{"id":3218,"date":"2015-11-05T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2015-11-05T09:24:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-05T14:24:50","slug":"mdtaps-fy16-small-grant-recipients-11515","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3218","title":{"rendered":"MDTAP&#8217;s FY16 small-grant recipients, 11\/5\/15"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>MDTAP is excited to announce the recipients of our FY16 small-grant awards!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hasa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">The Hearing and Speech Agency<\/a> &#8211; A grant to purchase the ProxTalker Unit and peripherals, to expand their demonstration and loan library for Marylander&#8217;s with communication challenges.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lollipopkidsfoundation.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">The Lollipop Kids Foundation<\/a> &#8211; A grant to continue supporting the Equipment Loan Closet AND a grant to establish a Boardmaker Computer Lab for parent&#8217;s of children with disabilities to access needed training and adapted communications materials.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imagemd.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">IMAGE Center<\/a> &#8211; A grant to establish a fully functioning accessible kitchen, available to all Marylanders with disabilities to visit and get access to hands-on demonstrations.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Bay-Area-Center-for-Independent-Living-388993837910100\/timeline\/\" target=\"_blank\" shape=\"rect\">Bay Area Center for Independent Living<\/a> &#8211; A grant to establish a short-term loan program for modular ramps on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. These modular ramps will be available for families to borrow on average of four months at a time while they explore permanent ramp solutions.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=3218\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MDTAP is excited to announce the recipients of our FY16 small-grant awards! The Hearing and Speech Agency &#8211; A grant to purchase the ProxTalker Unit and peripherals, to expand their demonstration and loan library for Marylander&#8217;s with communication challenges. The Lollipop Kids Foundation &#8211; A grant to continue supporting the Equipment Loan Closet AND a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,36,26,27,34],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3254,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions\/3254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}