Find Nonprofit and Small Business Grants

To be considered, applicants must:
-Be a non-profit organization, school, daycare, or city park.
-Provide services for children ages 18 and younger.
-Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to sun-safety/skin cancer awareness by teaching sun-safety in the classrooms, practicing healthy sun habits while outside, and making a commitment to educating the youth on the dangers of UV rays and skin cancer prevention. This awareness program can utilize the AAD’s Good Skin Knowledge Lesson Plans (available here: https://www.aad.org/lesson-plans), the Good Skin Knowledge curriculum (available in the Supporting Documents field below), materials developed from other organizations, or original content developed specifically for your target audience.
-Sun-safety/skin cancer awareness program must be in place for at least one year prior to grant application.
-Be considering a shade structure that meets the stringent shade requirements of the AAD (for shade structure criteria, see the grant guidelines book, available in the Supporting Documents field below).
-Previous AAD Shade Structure Program recipients are not eligible to apply for additional grants.
-Applications for retroactive funds for a shade structure that already has been installed are not accepted.
-Ineligible shade structures are slat-roof structures, slat-roof/trellis gazebos, trellis roofs designed for future plant coverage, shade trees, and small cap-roof structures for pieces of playground equipment.

The application will be available from October 1 - December 31.
Awards are made in March.
Shade structure installations must be completed by November 30.

-Permits are sometimes required for shade builds and can take up to 30 days to obtain. The AAD does not require to have permits on file, but suggests securing permits as early as possible, if needed, in order to meet the deadline.

-Applicants must submit a letter of recommendation with the online application from an AAD member dermatologist. Locate an AAD member dermatologist by using the Find a Dermatologist tool: https://find-a-derm.aad.org/

-For reference, $8000 will cover most shade sails of 10’ X10’, however many shade projects require additional resources. Therefore, please make sure you will have the additional funding necessary for your project to be installed by calendar year end.

-For FAQs, click here: https://www.aad.org/shade-structure-grants/shade-structure-grant-faqs