ABOUT
Care without barriers — for every ability, every income.
To provide specialized rehabilitation, adaptive fitness, and wellness to people with neurologic conditions or disabilities, regardless of ability to pay — because every body deserves to rise.
OUR MISSION
Why we exist.
Every individual deserves to move, function, and live at their fullest potential — regardless of their diagnosis, disability, identity, or ability to pay.
The Transcend Project was founded on that belief. Through specialized, evidence-based rehabilitation, adaptive fitness, and wellness services — and a model built to remove financial barriers — we meet every patient where they are so that we may help them rise.
We are pre-launch, in the process of building the infrastructure, partnerships, and funding that will make this possible. Every step we take is guided by the communities we intend to serve.
OUR VISION
The world we're building toward.
"A world where access to care and opportunity is a right, not a privilege — where every person can live their fullest life, unbounded by condition or income, and supported by their community."
OUR STORY
Where it started.
For the person recovering from a stroke who is told their insurance will only cover a few more visits. For the young adult with cerebral palsy who cannot find a single clinic equipped for their needs. For the veteran with a traumatic brain injury who falls through the cracks of a system not built for the complexity of their condition.
These are not edge cases. One in three adults with disabilities reports unmet healthcare needs due to cost. Specialized neurological rehabilitation is scarce, expensive, and structurally inaccessible — insurance reimbursement does not cover what this care actually costs to deliver, so the people with the most complex conditions are pushed to the margins of a system that was never designed for them.
The Transcend Project was founded to change that — not by adjusting the existing model, but by replacing it. As a nonprofit, we close the reimbursement gap with philanthropic support so that clinical excellence and accessibility can coexist. As a community organization rooted in Northern Colorado, we partner with local agencies, foundations, and the disability community itself to shape what we build — because the people this system has failed deserve to lead the work of fixing it.
Every body deserves to rise — and we mean every.
OUR MODEL
Three commitments.
Sustainable Access
A sliding fee scale with no income-based exclusions means the financial barrier stops at our door. We accept Medicaid and Medicare across all service lines and pursue philanthropic funding to close the reimbursement gap that the current healthcare system leaves open. Cost is never a reason to go without care.
Community Powered
The Transcend Project was built with, not for, the communities we serve. We operate in formal partnership with Colorado's Division of Vocational Rehabilitation, the City of Fort Collins ARO program, and Northern Colorado's philanthropic community. We belong to this place.
Technology Forward
AI-assisted, HIPAA-compliant clinical documentation frees our clinicians from administrative overhead so they can do the work they trained for — focused, unhurried, high-depth care. Technology serves the clinician so the clinician can serve the patient.
FOUNDING BOARD
The people building this.
Our founding board brings together clinical expertise, financial stewardship, operational experience, and deep community roots.
Andrew Tran, PT, DPT, NCS, CSCS
Founder & Executive Director
Bernadette Gates
Board Chair
Andy Nguyen
Vice Chair, Operations & Technology
Frances Yule, MBA
Treasurer
Anna Lee McGregor
Secretary
Megan Aranow
Director at Large
LEGAL STATUS
501(c)(3) status pending.
The Transcend Project is a Colorado nonprofit corporation. Our application for federal 501(c)(3) recognition is pending IRS determination. We are pursuing fiscal sponsorship in the interim so that founding gifts may qualify for charitable deductions — reach out at hello@thetranscendproject.org for current status.