First place and winner of a $3,000 grant Opened in 1958, Magee Rehabilitation Hospital (Magee) is a non-profit, 80-bed hospital providing physical and cognitive rehabilitation services to the city of Philadelphia and surrounding communities. Of the treatments they provide in the Creative Therapy Center, the addendum therapy services, are supported entirely by generous donations and...

Runner up and winner of a $1,000 grant Opportunity Knocks (OK) enriches life and community for teens and young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD). OK supports IDD persons as they live, work, learn, grow and connect within their community through after work/after school and adult day programming as well as an umbrella of...

Runner up and winner of a $1,000 grant The therapeutic horticulture (TH) program at Wilmot Botanical Gardens (WBG) takes place inside a state-of-the-art greenhouse, outside in raised beds and throughout five acres of gardens. The TH program is dedicated for those with medical challenges and other special needs, but also for students, volunteers, and those...

First place vote-recipient and winner of a $3,000 grant Beyond Boundaries is an equine-assisted therapy center that provides skilled therapy services to children and adults with disabilities. Founded in 2003, and receiving 501-3c status in 2004, Beyond Boundaries was conceived by a group of therapists and other individuals who identified the need for a dedicated...

Second place vote-recipient and winner of a $1,000 grant The Kenny Rogers Children’s Center is an outpatient pediatric therapy center whose mission is to improve the quality of life for children with special needs and their families throughout the community and region by providing a wide array of superior developmental and therapeutic services. The Kenny...

Third place vote-recipient and winner of a $1,000 grant Insight Garden Program (IGP) facilitates an innovative environmental education curriculum combined with vocational gardening and landscaping training, so that people in prison can reconnect to self, community, and the natural world. This “inner” and “outer” gardening approach transforms lives, ends ongoing cycles of incarceration, and creates...

First place vote-recipient and winner of a $3,000 grant The Monarch School of New England (MSNE) is a unique, comprehensive, private, non-profit, year-round, specialized, day school for students, 5 to 21 years of age, with severe physical, intellectual, emotional, medical and developmental disabilities. MSNE’s programs, located on two sites, are based on an integrated team…