Assist Us Deliver Again Print!
We’re launching a marketing campaign to boost $100,00 to safe the way forward for New Mobility and restart common print problems with the journal. These of you who’ve been studying New Mobility for a very long time could also be questioning why, lower than a yr after we stopped common print publication, we try to carry it again.
The reply is easy: As a result of print magazines are a priceless, tangible useful resource that attain members of our group in locations that digital doesn’t. We had been in a position to increase sufficient to place collectively a particular print challenge earlier this yr. The heartening response confirmed us the demand for print points, and it reaffirmed our perception that re-establishing them is important to our mission.
However let’s get right down to onerous truths. For years, New Mobility has been surviving as a journalistic enterprise not due to advert gross sales or well-heeled donors, however as a result of our mother or father group, United Spinal Affiliation, acknowledges NM’s worth for our group. Just lately although, post-pandemic financial hardships have lowered nonprofit budgets in all places and made it tougher to maintain the type of genuine, obligatory and more and more costly storytelling that defines New Mobility.
So, we’re turning to you, our group, not merely for donations however for a partnership. Will you assist us maintain our mission? Will you share this marketing campaign with your individual networks and clarify why New Mobility issues to you? Will you assist us elevate the voices of wheelchair customers from throughout our group?
Click on the button to go to our marketing campaign web page, the place you can also make a sustaining reward, monitor progress towards our objective, and share the marketing campaign along with your folks.
With gratitude,
Ian Ruder, Editor-in-Chief
Seth McBride, Senior Director of Digital Content material
And now, on to the enjoyable stuff…
Expertise
This Wheelchair Consumer Was Simply Awarded $41.5 Million to Design the Energy Chair of the Future
Because the director of the Human Engineering Analysis Labs on the College of Pittsburgh, Rory Cooper has been on the forefront of designing new mobility applied sciences for many years. Now, Cooper and his staff at HERL have been awarded $41.5 million to assist design the facility wheelchair of the longer term. Click on to learn extra in regards to the undertaking, which goals to incorporate the whole lot from superior sensors, to curb-climbing options and a robotic arm to let high-quads extra simply work together with their surroundings.
Merchandise
The Bowhead Ranger is a Extremely-Succesful, Adaptive Mountain Bike Constructed for Quads
Bowhead has expanded its line of adaptive off-road bikes with the launch of the Ranger, a completely electrical bike particularly designed for these with restricted hand operate and higher-level spinal twine accidents. It options Bowhead’s distinctive, articulating entrance finish that permits you to lean into turns and extra simply navigate aspect slopes, however the Ranger has two wheels within the again to extend stability.
Comedian
Individuals
May Paralympian and ‘Prairie Populist’ Josh Turek Be Iowa’s Subsequent Senator?
Iowa State Consultant Josh Turek is leaning into his incapacity and his working-class roots to cross partisan divides within the 2026 Senate race. Ian Ruder spoke with him about how he’s crafting his message to voters as a proudly disabled candidate, how he believes getting out the disabled vote might be “certainly one of his superpowers” within the race and rather more.
Journey
Oregon is ‘Accessibility Verified.’ What Does That Imply?
Accessible journey group Wheel the World just lately named Oregon as the primary state to be “Accessibility Verified.” We investigated and located that whereas the verification might have began as a advertising marketing campaign, it’s additionally had important real-world impacts which might be already bettering each trip-planning and bodily accessibility for disabled vacationers.
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