Quality of Life Grants: 2nd Cycle 2010: Actively Achieving
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4 Paws for Ability, Inc. Military/Veterans
Xenia, OH
$10,000
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This Quality of Life grant will support a project targeted specifically at United States service men and women returning wounded from duty in Iraq or Afghanistan that have sustained mobility impairments, including spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury and limb loss.
Visit their website at www.4pawsforability.org.
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Abilities!
Albertson, NY
$2,983
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support the Friday Night Recreation program, where students in grades 4 through 12 at the Henry Viscardi School stay to play wheelchair sports (hockey, football, basketball); go to special interest clubs (computer, cooking, etc.); and play on the wheelchair accessible playground.
Visit their website at www.abilitiesonline.org.
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Able Flight, Inc.
Chapel Hill, NC
$8,000
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support the Purdue University Training Program 2011. Able Flight and Purdue University's Department of Aviation technology will continue a joint training partnership in 2011 based on a successful program established in 2010.
Visit their website at www.ableflight.org.
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Achieving Wheelchair Equality, Inc.
North Charleston, SC
$7,400
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This Quality of Life grant will enable development of outdoor sports and recreational programming to augment the base services presently offered (wheelchair basketball, Cooper River Bridge Run, peer support, etc.)
Visit their website at www.awelws.org.
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Adaptive Sports Center of Crested Butte, Inc.
Crested Butte, CO
$7,500
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support and sustain the All-Inclusive Mountain Bike Initiative, and will help to underwrite the purchase of two adaptive downhill mountain bikes for the program.
Visit their website at www.adaptivesports.org.
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Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
Albert Einstein Medical Center
Philadelphia, PA
$4,600
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The Quality of Life grant will help to support expansion of Fitness for Life, a supervised physical fitness program for persons living with spinal cord injury.
Visit their website at www.einstein.edu.
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Amazement Square
Lynchburg, VA
$4,800
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support the Everyone is Special program, offered in collaboration with LAUREL Regional School, which serves students ages 4 through 21 who are severely and profoundly physically and mentally handicapped.
Visit their website at www.amazementsquare.org.
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American DanceWheels Foundation, Inc. Military/Veterans
Bala Cynwyd, PA
$5,000
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This Quality of Life grant will support the So You Think You Can't Dance? Wounded Veterans Wheelchair Ballroom and Latin Dance Program, geared to veterans with spinal cord injuries and their able-bodied partners.
Visit their website at www.americandancewheels.org.
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Anchors Away Program Military/Veterans
Charleston, SC
$7,800
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support partnerships with Veterans Affairs in Washington DC, local Veterans Administration Hospitals, Wounded Warriors, and Disabled Sports USA, to offer veterans of mixed abilities and their families a broad range of opportunities to participate in recreational activities, including adaptive water skiing, kayaking, fishing and sailing voyages aboard different vessels.
Visit their website at www.anchorsawayprogram.org.
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Arizona Bridge to Independent Living
Phoenix, AZ
$25,000
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support the creation of the Virginia G. Piper Sports and Fitness Center for People with Disabilities, a 45,000 square-foot sports and fitness center (SPOFIT) currently being constructed that features two full-size basketball/rugby courts, an accessible running track, a 7,000 square-foot fitness center with fully accessible exercise equipment, and an aquatics center.
Visit their website at www.abil.org.
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ArtStream, Inc. Military/Veterans
Silver Spring, MD
$6,250
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support Allies in the Arts: ArtStream's Artists-in-Residence Project with Wounded Warriors and Their Families at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.
Visit their website at www.art-stream.org.
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Assistance Dogs of the West
Santa Fe, NM
$5,000
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This Quality of Life grant will support the Client Placement Process, including an intensive 2-week Client Placement Training program, which matches highly trained assistance dogs with individuals with paralysis.
Visit their website at www.assistancedogsofthewest.org.
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Bethune Theatredanse
Los Angeles, CA
$4,500
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support the Bethune II - Dance Concert and Dramatic Arts Gala, a full-length work created and supervised by Lead Choreographer-Director Zina Bethune.
Visit their website at www.bethunetheatredanse.org.
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BlazeSports Tampa Bay Military/Veterans
Tampa, FL
$7,500
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support the Strong Dogs Wheelchair Basketball team, based out of Tampa, Florida and managed by Paralympic Sport Tampa Bay, Hillsborogh County Parks Recreation and Conservation Department, and James A. Haley Veterans Hospital.
Visit their website at www.tampabaystrongdogs.blogspot.com.
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Burke Rehabilitation Hospital
White Plains, NY
$6,000
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This Quality of Life grant will help to underwrite the purchase of one Ness L-300 Wireless Foot Drop System, a device that employs functional electrical stimulation (F.E.S.) to muscles to help accelerate rehabilitation therapy.
Visit their website at www.burke.org.
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Camelot Therapeutic Horsemanship, Inc.
Scottsdale, AZ
$5,000
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support the Therapy Horse Maintenance Project, which will offset the costs incurred for the purchase of necessary horse feed, vitamins, minerals and pharmaceuticals for a twelve-month period.
Visit their website at www.camelot-th.org.
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Camp Aldersgate
Little Rock, AR
$2,847
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support the 2011 Camp Aldersgate Spina Bifida Camp, which will offer 45 to 50 children, ages 6 to 18, an opportunity to participate in a week-long camping experience tailored specifically to children with spina bifida.
Visit their website at www.campaldersgate.net.
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Can Do Multiple Sclerosis
(formerly The Heuga Center)
Edwards, CO
$5,500
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support Can Do MS, a program that empowers people to move beyond their multiple sclerosis by giving them the knowledge, skills, tools and confidence to adopt healthy lifestyle behaviors, actively co-manage their disease, and live their best lives.
Visit their website at www.mscando.org.
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Canine Companions for Independence
Northeast Region
Medford, NY
$6,500
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This Quality of Life grant will help to underwrite two pieces of specialized equipment that will be used by clients during their two-week Team Training on-site training sessions at the Northeast Campus, which offers on-site living accommodations for students.
Visit their website at www.cci.org.
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Challenge Mountain of Walloon Hills, Inc.
Boyne City, MI
$8,333
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This Quality of Life grant will help to support an initiative to provide area marinas at Northern Michigan waterways with Sure Hands dock-to-boat lifts, enabling individuals who use wheelchairs for mobility to access the adaptive sailing activities offered at the abundant lakes of the region.
Visit their website at www.challengemtn.org.
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