| Building Paint Completion 2025 - 2024 |
Amount Funded: $3,000.00 |
| MARC strives to provide an environment which empowers its clients to live their best life. It offers a supported employment program, in which participants work at community job sites with the support of a job coach. The job coach is there to support the participant through their workday, which encompasses but is not limited to gentle reminders to stay on task and accomplishments. Its day services program ensures that participants have a sense of individuality as well as opportunities to grow their independence. Some of the ways clients spend their time are, talking with other clients and staff, playing games that focus on large motor skills. Other activities that are enjoyed are exploring wacky items to paint on Wednesdays, and on Fridays, clients enjoy an afternoon movie. Annually clients look forward to participating in is the End-of-Summer party and a Christmas party where they share the company of others as well as games and crafts. A yearly pontoon ride on Lake Mendota and a trip to the pumpkin patch are favorite activities to participate in. participants choose community outings to local establishments, where they can sit back and enjoy a coffee, a sweet treat, and conversation. MARC is always there to ensure that it can help in any way to make sure that our participants have a safe environment and are fulfilled. MARC wants to make sure that the participant’s day is as meaningful as possible. The best part of the program is to see the joy on participant’s face after they show a piece of artwork they created or after a song comes on the radio and you get a spur of the moment dance from a participant, this is why the services provided here are so very important. MARC is a nonprofit organization, most funds generated go to support participants through the programs it provides. The goal of MARC is to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all who come in for services. This leaves little revenue available to maintain or improve the building. The current MARC office space was built in 1996 and has had little or no building updating. Except for the building painting that was generously made possible by the grant that the Stoughton Community Foundation granted MARC Stoughton last year.
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| The estimated time we would expect for the project would be about three months. The positive impact would be the ability for our participants to enjoy more activities in the outdoors, such as our end of summer party, and invitation to the Ukulele players called the Yahara Strummers to come and play for the participants and of course sitting outside to have a snack and a cold cup of juice and watch the cars go by and waving community members as they go by our building. Our participants really love to be outside but at the moment we dont have a flat surface area which would make it harder for participants with mobility issue to walk around to our table area outside. With a larger and more leveled out space, our participants would have a much easier time getting around to join in the fun. MARC would also very much benefit from a covered area outside, some of our participants are very heat sensitive so a covered would be so much appreciated and allow for a longer period of enjoyment for our more heat sensitive participants. We have a number of participants that participate in Special Olympics, through that program we have participants that re really good basketball, bocce ball and bowling, just to name a few of their activities. With a portion of the funds requested we would absolutely love to put up a permanent basketball hoop, to give our participants the ability to shoot some hoops together. A permanent new swing would add just the right touch of relaxation to out outdoor gathering space. |
| Outdoor Space Improvement 2025 - 2024 |
Amount Funded: $13,500.00 |
| MARC strives to provide an environment which empowers its participants to live their best life. MARC offers a supported employment program as well as day services programming. Within the supported employment programming, it offers services, in which participants work at community job sites with the support of a job coach. The job coach is there to support the participant through their workday, which encompasses but is not limited to gentle reminders to stay on task and creates a sense of accomplishment. Its day services program ensures that participants have a sense of individuality as well as opportunities to grow their independence. Some of the activities offered to participants include talking with other clients and staff, playing games that focus on large motor skills, wacky items to paint on Wednesdays, and on Fridays clients enjoy an afternoon movie. Annually clients look forward to participating in the End-of-Summer party and a Christmas party where they share the company of others as well as fun games and crafts. A yearly pontoon ride on lake Mendota and a trip to the pumpkin patch are favorite activities to participate in. Participants have the opportunity to enjoy community outings to local establishments, where they can sit back and enjoy a coffee, a sweet treat, and conversation. MARC is always there to ensure that it can help in any way to make sure that our participants have a safe environment and are fulfilled. MARC wants to make sure that the participants’ day is as meaningful as possible. The best part of our day is to see the joy on participant’s face after they show a piece of artwork they created or after a song comes on the radio and you get a spur of the moment dance, this is why the services provided are so very important. MARC is a nonprofit organization, most funds generated go to support participants through the programs it provides. The goal of MARC is to create a welcoming and supportive environment for all who come in for services. This leaves little revenue available to maintain or improve the building. The current MARC office space was built in 1996 and has had little or no building updating. During its three-month closure, we officially opened our doors back up in June of 2020, we ensured that everyone came back safely. Marc was unable to hold our Annual Golf Fundraiser and Employee Awards Banquet, these events are especially important to our fundraising. This left us with little extra funds for current building and outd |
| The estimated time we would expect for the project would be about three months. The positive impact would be the ability for our participants to enjoy more activities in the outdoors, such as our end of summer party, and the Ukulele players called the Yahara Strummers to come and play for the participants outdoors and of course sitting outside to have a snack and a cold cup of juice to enjoy the cars going by and waving community members. Our participants really love to be outside but at the moment we dont have a flat surface area which would make it harder for participants with mobility issues to walk around to our table area outside. With a larger and more leveled out space, our participants would have a much easier time getting around to join in the fun. MARC would also very much benefit from a covered area outside, some of our participants are heat sensitive so a covered outdoor area would be so much appreciated to allow for a longer period of enjoyment for our more heat sensitive participants. We have a number of participants that participate in Special Olympics, through that program our participants have become really good basketball, bocce ball and bowling, just to name a few of their activities. With a portion of the funds requested we would absolutely love to put up a permanent basketball hoop, to give our participants the ability to shoot some hoops together. A permanent new swing would add just the right touch of relaxation to our outdoor gathering space. |
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