A Little Hope
/OVERVIEW: A Little Hope seeks to “provide bereavement support services and grief counseling for children, teens, and young adults who have experienced the loss of a parent, sibling, or a loved one, regardless of the circumstances of the death.”
IP TAKE: According to its website, A Little Hope’s success is “due to our expertise in children’s bereavement, strategic planning and our ability to build close relationships with many community based bereavement organizations.” This funder’s current work focuses on ““creating innovative initiatives in the childhood bereavement field” and has included art, storytelling, writing and imaginative play programs. New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida appear to be geographic priorities. This funder accepts brief grant inquiries via email at any time, but full proposals are accepted by invitation only. This is an approachable and responsive funder for organizations working with bereaved children and youth.
PROFILE: Established in 2002 as “a personal response to the World Trade Center tragedy,” A Little Hope was founded by Whitney and Evan Michaels. It seeks to “help provide bereavement support services and grief counseling for children, teens and young adults who have experienced the loss of a parent, sibling, or a loved one, regardless of the circumstances of the death.” This funder does not name geographic priorities, but grants appear to be clustered in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida.
Grants for Mental Health
A Little Hope’s grantmaking supports organizations that “utilize the peer support group model to facilitate children’s expression of painful and conflicted thoughts and feelings about the death of a loved one, without judgment.” Grants have supported programs that utilize storytelling, writing, imaginative play, art and music as means of therapy. Members of the the nonprofit’s Board of Directors and Board of Advisors have expertise in children’s bereavement and strategic planning and are responsible for selecting grant recipients.
This funder has provided ongoing support to Comfort Zone Camp, which provides in-person and virtual therapeutic camping experiences to bereaved children. Other grantees include Other grantees include the National Alliance for Grieving Children, the Shore Grief Center in North Carolina and the Billy Esposito Bereavement Center of New York City.
Since 2016, this funder has shifted its focus to “creating innovative initiatives in the childhood bereavement field.”
Important Grant Details
Grants range from about $10,000 to $60,000.
This funder tends to provide ongoing support to organizations working in its very specific areas of interest.
Grantmaking is concentrated in the organization’s home state of New York.
New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida appear to be other geographic priorities.
For information about past grantmaking, see the organization’s recent tax filings.
This funder accepts grant inquiries at any time via email. Email inquiries must contain the organization’s name, location, website and leadership. Full proposals are accepted by invitation only. Grant seekers should note that this is funder expects regular program assessment check-ins as well as interim and year-end reports from its grantees, and that its grantees generally adhere to the peer support group methodologies of bereavement support. General inquiries may also be emailed to the foundation staff at granting@alittlehope.org.
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