Organizations Filed Purposes:
Empower people with physically disabling conditions to maintain and improve their health and wellness by: ensuring access to therapeutic physical activity and advancing education, research, and public policy that improve the health and wellness of people with disabling conditions
Group Health and Wellness activities: Gathering Strength received a grant to provide group health and wellness activities to people with paralysis. With the coronavirus crisis, and consequent restrictions, GS pivoted to providing online group activities. The grant was for July 1, 2020 - June 31, 2021. Gathering Strength conducted an online teacher training for yoga teachers in how to adapt classes for people with disabling neurological conditions such as stroke and spinal cord injuries. It also created an adapted chair yoga series for people with paralysis and a 9-week wheelchair fitness class that provided cardiovascular and strength training exercise for people with paralysis. The wheelchair fitness class was lead by a person with a spinal cord injury. More classes were provided in 2021.
Inclusive Digital Access project: Gathering Strength knows that many people with disabling conditions cannot afford, or do not have access to, high speed internet and an appropriate device with which to participate in online activities. GS wanted to make sure that people with disabling conditions, who live on low incomes, could participate in its online group health and wellness activities. GS received a grant in July of 2020 to create a pilot project to provide high speed internet service, a laptop or tablet, and assistive technology to people with disabling conditions. This is an unprecedented pilot project in this region, and possibly the nation. The goal of the pilot project was to engage 20-25 people to participate, and provide 1 year of high speed internet service via a hotspot, a laptop or tablet, and assistive technology such as voice to text software, special styluses, special keyboards, wheelchair clamps to hold the devices, etc. 21 people are participating.
Physical Activity After Stroke and Spinal Cord injury Event, October 15, 2020: Due to the coronavirus crisis, an in-person event scheduled for April 4, 2020, had to be canceled and rescheduled as an online event in October, 2020. The event featured two experts: one an expert on the impact an importance of physical activity after stroke; and the other an expert on the impact and importance of physical activity on cardiovascular health after spinal cord injury. Healthcare providers, stroke survivors, SCI survivors, and their family members/caregivers attended, 66 in all.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Elizabeth Fust | President/Secretary | 4 | $10,723 |
| Abbreial Drane | Director | 0 | $0 |
| Kathryn Mershon | Director | 0 | $0 |
| Jean Russell | Treasurer | 0 | $0 |
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