Virginia Department of Health

Updated: 21-Feb-2008

Division of Injury and Violence Prevention Home

DIVP Funding & Safety Device Distribution Opportunities

The Child Safety Seat Distribution and Education Program promotes, purchases and distributes child safety seats to families who could otherwise not afford them. Child safety seats are purchased using a collection of funds from the fines from child safety seat traffic infractions. Approximately 47,500 safety seats have been distributed since 1996 at over 120 distribution sites statewide. Ongoing regular training, assistance and refresher courses are provided to staff to enable them to educate safety seat recipients about correct installation and use of child safety seats. Click here to learn more about the qualifications of getting a free safety seat.

The Get Alarmed, Virginia! program is funded by a state-secured federal grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Since its implementation, the Get Alarmed, Virginia! program has been credited with saving the lives of more than 66 men, women and children across the Commonwealth of Virginia and with preventing millions of dollars in property loss. The program provides: smoke detectors, funding to purchase equipment for installing alarms (ladders, drills, etc.), educational materials (brochures, posters, videos), program promotion materials (t-shirts, signs/banners, media packets). Click here to learn more about Get Alarmed, Virginia! and how your community can participate.

Other Funding Opportunities

The Channing Bete Company is pleased to announce the availability of four new web-based tools to help customers find and secure funding for educational materials and programs. Accessible from the Current Funding Opportunities page (http://www.channing-bete.com/fundinginformation/).
(look in the top right-hand corner for the links), the new tools have been designed to support this already-popular funding-related service:

Templates: This section offers “fill-in-the-blank” style templates (formatted as Microsoft Word documents) for Letters of Inquiry, Proposal Cover Letters, and Proposals. Templates can be used “as is” or modified to reflect the individual writing style of the person creating the document. Sample templates are available for each of Channing Bete’s Positive Youth Development programs. Background information about the Channing Bete Company is also provided in this section to assist those looking to fund the purchase of core products.

Resources: An extensive list of Web resources about grant writing, government funding, and foundation and corporate grants.

Glossary: A collection of Web sites offering definitions of key funding terminology.

Funding Tips & Techniques: Basic and advanced information to improve the quality of any funding application package. New tips and techniques will be added to this section periodically.

Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is THE single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services is proud to be the managing partner for Grants.gov, an initiative that will have an unparalleled impact on the grant community.
http://www.grants.gov