Ramp Up Marathon County Completes First Ramp Build of the Season

Over a few cold and blustery early April days, a team of intrepid Ramp Up Marathon County volunteers, including a contingent from Trinity Lutheran Church, worked diligently to complete their first ramp of the 2016 building season. Of course work actually began a couple months ago with the application review, site visit, construction design and planning.

Ramp Up Leadership Team members John Ohnstad and Bill Pogge captured the process in photos. Enjoy!

Ramp Up Marathon County Is Taking Applications for 2016 Building Season

Ramp Up Marathon County is now accepting applications for the 2016 building season. The group works to help lower-income Marathon County residents with mobility issues remain in their own homes by donating time to design, plan and build wheelchair ramps and low-rise long-tread steps, as well as raise the money to cover the cost of materials. 

Referrals, screenings, and application processing is handled through the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Central Wisconsin and Midstate Independent Living Consultants. All other work is donated by skilled and highly dedicated volunteers. Several Marathon County based foundations, businesses and individuals support the work through donations to cover materials costs.

For more information or to find out if you are eligible, contact a Resource Specialist at the Aging and Disability Resource Center, 715-261-6070, or Nancy Keller at Midstate Independent Living Consultants, Inc., 800-382-8484 extension 211. Ramp Up Marathon County is a program of Midstate Independent Living Consultants, Inc.

Happy Holidays from Ramp Up Marathon County!

From all of us at Ramp Up Marathon County, we wish you and yours a beautiful holiday season filled with joy and peace.

Many Thanks to Our Funders and Volunteers!

Ramp Up Marathon County is run by volunteers. While there are no paid staff there is a growing group of caring and talented individuals dedicated to helping people those with financial need and mobility issues in Marathon County gain safe entry access to their homes. These people donate untold hours to review applications, select projects that fit all the criteria, estimate costs and manage budgets, write grant applications, plan, design and build projects and more.

But the giving doesn't stop there.

We also have some very generous organizations and individuals who donate funds to cover the costs of materials to build ramps and low-rise, long-tread steps. The community heroes include the B.A. and Esther Greenheck Foundation, the Aspirus Health Foundation and Thrivent Financial Services. Several individuals have also donated funds to help our projects along.

No one of us could do all this on our own, but together, we pool our resources and work together to make our community a little safer for our neighbors in the greatest need.

Thank you to all our funders and volunteers!!