{"id":2991,"date":"2025-10-14T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2991\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T14:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T14:58:09","slug":"texas-ramp-project-celebrating-40-years-of-building-wheelchair-ramps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/2991\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Ramp Project celebrating 40 years of building wheelchair ramps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/texasramps.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Ramp Project<\/a>, which builds free wheelchair ramps for those in need across the state, is celebrating its 40th anniversary, according to a Sept. 15 news release.<\/p>\n<p>Over its 40 years, the nonprofit has built ramps for over 30,000 recipients with the help of over 3,500 volunteers, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>Some context<\/p>\n<p>The organization began in 1985 as the Dallas Ramp Project before being incorporated as the Texas Ramp Project in 2006, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>Texas Ramp Project provides the ramps to recipients at no cost, according to the news release. Most ramps cost between $800-$900 to build.<\/p>\n<p>What else?<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Texas Ramp Project built 2,727 ramps in 145 counties, according to its Sept. 1 fact sheet. To get a ramp, recipients <a href=\"https:\/\/texasramps.org\/request-a-ramp\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">must be referred<\/a> by a health care provider or qualified organization via the nonprofit\u2019s website.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of note<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Generosity grows when shared, and it becomes the bridge that lifts others toward hope and independence,\u201d Texas Ramp Project President Keith Henderson said via news release. \u201cThe generosity and commitment of the Texas Ramp Project\u2019s volunteers, donors and sponsors across Texas make every wheelchair ramp another step toward freedom possible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Before you go<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the nonprofit, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/texasramps.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/texasramps.org<\/a>.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Ramp Project, which builds free wheelchair ramps for those in need across the state, is celebrating its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3493,2097,27,29,28,3494],"class_list":{"0":"post-2991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-anniversary","9":"tag-nonprofit","10":"tag-texas","11":"tag-texas-headlines","12":"tag-texas-news","13":"tag-wheelchair-ramps"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}