Community Impact Program
Family Essentials & Emergency Support
Helping local families through difficult moments with practical, short-term assistance when significant hardship affects a child.
Small support can make a meaningful difference.
A child's illness, a house fire, sudden financial hardship, displacement, or another unexpected family crisis can quickly create urgent needs. This program is designed to help families address essential short-term needs while they work toward stability.
Food & Household Essentials
Support may help with groceries, hygiene products, diapers, basic household necessities, and other immediate essentials.
Transportation
Assistance may help with gas, parking, transportation services, or necessary travel connected to a child's care or essential needs.
Temporary Lodging
Short-term lodging assistance may be considered when a family is displaced by an emergency or must remain away from home because of a child's treatment or other serious circumstance.
Focused on children. Responsive to real family hardship.
Pediatric illness and hospitalization are important priorities, but assistance is not limited to medical situations. The Foundation may consider significant circumstances that affect a child's immediate well-being and a family's ability to meet essential needs.
Medical Hardship
Families navigating pediatric illness, hospitalization, treatment, travel, or related short-term burdens may request assistance.
Emergency & Displacement
House fires, sudden displacement, and other serious emergencies can create immediate needs for food, lodging, transportation, and essentials.
Unexpected Family Crisis
Sudden loss of income, transportation barriers, or another significant hardship affecting a child may be considered based on need and available funding.
A compassionate, accountable process.
Families may contact the Foundation directly or be referred by a trusted community partner. We aim to keep the process straightforward, collect only information reasonably needed to review the request, and protect family privacy.
Request or Referral
A family or trusted community partner contacts the Foundation about a significant hardship involving a child.
Review & Verify
The Foundation reviews the request and may obtain reasonable documentation or partner confirmation needed to understand the situation.
Approve Support
Approved assistance is matched to an essential need based on the circumstances, program guidelines, and available funding.
Provide Assistance
Whenever practical, support is provided through direct vendor payments, approved gift cards, purchased goods or services, or qualified partner organizations rather than unrestricted cash.
Working with people who already know the family.
Trusted local partners can help identify families facing genuine hardship and connect them with the Foundation while allowing us to keep the program responsive and accountable.
Schools & Community Partners
Schools, counselors, established nonprofits, churches, and community organizations may refer families experiencing significant need.
Hospitals & Social Workers
Medical and social-service professionals may help connect families facing pediatric treatment, travel, lodging, or other immediate burdens.
Emergency Referrals
Fire departments and other trusted organizations may help identify families affected by fires, displacement, or other serious emergencies.
Build a $25,000 Family Support Fund.
Our initial goal is to establish a $25,000 fund that can respond to essential family needs as they arise. Because every family's circumstances are different, assistance amounts will vary and all support is subject to program approval and available funding.
Contribute to the Family Support Fund
| Ways Your Support Can Help | Examples |
|---|---|
| Immediate Essentials | Groceries, hygiene products, diapers, and other necessary household items. |
| Transportation Support | Gas, parking, transportation services, or necessary travel related to a child's needs. |
| Temporary Lodging | Short-term lodging during displacement, pediatric treatment, or another approved emergency. |
| Emergency Child & Family Needs | Other essential goods or services approved when they can meaningfully help stabilize a family. |
Help families with dignity.
The Foundation intends to track assistance provided, program funds used, types of needs supported, referral partnerships, and overall community impact while protecting the privacy of families receiving help. Families will not be publicly identified without appropriate permission.
Help a family get through the moment.
Families, schools, hospitals, social workers, emergency responders, nonprofits, churches, businesses, donors, and other community partners are invited to contact The Susan Ann Foundation about assistance, referrals, partnerships, or support for the Family Essentials & Emergency Support Program.