51: A Collaborative Community Nonprofit Helps Individuals with PD Dance To Their Heart's Content with Rebecca Bliss and Susan Saenger

Today we continue our nonprofit highlights with Rebecca Bliss and Susan Saenger.  We will learn more about their unique nonprofit business model and set up. They offer free PD exercise classes in Durham, NC through the Parkinson’s Movement Initiative, which operates under the American Dance Festival.  With this setup they are able to provide free classes to their community, which has been really effective for their mission of improving access to care.  It is a collaborative model where the parent organization greatly helps with outreach and other administrative challenges that smaller groups face.  Our guests discuss their time commitment as they both work full time outside of the program.  They operate under grant funding and talk about the outcomes used for funding, as well as how a therapist interested in working in the community like this could get started.

Learn more about their clases at https://www.americandancefestival.org/community/parkinsons-movement-initiative/

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