Website: Hike Fund
The HIKE Fund, Inc. is a not-for-profit charity incorporated under the laws of the State of Nebraska and registered with the Internal Revenue Service as a tax-exempt charity. The Fund is the continuing philanthropic project of Job’s Daughters International.
The purpose of the Fund is to provide hearing devices for children with hearing losses between the ages of newborn and twenty years whose parents are unable to meet this special need financially. Estimates of 100 children are provided with hearing devices each year. Examples of eligible hearing devices include hearing aids, enclosed caption converters for television, tactile units, FM units (into which a hearing aid is plugged for amplification), computers to assist deaf children in communicating, as well as other technical devices may be prescribed.
Eligibility Requirements and Application Process
Individuals with moderate to profound hearing loss, birth to 20 years of age, Nationwide.
The need must be verified by a prescription from an audiologist or physician. Additional information as well as applications can be downloaded from the website listed above or below: Application Information – The HIKE Fund, Inc.
Assistive Technology Resource Guide link: Hike Fund
Categories: Hearing, Private funding, Private funding: National