The Texas Ramp Project provides free wheelchair ramps for low-income older adults and others with disabilities identified by local health care providers. The ramps are built by all-volunteer crews and follow ADA guidelines.
The Texas Ramp Project has crews across Texas, with many living and located in the North Texas Region (NTX). Since its founding in 1985, TRP has provided nearly 27,292 ramps to low-income people across the state who need a ramp and can’t afford it. These ramps, if laid end-to-end, would extend for 139 miles.
In 2023, volunteers built over 2,400 ramps across the state of Texas and 534 for our neighbors in the NTX region. A ramp built with volunteer labor costs about $1,000. Most ramps are for older adults.
With a new ramp, clients gain safe access, independence, improved quality of life, and easier exit in a fire or other emergency. Caregivers are relieved of physical labor, and elderly spouses are at less risk assisting their loved one on steps. The ramps also allow older adults to age safely in their own home.
We also welcome volunteers who would like to build ramps. Please go to www.texasramps.org and click on “Volunteer!”
The Texas Ramp Project's mission is to create and sustain local organizations in Texas to build free wheelchair ramps for low-income older adults and others with disabilities. Since incorporating in 2006, the Texas Ramp Project has set up local organizations in over 40 Texas regions. The ramps are built by all-volunteer crews. Clients are accepted without regard to age, gender, religion, race or ethnicity. The ramps are built following ADA guidelines and are safe, strong and durable. Our vision is that no one in Texas should go without a ramp because they cannot afford it.
TRP's current needs are twofold. Funding is needed to support ramp construction, and volunteers are needed to serve as region coordinators, surveyors, team leaders and build crews. TRP also needs volunteers who are interested in helping with the critical back-office, administrative projects, including administrative, bookkeeping, accounting, technology and IT, writing and editing, public relations, fundraising, financial management, and other professional skills that can help shepherd a growing nonprofit toward maturity.
Ramps are built without regard to age, gender, religion, race or ethnicity.
Organization name
Texas Ramp Project
Causes
Housing, Shelter & Homelessness
Operating Budget
$1,000,000 - $2,999,999
Counties Served
Dallas, Tarrant, Denton, Collin, Rockwall, Kaufman, Wise, Cooke, Navarro, Montague, Fannin, Hunt, Parker, Johnson, Grayson, Erath, Hood, Ellis
BIPOC Leadership
Neither/None
Address
P.O. Box 832065