Austin Whitney
Accessible Festivals
Our mission is to foster connection and understanding through the universal language of music, to provide a platform where people of all abilities and identities can connect and build relationships, and to inspire the creation of safe, inclusive, and equitable communities.
@thefestivaldog
Gary Linfoot
American Mobility Project
Bountiful American Foundation, INC. (d.b.a. American Mobility Project) was founded in the spring of 2019 by Mari and Gary Linfoot, and Bob Hyde. The foundation's purpose is to provide mobility and adaptive equipment and resources to those living with disabilities. Gary Linfoot was injured in a helicopter crash while serving in the U.S. Army in Iraq in 2008.
@americanmobilityproject
Anna Schaffelhuber
Anna Schaffelhuber Grenzenlos Camps
The Anna Schaffelhuber Grenzenlos Camps will take place in the Burghausen Youth Hostel in 2021. Further camps are also planned for this year in Lower Saxony and Baden-Württemberg . * They offer exciting sports experiences paired with exciting media know-how about film and photography.
@annaschaffelhuber
Chris Norton
Chris Norton Foundation
The Chris Norton Foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with spinal cord and neuromuscular disabilities live their best lives. By making a donation and helping us spread awareness, you’re bringing invaluable tools, therapies, adaptive camps and research to millions of people.
@chrisanorton16
Stephanie Woodward
Disability Empower Network
Empowering Disabled Girls to Lead
Here at Disability EmpowHer Network, we value disabled women and we believe in the potential of girls and young women with disabilities to succeed and to lead. We want to be a catalyst for positive change, and we're driven by our commitment to skill-building, encouragement, and mentorship. Learn more about us below.
Emmanuel Chidube
Dubel Disabilty Foundation
Owerri, Nigeria - Dubel Disabilty foundation was founded as a result of my injury in 2008. I had a car accident which resulted to spinal cord injury and a broken chest causing a spinal cord injury at T6-7 complete. Dubel Disabilty foundation provides humanitarian services primary to people with spinal cord injury to help them live a better and comfortable life.
Garrison Redd
Garrison Redd Project
The Garrison Redd Project exists in order to provide individuals living with disabilities an opportunity to achieve real independence by highlighting the need for inclusivity, diversity, and accessibility in all areas of life. People of the disabled community are often subject to limited opportunities due to physical mobility, our foundation seeks to address this issue by creating a wellness initiative that returns that sense of mobility by providing active sports & workshops to improve health and well-being.
@garrisonredd
Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson Foundation
The Joe Jackson Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that strives to inspire, inform and enable children living with spinal cord injuries (SCI) to continue living actively; support opportunities for Joe’s quest to walk again; and to help spinal cord injury survivors.
John Fair III
John Fair III Spinal Cord Injury Foundation
The John Fair III Spinal Cord Injury Foundation is dedicated to improving the quality of life for all SCI survivors. We work to create events that are wheelchair friendly and focused on giving disabled individuals the opportunity to experience fun and exciting events.
Madeline Elizabeth Delp
Live Boundless
Our mission at its core is to create an inclusive world for people with disabilities. We aim to use our four-step process in every city and country in-need to establish a system of inclusion for those with disabilities, while creating sustainable systems that will carry on.
@madelinedelp
Jerimie Dixon
Live to Walk Again
The Live to Walk Again Foundation was founded in 2015, and is the culmination of years of planning. The goals of the Foundation are two-fold:
To fast track a cure for paralysis by creating a platform where regenerative scientists and physicians can meet and work together, combining knowledge and technologies to design a groundbreaking, pioneering procedure.
To find new ways to improve quality of life for patients who currently have paralysis, enabling them to live optimally while a cure is being developed.
@livetowalkagain
Mike Utley
Mike Utley Foundation
The mission of the Mike Utley Foundation is to financially support an effective function-restoring treatment for spinal cord injuries, to encourage through education that of adopting a rehabilitative lifestyle for the spinal cord injured and a public awareness of spinal cord injuries.
Vincent Pierce
Open Doors NYC
OPEN DOORS is a collective of disabled artists, nursing home residents, advocates and allies.
OPEN DOORS is led by the experiences and voices of the Reality Poets.
OPEN DOORS produces artistic collaborations, programs and mobilizing campaigns focused on community building, disability justice and gun violence prevention.
OPEN DOORS is a project of the Center for Transformative Action—a 501 (c) 3 affiliated with Cornell University.
@opendoorsnyc
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Paralyzed Veterans of America
A congressionally chartered veterans service organization founded in 1946, has developed a unique expertise on a wide variety of issues involving the special needs of our members – veterans of the armed forces who have experienced spinal cord injury or dysfunction.
@pva1946
Paralyzed Veterans of America
Paralyzed Veterans of America
A congressionally chartered veterans service organization founded in 1946, has developed a unique expertise on a wide variety of issues involving the special needs of our members – veterans of the armed forces who have experienced spinal cord injury or dysfunction.
@pva1946
Spinal Cord Injury Alberta
Raising Children from a Wheelchair
We introduce you to Brittney, a mother with a spinal cord injury, who shares techniques and valuable information on how to raise a child from a wheelchair. Her helpful tips empower parents to successfully place a child in a crib, change diapers on a change table, and put a child in a jolly jumper, swing or in a child safety harness for outings such as walks or grocery shopping.
Mayra Fornos (friend of SCI)
Ralph's Riders Foundation
Founded in 2008 by Mayra Fornos in Los Angeles, California. She wanted to create a community of exceptional individuals with spinal cord injuries and mobility impairments in Southern California to provide peer guidance, resource information, inspirational advice and a supporting network for other individuals in need.
Gary Nicholson
Regeneration NE
Regeneration N.E. is a Community Interest Company. We are based in Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, but are active throughout the North East of England. Now, as a disability-led arts organization, we are working to make Art and Culture more accessible, diverse and representative of the communities we serve.
@regenerationne
Ricky Palermo
Ricky Palermo Foundation
Our foundation has grown into more than just raising awareness and money. We have annual comedy shows, soccer, basketball and lacrosse clinics, and dinners with both live and silent auctions. In 25 years, we have donated $1.7 million to our community and to research at The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis.
Rise Again
Rise Again Beyond Expectations
Rise Again supports individuals with spinal cord injury or illness to believe and reach beyond expectations. Rise Again will also provide grants to professionals and organizations who focus on improving the quality of life of those affected by spinal cord injury or illness.
Ryan Shazier
Ryan Shazier Fund for Spinal Rehabilitation
The Ryan Shazier Fund for Spinal Rehabilitation is the brainchild of former Pittsburgh Steelers linebacker, Ryan Shazier, whose life-altering spinal cord injury (SCI) opened his eyes to a vulnerable community and the systemic barriers SCI patients face in their road to recovery.
@ryanshazierfund
Ligia Andrade (Zuniga)
Sexability
Sexability is an organization committed to empowering people with disabilities to expand sexuality and create intimate loving relationships. Since our beginning in 2006 we have been working with individuals, groups and organizations to transform sexuality and disability
Pauline H. Siegel (passed 2017)
Siegel Rare Neuroimmune Association
A non-profit dedicated to the support of those with Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM), Acute Flaccid Myelitis (AFM), MOG Antibody Disease (MOGAD), Neuromyelitis Optica Spectrum Disorder (NMOSD), Optic Neuritis (ON), and Transverse Myelitis (TM
@wearesrna
Alex Johnson (not SCI)
Spend a Day in My Wheels
Accept the challenge to participate in Permobil Foundation & Team ALeX’s “Spend A Day In My Wheels” Wheelchair Challenge! The Team ALeX Challenge is an effort to raise awareness about people that use assistive mobility devices. Team ALeX challenges participants to spend a work or school day doing their daily activities in a wheelchair.
Catriona Williams
The Cat Walk Trust
Our mission is to get people out of wheelchairs and back on their feet.
The CatWalk Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Trust is a New Zealand charity dedicated to finding a cure for spinal cord injury. We raise the vital funds for spinal cord injury repair, research and advancement.
@catwalk_trust
Devon Walker
The Devon Walker Foundation
The Devon Walker Foundation was founded to create global awareness and education towards spinal cord injuries in order to help prevent the condition while also positively affecting the quality of life of individuals who have sustained spinal cord injuries through adaptive equipment and funding of advances in medical treatments towards a cure.
@devonwalker18
Justin Vijay Jesudas
The Spinal Foundation
The Spinal Foundation is an India Self-Help Group for persons with spinal cord injury. We have recorded instances of spinal cord injury (SCI) for more than 60 years now. Several small groups / individuals have been working to support persons with SCI in different parts of India. There has, however, been no concerted effort to push for improved quality of life for persons with SCI at a national level.
Mark Raymond Jr.
The Split Second Foundation
The Split Second Foundation (SSF) is a New Orleans-based nonprofit community care startup dedicated to promoting the holistic wellness of individuals with disabilities. Our mission is to deliver comprehensive care, resources, education and advocacy to those affected by disabilities, promoting independent living and enhancing their quality of life.
@splitsecondfoundation
Andrew Skinner
Triumph Foundation
Triumph Foundation's mission is to help children, adults, and Veterans with Spinal Cord Injury/Disorder (SCI) to triumph over their disability and to inspire them to keep moving forward with their lives by pushing themselves to get better every day.