Thank you for inviting CARRYWELL into your fertility journey. We are honored to be able to support couples financially and give the gift of hope.
Below you will find the required information and documents to complete this application. Once you start the application you are able to save and finish later. You will receive an email with a link to use when you are ready to continue the application.
This is a surprise round and we will be awarding 2 Grants! Last day to submit an application is Wednesday, December 13, 2023 by noon central. See details below.
Required Information and Documents:
- Marriage Certificate
- Proof of Legal U.S. Residency
- birth certificate, passport, visa, or other form of accepted documentation establishing the applicants’ legal residency status
- Wife & Husband's Medical History and Lab Results
- Monthly Budget
- W2 and/or check stub for husband & wife
- Tax Return
- Two Months of Bank & Credit Card Statements
- Background Check Authorization
- Acknowledgement Form
- Fertility & Faith Journey Submissions
Disqualifying Factors:
- Incomplete application/missing documents
- BMI greater than >39 kg/m2
- Smoking(positive cotinine levels)/Vaping/Juuling/Illegal Drug Use
- IVF for female over age 40 (all procedures must be performed prior to the wife’s 40th birthday)
- Lack of commercial insurance (no Medicaid or Medicare)
- Misrepresentation of information
- Failed background check
- Illegal U.S. resident
- Failure to properly redact names on documents notated below
Family Growth Grant Coverage:
We have partnered with medical practices in Birmingham and Tennessee. If you receive a Family Growth Grant you will be required to use our medical partners for your fertility treatments. All travel arrangements will be the responsibility of the recipient.
Medical Partners:
Innovative Fertility Specialist (IFS), Birmingham, AL. IFS specializes in InvoCell.
Alabama Fertility Specialist (AFS), Birmingham, AL. AFS specializes in traditional IVF.
National Embryo Donation Center (NEDC), Knoxville, TN. NEDC specializes in embryo donation and adoption and requires transfers to be done at their facility.
The Grant covers the transfer of the IVF treatment from egg retrieval to embryo transfer. The patient will be responsible for any additional charges/procedures outside that time frame including but not limited to: the initial consultation with the provider (husband and wife), additional laboratory/medical screening deemed necessary by the provider, cycle monitoring, medications, cryopreservation of sperm (if necessary), surgical extraction of sperm (if necessary), cryopreservation of embryos in excess of those transferred (as appropriate), pregnancy tests, pregnancy monitoring and ultrasounds. Your health care provider will discuss additional necessary procedures prior to your enrollment in an IVF treatment cycle. Medical care and/or decisions on treatment reside with the Medical Proivder.
To prevent all bias, an anonymous Grant Committee has been selected to review and award the Grants. No member of the ministry staff has any influence on the decision making process. Once the couples have been selected, they will receive a phone call from the Executive Director of CARRYWELL.
If the recipient becomes pregnant before the Grant is utilized the funds will be held until the mother is 12 weeks in utero. At that time, the Grant funds will be released and used at CARRYWELL's discretion.