REquipment DME Reuse Program

03/12/2026

Today is Boston Marathon Giving Day, and we are so proud to introduce you to one of our 130th Boston Marathon runners, Sophia Mikula! 🏃‍♀️✨

For Sophia, REquipment’s mission is personal. Her uncle, who has Cerebral Palsy, was able to receive his first wheelchair and walker through organizations like REquipment. Those tools, along with years of hard work, eventually helped him learn to walk and live an independent life.

Now, as a senior at Boston College, Sophia volunteers at the Campus School, supporting students who rely on assistive technology to communicate and move. She is running to ensure that every person has the equipment they need to live life to the fullest.

Help Sophia reach her $10,000 goal today! Every donation helps REquipment provide refurbished mobility gear to those in need.

Support Sophia’s run here: https://bobhalllegacyfund.org/

03/12/2026

Great news! REquipment is now accepting donations of new-in-box CPAP and BIPAP supplies. These will be made available in the REquipment inventory under the "Daily Living" category.

CPAP/BIPAP supplies are expensive, and the program is no longer turning away these donations. Everything made available will be unopened and free for residents of Massachusetts.

Do you have unneeded new-in-box CPAP or BIPAP supplies? Please donate them for the benefit of a Massachusetts neighbor. Together, we can prevent needless waste and take care of one another.

Visit DMEreuse.org

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Lightning and clouds with text, Coming Soon

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Image of CPAP headgear with text, "New-in-Box CPAP/BIPAP Supplies"

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Find them listed under "Daily Living" in REquipment's inventory.

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Supplies are free to Massachusetts residents at DMEreuse.org.

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Please also donate your unneeded and unopened CPAP/BIPAP supplies.

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Help REquipment help a neighbor

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Visit REquipment ("re-QUIP-ment") at DMEreuse.org

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The REquipment wheelchair-person icon surrounded by the text, "Donate, refurbish, reuse."]


UCP of Western Massachusetts
AdLib Center for Independent Living
for Living and Working, Inc
Northeast Independent Living Program
CORD - Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled
Disability Resource Center
SCIL, Southeast Center for Independent Living
Independence Associates

03/11/2026

Attention, MA wheelchair users.

Tomorrow, please share your experience with wheelchair repair delays and denials and their impact on your life.

The Disability Policy Consortium is hosting a legislative briefing on the much-needed Wheelchair Repair bills that they have been championing to help fix this broken system.

Get your voice heard on Wednesday, March 12, 12:00 to 2:00 pm at State House Hearing Room B1. In person is best, Zoom is another option. More details below.

March is an important moment for wheelchair repair in Massachusetts.

This is the part of the legislative process where showing up matters. Where lawmakers need to hear directly from the people living with the consequences when systems do not work as they should.

That is why we are hosting a Legislative Briefing on the Massachusetts Wheelchair Repair Bills (H.4358 and S.2662). This briefing creates space for wheelchair users to share what delayed and denied repairs actually mean for daily life, mobility, and independence.

It is also a chance for allies to show up, listen, and stand alongside wheelchair users as legislators learn what is at stake.

Wednesday, March 12 12:00–2:00 PM
Massachusetts State House, Hearing Room B1 Accessible entrance, directly in front of security

Accessible Drop Off/Pick Up Location: 122 Bowdoin St Boston MA 02111 (Capitol Coffee)

We encourage wheelchair users to attend in person if you are able. Being seen in the room matters. If attending in person is not possible, a virtual option will be available. Your presence still matters.

Register here: https://tinyurl.com/WCBrief2026
*Zoom link provided after registration*

Please share with anyone who may want to join.

03/10/2026

Fifty years ago, Bob Hall became the first wheelchair athlete to officially complete the Boston Marathon. He did not just cross a finish line. He opened the door for every disabled athlete who would come after him.

This spring, his legacy returns to Boston.

The Bob Hall Legacy Fund, in partnership with REquipment, Inc., is proud to announce that Bob Hall's REquipment Racers will compete in the 2026 Boston Marathon Official Charity Program. We are raising $140,000 to ensure that children, adults, and veterans across Massachusetts have access to the mobility equipment they need to live, move, and participate in their communities with dignity.

We are just getting started. Follow along as we count down to race day.

02/18/2026

Why REquipment?

Because there is no other program in Massachusetts that collects and refurbishes gently used assistive technology devices and finds them new users.

Recently, a gamer with disabilities in Northfield found an Xbox Adaptive Controller (and Adaptive Gaming Kit) in the REquipment inventory. This is a unique and beautiful piece of equipment, a literal "game changer" for many, and we are so grateful to the donor.

Stephanie has multiple disabilities, saw it on our site while browsing the equipment inventory for a friend, and collected it to avoid any shipping charges.

A few weeks later, we wrote Stephanie to hear how it was going.

"I'm still figuring out getting it set up best for me, but I immediately found that having an adaptive setup reduced both the mistakes I was making and the pain I was having from playing games," Stephanie wrote to us. "And this meant that I have been able to more easily game when I want to. This is especially important to me because playing games with a group of friends remotely is one of the things I have available as a way to interact with friends from college, with the limitations my disabilities have put on me."

Do you have assistive technology devices you are no longer using? REquipment would love to have it!

Stephanie had planned to "figure out a way to save up" for this device. This is why the REquipment community is so valuable in Massachusetts. And why we celebrate Why REquipment Wednesday.

Learn more about REquipment at DMEreuse.org

UCP of Western Massachusetts
Stavros Center For Independent Living
AdLib Center for Independent Living
Center For Living And Working, Inc
Northeast Independent Living Program
CORD - Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled
Disability Resource Center
SCIL, Southeast Center for Independent Living
Independence Associates

02/17/2026

Happy Testimonial Tuesday to our lovely reuse community.

Look what you did!

Last week, REquipment received an email (that we are sharing with permission from the sender):

To whom it may concern [at REquipment],

My name is Dina. I am a volunteer at Douglas House in Lexington, Massachusetts, and am writing this thank-you on behalf of Joanne. She is a tenant living at the home who was in desperate need of a new wheelchair.

After doing some research, I found your organization online. There aren’t enough words to thank you for what you did for Joanne. We expected a wheelchair that was in decent condition. What we received blew us away. What seemed to be a brand-new chair and a brand-new cushion were more than we could have ever hoped for. I enclosed a picture so you can see the joy on Joanne‘s face. That is not a smile I get to see very often.

Thank you for all you do for people in need,
Dina

REquipment is having an amazing impact throughout Massachusetts, due to your donations of equipment and dollars, your trust, your referrals, and your advocacy.

Let's keep stories like Joanne's going and going... please use this link to tell your lawmakers why you love us: tinyurl.com/REQadvocacy

Thank you for caring so well for your neighbors.

UCP of Western Massachusetts
Stavros Center For Independent Living
AdLib Center for Independent Living
Center For Living And Working, Inc
Northeast Independent Living Program
CORD - Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled
Disability Resource Center
SCIL, Southeast Center for Independent Living
Independence Associates

02/12/2026

REquipment is compiling program stories from the districts of every member of the Massachusetts House Ways and Means Committee.

It's not hard to do.

The REquipment program is woven into nearly every Massachusetts community, serving children, seniors, veterans, caregivers, parents, teachers, and health care providers.

The program is needed now more than ever: free, gently used, durable medical equipment and assistive technology without provider hoops and hurdles. No prescription necessary. If you are a Massachusetts resident, you qualify.

Last year, one-third of the devices REquipment provided went to western Mass, one-third to central Mass, and one-third to eastern Mass. The program is truly statewide.

We can keep this essential source of gently used equipment if lawmakers hear from their constituents. Please take two minutes to contact them using this link:

tinyurl.com/REQadvocacy.

Enter your address and edit or use the letter that will auto-send to your lawmakers. It's that easy.

UCP of Western Massachusetts
Stavros Center For Independent Living
AdLib Center for Independent Living
Center For Living And Working, Inc
Northeast Independent Living Program
CORD - Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled
Disability Resource Center
SCIL, Southeast Center for Independent Living
Independence Associates

02/11/2026

Why does Massachusetts need the REquipment reuse program?

Because a little boy with multiple disabilities needed a tricycle in Everett. Serendipity! REquipment had the exact size and model his physical therapist had recommended.

Today, the Joint Committee on Ways and Means is considering the Governor's Budget proposal for FY27. This is an especially tough budget year. If the legislature does not support the $500,000 earmark that provides level funding for REquipment, the program will suffer a 35.7% cut.

Your donations of equipment and dollars, your referrals, and your stories and testimonials keep this essential program going. Every success story is yours. Acting together, we can keep sharing them.

Please contact your state legislators at tinyurl.com/REQadvocacy

Tell them why you love REquipement. There is a draft email to use or edit. This tool takes just a moment.

Thank you for all that you do!



UCP of Western Massachusetts
Stavros Center For Independent Living
AdLib Center for Independent Living
Center For Living And Working, Inc
Northeast Independent Living Program
CORD - Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled
Disability Resource Center
SCIL, Southeast Center for Independent Living
Independence Associates

02/10/2026

"You gave me my DIGNITY back!"
"You helped save my mom's life!"
"BEST PROGRAM EVAHHHHH!!!!”
"Thank you for existing!"

Your messages to REquipment are clear. Now, MA state lawmakers need to hear them! There's never been a more important Testimonial Tuesday.

The legislature is moving fast this year to create a FY27 budget, and it's the biggest threat REquipment has yet faced. Cuts to health care on the federal level are putting extraordinary pressure on the state. The message we are hearing is that unless there is an overwhelming flood of support for REquipment, we will not get the $500,000 we need in the legislature for level funding; this is an unsustainable 35.7% cut in FY2027 (which begins July 1, 2026).

Please use this link to tell them why you love us: tinyurl.com/REQadvocacy

There, you simply enter your address and email, and a draft letter is presented that can be automatically sent to your lawmakers. Use it or edit it or write your own. Your name and the names of your lawmakers will be automatically added. The process takes two minutes. There is also a call script to make calls and a button that calls lawmakers' offices.

Thank you to our beloved reuse community for keeping this program going in so many ways.

UCP of Western Massachusetts
Stavros Center For Independent Living
AdLib Center for Independent Living
Center For Living And Working, Inc
Northeast Independent Living Program
CORD - Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled
Disability Resource Center
SCIL, Southeast Center for Independent Living
Independence Associates

02/09/2026

Have you ever donated durable home medical or assistive technology devices to REquipment? Requested a device you needed? Referred a family member, friend, client, or neighbor?

Tell your state legislators you love us!

On Wednesday, February 11th, the Joint Committee on Ways and Means is holding a hearing to consider the Governor's Budget proposal for Fiscal Year 2027. The Legislature will need to support an earmark of $500,000 for REquipment to level-fund the program. Without it, the program will suffer a 35.7% cut that is unsustainable.

Show your support for the REquipment reuse program. Contact your state lawmakers today.

Tell them they must protect REquipment from this devastating budget cut.

If you have a personal story to share, terrific, but it's not necessary.

What matters is that they hear from each of us, in every corner of the state, who has been touched by this program.

Access to free, timely, gently used equipment has transformed lives across the Commonwealth, and REquipment is needed now more than ever.

Contacting your lawmakers is swift and easy at tinyurl.com/REQadvocacy.

Your voice matters. Thank you for taking action to keep REquipment beyond June 30th, 2026 (the end of the current fiscal year).

Thank you for all that you do to make REquipment's success stories possible.

UCP of Western Massachusetts
Stavros Center For Independent Living
AdLib Center for Independent Living
Center For Living And Working, Inc
Northeast Independent Living Program
CORD - Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled
Disability Resource Center
SCIL, Southeast Center for Independent Living
Independence Associates

02/05/2026

Now available - magnifiers! Free to MA residents in the REquipment inventory.

Hand-held, desktop, and even a hands-free visor magnifier are currently available (until they're gone).

Check out tinyurl.com/REQmags to browse REquipment's magnifiers.

All are free to pick up in W. Springfield; some may be shipped for $20. All may be bundled with a request for durable medical equipment and delivered at no extra charge.

REquipment is a source of no-cost, gently used, durable medical equipment and assistive technology in Massachusetts.

Learn more at DMEreuse.org.

UCP of Western Massachusetts
Stavros Center For Independent Living
AdLib Center for Independent Living
Center For Living And Working, Inc
Northeast Independent Living Program
CORD - Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled
Disability Resource Center
SCIL, Southeast Center for Independent Living
Independence Associates

02/04/2026

Happy Why REquipment Wednesday, the day we share an example of why the REquipment reuse program is vital to Massachusetts residents with disabilities, seniors, families, and others.

In September, REquipment heard from a son frustrated with his dad.

"Stubborn," he wrote. "[Dad] retired August 31, and was able to park at the door and manage in the office with trekking poles, risk of falling on any non-flat surface."

REquipment provided a free Drive manual wheelchair.

Son paid $20 for delivery and made a $10 donation to the program.

Dad filled out the satisfaction survey: "The wheelchair was just what I needed. Helpful inside and out. When I go for MRI, no worries about chair availability or transport by staff. Thank you!"

Sometimes we all need a little push.

Learn more about the durable medical equipment (DME) and assistive technology (AT) reuse program serving Massachusetts.

Visit DMEreuse.org

UCP of Western Massachusetts
Stavros Center For Independent Living
AdLib Center for Independent Living
Center For Living And Working, Inc
Northeast Independent Living Program
CORD - Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled
Disability Resource Center
SCIL, Southeast Center for Independent Living
Independence Associates