01/05/2026
Welcoming 2026: The Cabrini Health Foundation continued their deep support of CP Unlimited with a $1M grant to continue and expand the Agency’s complimentary wheelchair evaluation, maintenance, repair, and cleaning clinics throughout New York.
The generous contribution empowers CP Unlimited’s Rehabilitation Team to offer wheelchair clinics that help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, seniors, veterans, and others use their wheelchairs with greater comfort, safety, and reliability throughout New York State.
The grant allows trained technicians the opportunity to inspect and calculate how best to serve people who use wheelchairs; this can mean a simple repair to full replacement of their chair to help an individual reach new levels of mobility and independence. In addition, a regular series of wheelchair clinics provides recurring opportunities to cleanse and sanitize up to 40 chairs at a time. The funding will also permit CPU to continue servicing power wheelchair users, preserve a train-the-trainer program for I/DD partners statewide, and to implement new and innovative artificial intelligence and smart technology to advance the capability of participants.
The Foundation was inspired and encouraged by the ongoing popularity and reach of the wheelchair clinics: Since 2021, CP Unlimited has reached tens of thousands of individuals statewide and expanded the audience through senior homes, events by local politicians, and community health fairs. In 2025, the Agency serviced over 11,000 people through direct service and outreach campaigns.
The generous contribution empowers CP Unlimited’s Rehabilitation Team to offer wheelchair clinics that help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, seniors, veterans, and others use their wheelchairs with greater comfort, safety, and reliability throughout New York State.
