Quality of Life Grants: 1st Cycle 2011: Actively Achieving
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AbilityFirst
Pasadena, CA
$4,000
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This grant will increase accessibility at Camp Paivika, a 10-acre mountain retreat that is fully accessible to children and adults with physical and developmental disabilities.
Visit their website at www.abilityfirst.org.
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Adaptive Sports Program Of Ohio
Wooster, OH
$6,640
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This grant will help to support Northeast Ohio Power Soccer, which will provide power soccer to individuals that use power wheelchairs in Cleveland, Akron, Canton, Wooster and Ashland areas in the State of Ohio.
Visit their website at www.ohioadaptivesports.com.
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Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital of Maryland (ARHM)
Rockville, MD
$10,000
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This grant will help to support the purchase and installation of the ZeroG Overground Gait and Balance Training System to help patients of all abilities to practice a wide range of intensive gait and balance activities in a safe and controlled environment.
Visit their website at www.adventisthealthcare.com/arhm.
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Association for Handicapped Recreation, Inc.
DBA Specialized Needs Recreation
Coeur d'Alene, ID
$4,800
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This grant will help to support Camp Allstars, which offers a six-hour-day camp 70 days of the year to children with disabilities ages 4 to 21.
Visit their website at www.zandzproductions.com/SNR.htm.
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Athletes Serving Athletes, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$6,000
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This grant will help to support Wings for Wheels: Sports Mentoring Program for Youth with Disabilities.
Visit their website at www.athletesservingathletes.org.
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Axis Dance Company
Oakland, CA
$7,500
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This grant will help to support Dance Access & Dance Access/KIDS! Programs that engage youth and adults with and without disabilities in dance classes, workshops, master classes, teacher trainings, assembly programs, and performances.
Visit their website at www.axisdance.org.
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C. Thomas Clagett Jr. Memorial Clinic And Regatta
Portsmouth, RI
$7,128
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This grant will help to support the full-day clinic and three-day regatta, a training program for disabled sailors with Paralympic aspirations.
Visit their website at clagettregatta.org.
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Cape Cod YMCA
West Barnstable, MA
$3,990
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This grant will help to underwrite the cost of two KRANKcycles to allow members that use wheelchairs to work out with a friend or exercise partner.
Visit their website at www.ymcacapecod.org.
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Carolinas Healthcare Foundation
Charlotte, NC
$6,000
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This grant will help to support the Adaptive Sports & Adventures Program (ASAP), which has the mission to provide competitive and recreational adaptive sports opportunities for individuals with physical disabilities in the community we serve and to support and promote the achievement of personal goals of adaptive athletes.
Visit their website at www.carolinasrehabilitation.org.
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City of Gladwin, Michigan
Gladwin, Michigan
$5,000
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This grant will help to fund accessible playground equipment at the Gladwin City Park and Campground, which in addition to providing accessible recreation to community members with paralysis and their families, is the site for year-round community events.
Visit their website at www.gladwin.org.
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Civitan Foundation of Arizona/Southern Nevada
Phoenix, AZ
$3,500
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This grant will help to provide scholarships that will allow individuals living with paralysis in Arizona and adjoining parts of the Southwest to enjoy the unique benefits of the summer camp experience--including hiking, sports, recreation, arts, social opportunities, field trips, and much more.
Visit their website at www.campcivitan.org.
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Dakota State University
Madison, SD
$12,469
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This grant will help to fund Increasing Access to On-Line Education, a project designed to teach persons with motor disabilities resulting from paralysis, spinal cord, or other injuries to adapt and utilize voice recognition software in order to fully access and complete on-line college programs.
Visit their website at www.dsu.edu.
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Environmental Traveling Companions
San Francisco, CA
$1,950
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This grant will help to support one- to three-day educational outdoor adventures through kayak, river rafting, and cross-country skiing programs.
Visit their website at www.etctrips.org.
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Family YMCA of Black Hawk County
Waterloo, IA
$7,785
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This grant will help to make the aquatics programs at the facility, which include a lap pool and an instructional pool, accessible to individuals with motor impairments.
Visit their website at www.familyymcabhc.com.
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Freedom's Wings International
Coopersburg, PA
$2,000
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This grant will help to support an outreach event for military veterans with disabilities, and will provide sailplane rides to 20 military veterans with spinal cord injuries.
Visit their website at www.freedomswings.org.
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Greater New Orleans Miracle League
New Orleans, LA
$10,500
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This grant will help to support the Miracle Field, a custom-designed sports field that accommodates wheelchairs and other walking-assistance devices so that children with disabilities can hit, run, catch, and kick.
Visit their website at www.gnomiracleleague.org.
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Gro-Warren, Inc.
Warren, PA
$6,130
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This grant will help to support Crescent Park Rehabilitation, including construction of a state-of-the-art wheelchair accessible playground that will provide both ground level and elevated accessible play components.
Visit their website at www.growarrenpa.org.
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Holyoke Rows
Holyoke, MA
$1,969
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This grant will help to support the accessible community kayak project, which involves making the current community kayak program more accessible by the addition of a kayak equipped with outriggers for stability, a high back chair for support and a lightweight adaptive paddle.
Visit their website at www.holyokerows.org.
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Keshet Dance Company
Albuquerque, NM
$5,000
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This grant will help to support Dance and Diversity: Keshet's 2011Nutcracker on the Rocks, an original, annual holiday performance which provides the opportunity for individuals with physical disabilities to fully experience the joy of dance.
Visit their website at www.keshetdance.org.
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Kingston Revved Up
Kingston, Ontario
Canada
$15,000
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This grant will help to support Onward and Upward: Enhancing and Sustaining Kingston Revved Up Services, aimed to sustain and supplement Revved Up activities with a group-based physical activity counseling program that teaches members the skills to increase their activity levels to meet the guidelines.
Visit their website at www.queensu.ca/skhs/Revvedup.html.
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