Did you know? The average lifetime cost of care for an individual with CP is $1.5 million. Education plays a big role in empowering people with CP to realize their full potential and ambitions. On March 15th 2018, our fourth Life Without Limits Gala will partially raise funds for a life-changing initiative: the Tanabe Education Bursary. […]
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Lower Mainland’s hardest working athletic duo and Guinness World Record contenders to have disability fund named in their honour
Media release November 1st, 2017 – Tonight, the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC (CPABC) will be re-naming their Equipment Assistive Devices Fund the “Jason and Rand Fund” in recognition of two of their members’ supersized athletic endeavours and hearts. Friends Jason Cole and Rand Surbey, who lives with cerebral palsy, met in 2011 through an […]
Repairing the World: Talmud Torah’s Ceremony of Giving
By Carrie Torrans If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now – WHEN ~ Pirkei Avot 1:14 On June 16, Cerebral Palsy Association of BC Executive Director Feri and I had the pleasure of going to Vancouver […]
A man who keeps on giving – Yoshi Tanabe and the Tanabe Bursary Story
By Dan Chalcraft Yoshi Tanabe is extremely proud to be the namesake of the Cerebral Palsy Association of BC’s Tanabe Bursary program! The program has supported close to a hundred students with cerebral palsy to attend post-secondary school in BC and reach their dreams. The Power of Education Yoshi believes that pursuing post-secondary education […]
Achieving Milestones – Conan Winkelmeyer
Achieving Milestones – Conan Winkelmeyer Every time 26-year old Conan Winkelmeyer has been awarded the Tanabe Bursary by the Cerebral Palsy Association of British Columbia (CPABC), it has allowed him to focus more on school and less on employment – and this has been reflected in his academic success. “I have received the bursary four times. […]
