WheelPad was thrilled to be announced as one of the twenty-five awardees for the third competitive round of the Climate Catalyst Innovation Fund by the Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD).
The Climate Catalyst Innovation Fund awardees are selected by an outside panel of experts, and are based on demonstrating a mix of innovation, equity, replicability, collaboration, resilience, leverage, and meeting climate and energy goals.
WheelPad will use this award to help fund the design of a new product with increasing demand, an accessible modular bathroom called the BathPAD, which will allow for existing homes to add an accessible bathroom more easily than with a full renovation. It's an honor to be chosen alongside the other 24 nominees all across Vermont.
Read the full news release from the Vermont Council on Rural Development here.
The Vermont Council on Rural Development (VCRD) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the support of the locally-defined progress of Vermont's rural communities. VCRD is a dynamic partnership of federal, state, local, nonprofit and private partners. Actively non-partisan with an established reputation for community-based facilitation, VCRD is uniquely positioned to sponsor and coordinate collaborative efforts across governmental and organizational categories concerned with policy questions of rural importance. The organization has successfully completed over 90 community visits, resulting in locally defined projects like new childcare centers, wastewater infrastructure, and downtown redevelopments.