San Mateo
Web
https://withfoundation.org/
Services
Disability Awareness and Advocacy
Financial Support
Research Institute or Funding

We believe that every human being has the right to be treated with dignity. Our current healthcare system provides inadequate consideration for the needs of adults with developmental disabilities, and to neglect this population is in sharp contrast to accepted medical and ethical standards. However, we are confident that this injustice is both definable and surmountable with the result that every adult with a developmental disability will have access to appropriate healthcare options.

The mission of WITH Foundation is to promote the establishment of comprehensive healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities that is designed to address their unique and fundamental needs.

WITH Foundation was created to provide financial support to organizations that promote comprehensive healthcare for adults with developmental disabilities. All grant applications should complement this mission and demonstrate how they will accomplish this overarching goal.

All applicants must have tax-exempt 501(c)(3) status as a nonprofit organization as defined by the Internal Revenue Service. Proposals must describe an explicit, identifiable need.

WITH Foundation is a national grantmaker. While applications from the San Francisco Bay Area may be given preferential consideration, applications from other areas in the United States are NOT excluded. WITH does not provide funding to organizations and programs based outside of the United States.

Established in 2002, WITH Foundation (formerly known as Special Hope Foundation) is a private foundation. The Foundation’s initial grantmaking benefited the disability community. In 2011, the Foundation began to focus its support on organizations and projects that promote the establishment of comprehensive and accessible health care for adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Currently, the Foundation gives out around $750,000 each year and has provided (in total) more than $7 million in funding support.

Programs that improve delivery of healthcare to adult consumers with developmental disabilities and include at least one of the following:

  • Improve health practitioner competency through education and/or training programs
  • Address the current inadequate reimbursement system
  • Advance innovations in formal care coordination
  • Enhance public awareness regarding the inadequacies of developmentally disabled care in order to advance systemic change
  • Increase understanding of supported decision-making in healthcare settings
  • National efforts in digital health that support designers and developers to include the perspectives/experiences of the IDD community within the design process, in order to create better technology for all
  • Social policy research
  • Identify and overcome barriers to high-quality healthcare access
  • General operating support is only considered for grantees that have previously utilized our project funding