Your Services and Funds Needed to Help Us Move Forward

We are looking forward to support from the paratransit community and their friends locally and nationally to continue working on their behalf. Please donate.  See link below.

Persons who took our survey at the Disability Pride Parade voted overwhelmingly for us to remain in business and not dissolve, but most of them forgot to donate funds or join and pay dues, or volunteer their services or equipment or supplies.  

We are self-funded.  

We need your help now!

We seek donations, donors and volunteers:  We need funds; persons to make calls, email, do mailings, attend meetings, advocate with their elected officials on accessibility and paratransit or wheelchair taxis, and provide green research on use of nanotechnology and solar energy in the 
solar-powered car and Green Paratransit. 

We need computers, 4 PCs, 4 laptops), 1 printer, printer paper, copy paper, mailing supplies, postage, accessible meeting space, accessible space for 1 fax machine, 1 copier, 2 hotspots, 2 webcams, 2 wireless adapters for volunteers to use who help us raise funds, do research,  promote our services, do community outreach, assist persons who are disabled, youth, seniors and Boomers with forms and applications, and do information and referral.

To donate to our cause:

There are 4 ways to donate funds to us online: 

1. Through the Carson's Community Event Day link - Expired- next time will be in September -November 2013. They will mail a $400 discount book for each $5 donation. You can use the coupons to shop online or in any Bon Ton store (Carson's, PARISIAN, Bon Ton, Herberger, et al)  Go to this link:       http://bit.ly/RfbCeh Click here to donate to BNICEH for  IMPRUVE  
2. If you already have PayPal, gift us with a donation through PayPal at  www.paypal.com under Black Network In Children's Emotional Health go to bniceh@yahoo.com
3. If you do not have PayPal, then donate at PayItSquare under BNICEH-IMPRUVE (least desirable option due to fees that must be paid to both PayitSquare  and PayPal at www.payitsquare.com 
4. Individual donations can be made to specific persons or for specific persons for trip to DC, too May 2013 such as:  

Don't forget us!

Green Think Tank Teleconference Sat. Sept. 25, 2010

Next teleconference Sat. Sept. 25 3-3:45 pm CST 712-432-6131 PIN 100453# We discuss and develop workgroup projects that make lives of persons who are disabled more sustainable or provide green jobs or businesses. greenthinktank@comcast.net Moderated by Dr. Ayo Maat. Call me Maat (mah as in Mama and ott as in otter)

Top Ten Green Needs of persons who are disabled: 1. Green sustainable living, income, healthcare, employment 2. Funding of Sustainable projects, including the Soular Car Project and Green Paratransit by private entities preferably 3. Ownership of Green Paratransit 4. Accessible streets in every major city 5. Accessible restrooms and entrances in public buildings with privacy in resttoom stalls and entrances without barriers 6. Accessible green housing cooperatives 7. More political candidates and elected officials who are disabled and visible 8. Carbon-free, chemical-free cosmetics, health supplies 9. Green housing maintenance, lawn maintenance, landscaping, and pest control 10. Public awareness, training of public servants, doctors, media reps that handicapped and wheelchair-bound are not proper descriptions for persons who are disabled. Determine feasibility and recommend funding of green projects that persons who are disabled control singly, as a group, or with persons who are non-disabled. Soular Car Project is a project of the Green Paratransit Think Tank. Members are encouraged to recommend funding for green product ideas, product testing for persons who are disabled and seniors. Some product ideas already proposed are: rider-owned Green Paratransit, solar-powered 4-passemger wheelchair, solar-powered wheelchairs, solar-powered kitchen appliances and durable medical equipment, green housing coops, accessible green resource training centers with overnight facilities, accessible veganic urban farms, and green auto dealerships and insurance agencies run as home-based businesses, green repair shops, medical info and final arrangements (after death), on flash drive wrist bracelets, and evening, holiday and weekend solar-powered wheelchair repair and rental franchises. Consideration is given for Baby Boomers may develop age-related disability in the future. Please RSVP to teleconference at greenthinktank@comcast.net and visit the site http://www.greenthinktankfordisabilitycommunity.blogspot.com. Comments, design ideas, funding ideas, grantwriters, inventors, product developers, persons who are disabled, ideas for adaptive technology always welcome.

Green Paratransit Think Tank To Work with Engineer to Test Soular Car

Soular Car test postponed. TBA.
However, see article on Green Plan for Paratransit at gapersblock.com/mechanic/2010/02/08

Douglas Larson, mechanical engineer, announced November 28, 2009 that he will be ready in January 2010 for first testing by a person (or persons) who is/are disabled of the solar-powered neighborhood car project called "Soular Car."


Larson has now postponed the test for a variety of reasons, weather conditions that impact persons who use motorized chairs being one of them. Plans are to work with Alderman Moore to get a pilot project off the ground ASAP.

He has invited Dr. Ayo Maat and those she refers from IMPRUVE (Independent Movement of Riders for Unity, Vehicles, Equality) or Green Think Tank for the Disability Community to be among the first testers.

First test is to determine:

1. If persons who are disabled can transfer in and out of their wheelchairs to the
Soular Car (manufactured by Cruise Car Inc.)

2. If persons who are disabled can transfer in and out of the Soular Car to the
motorized carts provided at local stores for shopping

3. How the installed covers hold up that trap solar energy to keep the vehicle warm

4. How the vehicle holds up in Chicago winter weather



Later tests will determine:

5. Which is best: foam-in-place permanent back supports or portable back supports?

6. Is it more feasible to begin with rentals than outright purchases

7. How can this technology be used in larger passenger vans for a paratransit
fleet?

8. Can the ordinance requiring doors be amended to exclude them in favor of velcro
enclosure for persons who are disabled and transfering from motorized
wheelchairs?

Douglas Larson wants to have his Soular Car project on display in May 2009 at the Green Fest in Chicago's Navy Pier