Tighten the Drag Foundation Inc

1) Corporate sponsorship of individuals and event funding to allow ongoing specialized activity based exercise therapy and training for those who have suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury leaving them paralyzed.
2) Raising awareness about the possibilities of recovery so that medical personnel change their perspective on advising newly injured that they will "never" walk again. There is too much evidence that it is possible naturally with intense training following injury. The success rate is tainted due to the number of injured who never have the chance to recover due to lack of funding for therapies costing in excess of $100 per hour or upwards of $50,000 a year.
3) Sponsorships for Adaptive Sporting activities that stimulate the mind, spirit and body allowing for a more productive outlook on the future.
4) Acknowledgement and encouragement for family Caregivers working around the clock without compensation to keep them from Caregiver burn out by providing hope of recovery for their loved one. The road ahead must have a light at the end of the tunnel to work towards, not just for the injured but for every family member affected by their accident.

1) Raising awareness through events that we host. Awareness creates support.
2) Being active on social media, front and center for public relations opportunities, promoting the stories of our Injured and letting the public know how the resources we provide enable them to have a better quality of life.
3) Soliciting companies for support and networking whenever possible with all the resources available to us.
4) Grants and donations from businesses that offer them.
5) Grass roots marketing by Volunteers who grow a caring community of supporters. One by one.

1) We continue to increase our reach to bring in more supporters at our annual events that are continuing to grow.
2) We continue to increase awareness to our cause through social media marketing.
3) We continue to include our Injured Scholarship Recipients in our events to show our supporters that they are making a difference. There's no greater advertising than to have someone who has benefited from your support to testify to that.
4) We continue to be more involved in events, activities that will help us draw more support.

We have continued to double our Scholarship funding year to year working hard to reduce any overhead by achieving sponsorship dollars to cover costs. We started as a very small group of people on a mission to help others to supporting as many Injured as we can. Our youngest injured is three years old now and our organization was instrumental in affording him the ability to go to therapy after a year of non existent exercise and no progress after injury. He is now excelling in therapy with movement ocurring with great hope of recovery. We know it is possible if Injured and their families have access to the right therapy and funding to cover it.