Bridging Lives Campaign - Matching Gift Opportunity

To celebrate our 10-Year Anniversary, we are launching a new program in 2026 – Bridging Lives: A Scholarship Program for Out-of-town Applicants. An anonymous grantor is promising a $500,000 match over three-years. For every dollar gifted, the donor will match $166,000 each year. Will you help us meet our goal for 2026?

10 years. 23,300-plus physical therapy sessions gifted, and more than a million robotic steps. Few people realize visions that exceed their dreams, and you have helped us make that happen. With our new Center for Neurorehabilitation, we have increased the number of clients we serve by 30% to an average of 77 clients per month. Clients depend on Bridging Bionics to provide ongoing access to exercise and physical therapy, which incorporates advanced technologies at no-cost. We remove barriers to access for this mostly economically disadvantaged demographic.

Since receiving national and global recognition with CNN Heroes in 2018, many individuals from outside our community have asked to visit us in Colorado and experience our mobility program. And now, with the launch of the Bridging Lives Campaign, we can do just that.

Every day our health depends on the simple act of physical mobility. We walk, run, move, and exercise. This basic activity strengthens our bodies and maintains optimized function as a result. Now imagine that you have lost that essential ability. Imagine if you were told you’d never walk or run again, exercise, or be able to enjoy life without chronic neurologic health complications.

At Bridging Bionics, we believe it is a fundamental human need for mobility impaired individuals to have affordable access to frequent, ongoing physical therapy to gain freedom of movement and maintain health - both physically and emotionally. A chronic neurological condition like spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, MS, or motor complications from a traumatic brain injury, stroke or Parkinson’s disease affects a person for life. This is why our program is designed to be affordable and accessible.

What is the Bridging Lives Program? It is our vision to offer our unique mobility program to qualifying individuals from out-of-town. Upon graduating from the Bridging Lives experience, we will provide the essential training and action plan for continued exercise in the home. All qualified applicants will have the opportunity to receive a matching grant to acquire equipment to be used at home. No-one will be turned away due to financial hardship, and that is made possible through funding from generous donors like you.

Your generosity helps our athletes maintain their health and live more fulfilling lives. Health insurance, Medicare and Medicaid do not cover this long-term, continuing care. It happens only with your help. We are where care continues. We need your support to launch the Bridging Lives Program.

With your gift, we can be a bridge to help individuals with neurological conditions maintain and regain mobility. Walk with us, and together we can bridge mobility, bridge community, and build better lives, one step at a time.