Envisioning Access has always been guided by one simple belief: that every living being deserves safety, dignity, and care.
Today, we want to share some meaningful updates with you—changes that reflect not a departure from that belief, but a reaffirmation of it.
A Difficult Decision
In recent years, we explored how emerging technologies might expand independence for people living with physical disabilities. That work taught us so much, and we’re deeply grateful to everyone—many of you included—who helped us learn, build partnerships, create collaborations, and test promising ideas along the way.
This year, the Board of Directors carefully reviewed our financial position, and it became clear that the responsible financial path forward is to refocus our resources on caring for the extraordinary monkeys who spent their lives helping others. Our monkeys are all now reaching their senior years, and ensuring they receive the lifetime of safety, enrichment, medical care, and dignity they’ve earned requires our dedicated financial commitment for the next few years. We concluded that we need to do more research into potential ways Envisioning Access could help to fund new means of supporting greater independence for those living with disabilities before we could meaningfully expand other parts of the program.
Our staff is now devoting their full time and expertise to that work. Our Board and a dedicated group of volunteers continue to carry accessibility and technology efforts forward, exploring what’s next for Envisioning Access. It wasn’t an easy decision, but it was the right one—a responsible financial step to ensure we can keep our promise to the monkeys who have given so much, for as long as they need us.
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