About Us

Scott Gunderson, Doug Fendry, Bill Alber, Ken Heim, Phil Maier, Steve Spaeni, Steve D'Orazio, Greg Curless, Ray Anderson, Chad Hermanson & Monica Kamal (AAW team members not shown: Barb Wolf & Tom Thoresen)

Photo Credit: David Wood

Chad ice fishing

AAW at the 25 year anniversary of ADA at the Overture in Madison

Grandpa playing with grandchild

DCPF/AAW at a pheasant hunt Veterans & Others with Physical Disabilities at Smiths Pheasant Crest

student at Madison College - AAW is there for Disability awareness

Chad, AAW team member, volunteers as a guide for the 2015 hunt for Veterans and others with physical disabilities. AAW has a variety of fundraisers to acquire these chairs and trailers for use in Dane County.

at Madison College - AAW is there for Disability awareness - Scott, Ray and Monica

Family Walk in the Marsh

Grandpa playing at the park and keeping up with his grand daughter

Students at North Bristol using the chair and learning about it

AAW volunteers at OSC to raise funds for another chair

enjoying a campfire with family

AAW at the Veterans' resource fair in Janesville

Using the chair to teach hunter safety at OSC

teaching students how to use the chair

Many ways to use the chair

Thank you to the Reeve Foundation for the 2nd chair

Hicks Fishing

Walking with Dad in the woods

Chad ice fishing

AAW at the 25 year anniversary of ADA at the Overture in Madison

Grandpa playing with grandchild

DCPF/AAW at a pheasant hunt Veterans & Others with Physical Disabilities at Smiths Pheasant Crest

student at Madison College - AAW is there for Disability awareness

at Madison College - AAW is there for Disability awareness - Scott, Ray and Monica

Family Walk in the Marsh

Grandpa playing at the park and keeping up with his grand daughter

Students at North Bristol using the chair and learning about it

AAW volunteers at OSC to raise funds for another chair

enjoying a campfire with family

AAW at the Veterans' resource fair in Janesville

Using the chair to teach hunter safety at OSC

teaching students how to use the chair

Many ways to use the chair

Thank you to the Reeve Foundation for the 2nd chair

Timeline:

2013 - A group of individuals from Dane County discussed the idea of outdoors access and how to help individuals with mobility issues.

2014 - Dane County Pheasants Forever (DCPF) welcomed Access Ability Wisconsin under its nonprofit status as an initiative.

2017 - AAW became a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization in May.

AAW's objective is to provide recreational opportunities for physically challenged people, including wheelchair users, who want to enjoy the Wisconsin outdoors.

Outdoor wheelchairs with a trailer (either a single or event) are available for all ages and those with temporary or permanent mobility issues. Our clients have been daily wheelchair users, those with walking difficulties, kids, and adults from 21 to 101.

S0 that anyone with a physical disability may have access an outdoor wheelchair (OWC) as needed, we work with -

Individuals and organizations to use our all-terrain (OWC) for their outdoor adventures; and
Community organizations to host the outdoor wheelchairs with a trailer. (See AAW's Hosting - Partnering page.)

GOALS

Initial: We have achieved our initial goal of acquiring "one" chair for Dane County in 2014.

Long Term: Our goal is to have at least one all-terrain outdoor wheelchair in the 72 Wisconsin counties.

Thanks to fundraising, grants awarded (see our "Thank You" page), and community support, availability of the equipment expands across the state. (See Map for equipment locations.)

Access Ability Wisconsin™

About Us

Timeline:

AAW's objective is to provide recreational opportunities for physically challenged people, including wheelchair users, who want to enjoy the Wisconsin outdoors.

Outdoor wheelchairs with a trailer (either a single or event) are available for all ages and those with temporary or permanent mobility issues. Our clients have been daily wheelchair users, those with walking difficulties, kids, and adults from 21 to 101.

S0 that anyone with a physical disability may have access an outdoor wheelchair (OWC) as needed, we work with -

Individuals and organizations to use our all-terrain (OWC) for their outdoor adventures; and

Community organizations to host the outdoor wheelchairs with a trailer. (See AAW's Hosting - Partnering page.)

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GOALS

Initial: We have achieved our initial goal of acquiring "one" chair for Dane County in 2014.

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Long Term:​ Our goal is to have at least one all-terrain outdoor wheelchair in the 72 Wisconsin counties.

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Thanks to fundraising, grants awarded (see our "Thank You" page), and community support, availability of the equipment expands across the state. (See Map for equipment locations.)

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AAW volunteers at OSC

Long Term: Our goal is to have at least one all-terrain outdoor wheelchair in the 72 Wisconsin counties.