The Georgia Center for Nonprofits and The Home Depot Foundation have announced Friends of Disabled Adults and Children as the winner of two 2018 Collaborative Innovation Grants totaling $80,000. FODAC will use the grant funds to create new partnerships with Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta and Goodwill Industries of North Georgia. These partnerships will be mutually beneficial and support FODAC’s mission of providing durable medical equipment, such as wheelchairs, walkers, shower benches and patient lifts, to those with either short- or long-term mobility impairments, at little to no cost to the recipients or their caregivers.
The annual Collaborative Innovation Grant program is an invite-only competition for nonprofits in the Building Community Network, led by GCN and The Home Depot Foundation. Two organizations with different focus areas must apply together.
The “Expand Recycling and Access to Home Medical Equipment” program will establish ten new locations for collecting DME donations to Goodwill that are not in its scope for selling. These specialized wheelchairs and other mobility and daily living equipment will be set aside for FODAC to collect and redistribute to the disability community, recycling these valuable devices and increasing opportunities for clients of both organizations.
Information: fodac.org.
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