<div><strong>Don’t Let Them Lose Their Place to Belong</strong>
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<div>For many adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities, Evermore is not just a place to go.
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<div>It is where they have friends.
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<div>It is where they feel understood.
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<div>It is where they are known by name.
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<div>It is where they have built confidence, routine, independence, and community.
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<div>And now, many of them are at risk of losing access to it.
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<div>Not because they failed.
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<div>Not because Evermore failed them.
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<div>Not because this community stopped mattering.
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<div>But because the funding they rely on may no longer be available for them to access the public, community-based space they chose.
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<div><strong>Why This Matters</strong>
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<div>When a community disappears, isolation can happen quickly.
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<div>For many adults with disabilities, friendships and routines depend on access, transportation, support, and funding. When one piece changes, their world can become smaller almost overnight.
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<div>A person can lose their routine.
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<div>Then their friendships.
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<div>Then their confidence.
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<div>Then their connection to the world around them.
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<div><strong>Evermore was created to help prevent that.</strong>
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<div>Evermore is a public, community-based studio where adults of all abilities come together through creativity, social connection, personal growth, shared interests, and meaningful experiences.
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<div>It is not just about keeping people busy. It is about helping people build real lives, real friendships, and real community.
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<div><strong>Our Why</strong>
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<div>Evermore is autistic-led and mission-driven, built by people with deep personal and professional roots in the disability community.
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<div>Evermore’s founder is autistic and understands what it feels like to be placed in spaces that do not fit — to be misunderstood, underestimated, or expected to belong in systems that were not built with neurodivergent people in mind.
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<div>The Evermore team also brings deeply personal experience as parents, siblings, relatives, advocates, and professionals who have spent years navigating the disability world alongside their children, siblings, and loved ones.
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<div>They know how hard families fight for access.
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<div>They know how quickly isolation can happen.
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<div>They know how limited choices can become.
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<div>They know that people with disabilities deserve more than programs, placements, and systems that decide where they belong.
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<div><strong>Evermore was built to be different.</strong>
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<div>Not a program.
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<div>Not a placement.
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<div>Not an institution.
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<div>A community.
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<div>A place where people of all abilities can be seen, included, and valued as whole human beings.
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<div><strong>What This Fund Will Do</strong>
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<div>We created the Evermore Access Scholarship Fund through Positive Impact Alliances, a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
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<div>Funds raised will help provide scholarship assistance for individuals who are at risk of losing access to Evermore due to funding barriers.
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<div><strong>Your donation will help:</strong>
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<div>Cover Evermore membership costs for individuals who can no longer use DDD funding
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<div>Keep members connected to the community they chose
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<div>Support families during funding transitions, denials, appeals, or delays
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<div>Prevent adults with disabilities from being pushed back into isolation
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<div>Protect choice, dignity, and belonging
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<div><strong>Your Impact</strong>
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<div>Every donation helps keep someone connected.
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<div>$25 helps cover community access.
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<div>$100 helps cover meaningful experiences and connection.
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<div>$250 helps support monthly memberships.
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<div>$550 helps provide a core monthly scholarship.
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<div>$1,100+ can help keep a members connected for a full month.
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<div><strong>This is bigger than one business.</strong>
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<div>This is about protecting the right of adults with disabilities to choose community, build friendships, and belong in public spaces.
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<div><strong>Help Us Keep the Door Open to All Abilities</strong>
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<div>If you believe people with disabilities deserve more than limited choices, please donate.
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<div>If you believe the community should not disappear because funding changes, please donate.
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<div>If you believe belonging should not only be available to those who can afford it, please stand with us.
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<div>Please donate and share this campaign.
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<div>Together, we can help keep Evermore members connected to the community they chose.
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<div>This is not about saving a business.
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<div>It is about making sure people do not lose their place to belong.
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<div>Adults with disabilities are at risk of losing access to Evermore, a public community studio where they have built friendships, routines, confidence, and belonging. The Evermore Access Scholarship Fund helps cover membership costs so members can stay connected to the community they chose.
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Joanne Curcio

Annamarie DePaola

Don’t Let Them Lose Their Place to Belong

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