Autism therapies can be very expensive and it can be hard to find the money to pay for them. So how do you pay for the autism therapies that your child needs?
Here are ten creative ways to make the money you need:
1. Start your own home based business. It doesn’t need to be expensive and time consuming. There are ways to do it and have fun and make money at the same time without too much stress or too much inconvenience.
2. Hold a fundraising yard sale. You can even combine it with a bake sale and if you do it right, you can make a significant amount of money.
3. Hold a fundraising dinner. In most cases, you will need to have more than one dinner in order to raise enough money but it can be done.
4. See if you can find a group who is putting on an event such as a musical, play or other event who would be willing to donate a portion of their event sales to your autism therapies fund or maybe even put on a special night of the same event just for you and your fundraising efforts.
5. Find a group of direct sales owners and see if they can do a group fundraiser by hosting a fundraising event selling their products and then donating a portion of their profits to you.
6. Find a direct sales rep who has a business that offers fundraising and use their products to host your own fundraiser.
7. Find out who in your friends, family, neighbors has some unwanted items that they would be willing to donate to you for you to sell on ebay or at another kind of sale.
8. Figure out what kind of service you could offer in exchange for pay and then offer this service to people all day long for a few days as a large money making event, or you can offer the service for a few hours each week all of the time.
9. Do a telethon and ask people for money. You would be surprised how many people would be willing to donate at least a few dollars to your cause.
10. Have a car wash. High school groups and other groups do it so why not you? You could make it work for you to raise money for autism therapies too.
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awesome, thanks so much!
Our twins with autism just turned 5 years old. They’re in special ed in public school, though I’d LOVE to send them to a private ABA based curriculum (price tags on those are about $70,000 per kid, only $20,000 of which I can get from the state).
Private therapy outside of school hours (OT, PT, speech) ASIDE from ABA is mostly covered by insurance but I’m finding that social skills groups are NOT.
Ironically, ABA and social skills groups are what one of my children needs the most.
I’ve got 2 more income sources for those interested….
try your family supports program through your county board of developmental disabilities. I don’t know if all states have this, but we’re getting $2250 per year—- $1200 of it pays for daycamp and the rest we use for babysitting (which is called “respite care” in fancy terms). It can also pay for pullups for children over 3 who are not yet potty trained because of their disabilities— some insurance programs will pay for that though (our kids’ insurance does– we’re just NOW stopping the pullup shipments— my twins are finally training!)
there’s also a grant program at http://act-today.org/act-today-grant-program.php
Annalaura, I’ve been following your journey since before I had children— now that I have 2 children who happen to have autism and a lot of my life revolves around autism, it’s refreshing to see that you’re not only a work at home/ network marketing guru, but you’re extremely helpful in the autism and asthma/ allergy communities as well—- I don’t know how you do all you do, knowing that you’re also working outside the home— keep up the awesome work!
PS— using my oils and enjoying them!
You are so welcome Heather.