Integrative Cancer Care Grants

The Scheidel Foundation offers Integrative Cancer Care Grants aimed at enhancing the quality of life for individuals living with cancer. This initiative supports organizations that promote awareness and adoption of integrative practices, targeting both the medical community and patients. The Foundation seeks proposals that foster long-term solutions and innovative programs, focusing on evidence-based information and practices. Grants are available through a selective process, emphasizing transformative impacts in the field.

NOTE: We take applications by invitation only. Please carefully review the eligibility criteria below, as well as  the Foundation's particular interest found below.
Integrative Cancer Care combines the best of western medicine and evidence-based complementary approaches and lifestyle practices to achieve optimal health and healing for individuals living with cancer. It enables individuals who live with cancer and their families to experience the potential for extended life with greater depth and quality.
This holistic approach
Puts the patient at the center, empowering the individual to be fully informed and active in his or her own health and healthcare options.Targets the tumor while optimizing the health of the person with cancer in mind, body, and spirit.Expands the tools and approaches available to include complementary therapies and lifestyle practices to enhance the effects of cancer treatments, reduce treatment side effects, improve quality of life, and, when possible, to extend life.
The Scheidel Foundation invests in the evolution of the field of integrative cancer care. We take applications by invitation only.
What We Fund
Increase awareness, understanding, and adoption of integrative cancer care practices among health practitioners and patients. These efforts may be aimed at the mainstream medical community or a broader audience of patients or practitioners.
Promote credible, evidence-based information and practices.
Expand the field to a large scale audience, typically with national or international reach.
This work can occur through single or multi-year grants and is not limited to organizations located in or impacting specific geographic area within the United States.
The Foundation is particularly interested in:

• Strategic grants that have a transformative and/or catalytic effect on the targeted issue or the organization’s capacity
• Seed money to begin new and innovative programs, with a detailed evaluation component to prove success to potential new funders
• Proposals that create long-term solutions
• Organizations and programs that cooperate with other community resources/agencies
• Proposals that leverage additional resources (through matched funding or government programs)

Eligibility

Funding areas are restricted to charitable organizations which qualify as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code or to public educational institutions. In very rare circumstances, the Foundation will make expenditure responsibility grants to international organizations with which it has direct contact

Ineligibility

What We Don’t Fund
Centers, programs and services that provide integrative cancer care services directly to patients.
Clinical research projects.The Foundation does not fund:IndividualsLegislative lobbyingActivities that directly or indirectly participate or intervene in political campaigns on behalf of any candidate for public officePromotion of specific religious doctrineOverhead rates above 10% for grants that go to or through universities, hospitals, or other large research institutions. Discretion will be applied for grants to other types of organizations to determine a reasonable overhead limit based on factors such as organizational budget, project, and general situation.