Community Engagement Grant

The Community Engagement Grant, offered by the First Responders Children's Foundation, aims to strengthen relationships between first responders and youth in their communities. By funding programs that promote mental health, youth education, family support, and emergency assistance, the grant helps foster trust and understanding. This initiative not only benefits first responders and their families but also inspires future generations to consider careers in public service.

First Responder Community Engagement Grant
The goal of these powerful programs is to help foster healthy relationships between first responders and children in the communities they serve, while also inspiring a new generation who may have an interest in a first responder career.
Mental and Behavioral Health
Grants for first responder agencies and non-profits that support mental and behavioral health activities, initiatives, and programs for first responders and their families.
Youth Education Activities and Programs
Grants for first responder agencies and non-profits for activities, initiatives, and programs that pair youth with local first responders through arts, sports, education, or community service.
First Responder Family Support
Grants for first responder agencies and non-profits for programs that support, honor, and elevate the profile of first responder families in need.
Emergency Support
Grants for first responder agencies and non-profits for financial aid, food, equipment, and other necessary support during a crisis.
Grants for first responder agencies and non-profits that create programs for a safer Community and help to foster first responder/community relationships.

Eligibility

A first responder agency, or department within.A public entity or other charitable, educational, or cultural organization determined as charitable under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and has partnered with a first responder agency or department.An entity that provides programs and services to benefit children and facilitates interaction between the children and a first responder agency.