Connecting Joy

To be eligible for funding, applicants must be a children’s hospital, general hospital with dedicated pediatric department, or nonprofit organization serving children battling illness within geographic proximity to Dunkin’ locations. A focus of the program is to specifically provide the experience to teens.

Grant deadlines and announcement timelines will be updated on the website. Funding will be awarded upon executed gift agreement.

Organizations can apply for a variety of support including:

• Gaming Child Life Specialists
• Systems and connectivity
• Virtual programming that connects pediatric and teen patients with other patients their age

The grants are structured for single- or multi-year programming – not to exceed three years. Grant amounts vary but typically range from $25,000-$65,000 per year. Grants do not exceed $150,000.

Kindly, please do not reach out to inquire on status. Grant announcement timing will be available on the website.

Please note that this is a competitive grant process. We receive a lot of great applications and unfortunately, due to limited funding, we cannot fund them all. In some cases, an application does not align with our guidelines. We encourage you to carefully read our grant guidelines before investing time in completing an application.