Thank You, Western Digital and WD Foundation

Today we’d like to thank the WD Foundation for its recent grant of $3,000 to Imagine! for Family Support Grants in Boulder County.

The Western Digital Charitable Foundation, or the “WD Foundation”, a California nonprofit benefit corporation, was created in 1997 to support Western Digital’s philanthropic activities that support economic, social, educational, and health needs in their regional business communities within the United States. As such, WD Foundation grants are directed toward nonprofit organizations in Orange, Santa Clara and Alameda Counties in California, and Boulder County, Colorado.

Family Support Grants help pay for the extraordinary costs of caring for a family member who has a developmental disability. Funds may be used to help pay for respite care, professional services, medical and dental senses, transportation, assistive technology, home modifications, and parent and sibling support.

Anyone who has a family member with a developmental disability knows how difficult it can be to pay for some of these expenses, and these grants can make a huge difference.

As one family told us:

“This grant will help ease the financial stress and burden that comes with having a special needs child. It helps offset costs that insurance does not cover. Each year it seems that insurance covers less to help our child function in the world. We have dealt with that by cutting down on therapies, respite, and recreation activities. This grant helps us keep some of those things in place.”

This is not the first time Western Digital has provided generous support to families in Boulder County who have children with developmental disabilities. Last year, they provided a $10,000 grant toward Family Support Grants, and before that, they donated six hard drives to Imagine!’s SmartHomes.

Thank you, Western Digital and the WD Foundation, for your support of families and their children with intellectual disabilities.