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Assistive Technology

50 LegsZ
Provides amputees with the necessary care and prosthetics that they could not otherwise afford.

Ability Found
877 231 4567
Assists in mobility and adaptive equipment for patients of all ages in need for little or no cost. Manual wheelchairs, walking devices, specialty shower chairs, manual lifts, transfer devices, and augmentative communication devices are just some of the items that Ability Found can provide.

Amputee Blade Runners
615 752 1223
[email protected]
Helps provide free running prosthetics for amputees

Challenged Athletes Foundation (CAF)
858 866 0959
[email protected]
Provides grants for adaptive sports equipment, coaching, and competition expenses.

Chive Charities
Dedicated to helping those individuals with rare medical conditions, veterans, first responders with medically-related needs, underfunded special needs education initiatives, and other 501(c)(3) organizations who concentrate on these populations. They provide therapy equipment and sessions not covered by insurance, handicap accessibility home and car modifications, mobility devices, and purchasing of developmental and learning devices.

Fighting Back Scholarship Program
610 688 8868
[email protected]
Provides a scholarship for one-on-one rehabilitative training at the Fighting Back facility in Malvern, Pennsylvania.

First Hand Foundation
816 201 1569
Helps with funding for children with health needs when insurance and other financial resources have been used. This funding goes towards clinical necessities (procedures, medicine, therapy), medical equipment (wheelchairs, assistive technology equipment, care devices, hearing aids), travel expenses (lodging, gas), and vehicle modifications (lifts, ramps, and transfer boards).

Friends of Man
303 798 2342
Helps people of all ages obtain mobility equipment, medical equipment and procedures, hearing aids, dentures, glasses, basic needs, short-term daycare, prescriptions, COBRA/health insurance, and other financial assistance.

Jordan Thomas Foundation
423-622 9006
Provides children affected by limb loss with the prostheses they need throughout childhood and adolescence. This foundation provides limbs to children up to the age of 18. Additionally, there is the option of a one-time assistance program for young adults ages 18-24.

Life Nets: The Wheelchair Project
[email protected]
Takes donated wheelchairs and gives them to individuals in need.

Move For Jenn
704 710 6299
Grant application
Offers grants to sarcoma researchers and those who have suffered the loss of a limb to sarcoma or other affiliated diseases.

Range of Motion Project (ROMP) US Assistance Program (USAP)
ROMP USAP serves people with amputation who do not have access to prosthetic care due to immigration status, lack of insurance, or extreme financial hardship.

Shriners Hospital
800 237 5055
Provides free orthopedic care to children under the age of 18 if there is a reasonable possibility that the child’s condition can be helped.

Starkey Hearing Foundation
Assists those permanently residing in the U.S. who are deaf or hard-of-hearing and have no other resources to acquire hearing aids.

Steps of Faith Foundation
615 426 6034
[email protected]
Helps uninsured and under-insured amputees get prosthetic limbs.

The Heather Abbott Foundation
Committed to those who have lost limbs due to traumatic circumstances get specialized prosthetic devices.

The Wheelchair Project
[email protected]
Facilitates the exchange of donated wheelchairs between individuals and is not for the use of vendors or distributors.

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