It’s a busy time for our friends at Visionaries & Voices. “Visionaries + Voices is a non-profit organization that provides exhibition opportunities, studio space, supplies, and support to more than 125 visual artists with disabilities.” Visionaries & Voices, or V+V as many know them, have one of their studios right here in our Frame USA building in Springdale. They’ve been…
Imagine waking up in pain, going to work in pain, eating dinner in pain, going to sleep in pain. This is the reality for many people who suffer from Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS). Ehlers-Danlos syndromes are a group of inherited disorders that affect your connective tissues; primarily your skin, joints, and blood vessel walls. Connective tissue provides strength and elasticity to…
According to John Hopkin’s Medicine, Friedreich’s Ataxia (FA) is a rare inherited degenerative disease. FA primarily damages the spinal cord, peripheral nerves, and the cerebellum portion of the brain. The conditions tend to develop in children and teens and gradually worsen over time. It is a recessive genetic disorder, as a result of a defect in a gene called FXN.…
This past week, Frame USA’s annual charity initiative, Fill The Truck, officially kicked off! In our 12th year, our 501c3 charitable initiative has one goal – to collect personal care items for those in need around the Greater Cincinnati area. In 2020, COVID caused Fill The Truck to alter it’s course of mainly focusing on physical donations. We turned our…
Who better than to be a voice of a group of people than people part of that group. Autistic Self Advocacy Network (ASAN) knows that and is made up of Autistic people standing up for other Autistic people. In case you are not familiar with Autism, it is a developmental disability that affects how individuals experience the world. Autism isn’t…
When you’re a family that has a child with a life-threatening condition, your life can easily be spent in and out of doctors and hospitals. A life like this is nowhere near a “Normal” life for a kid. A Kid Again is a 501c3 charity that is all about bringing back a few moments of “Normal” for families affected by…
September is characterized by many things: the End of summer, the start of fall, daily holidays such as Hug your Boss day, and one very important awareness. September is suicide prevention month. Mental health in the past couple of years has been on the rise in the media. People deciding that their mental health is more important than jobs, family…
While the majority of charities that we feature through our monthly charitable giving program on Frameusa.com are nationwide charities; sometimes a local charity is too good not to share it with the masses. This is one of those charities. Princeton Closet is one charity that we love to support and we do so through both monthly charitable giving such as…
Editors Note: We’ve chosen Visionaries + Voices as our charity of the month for the past few years. We’ve written about their mission and their values but what we haven’t written about is how Frame USA first got involved with them. Learn about our 13 year partnership from our owner, Dan Regenold. Dan Regenold on Learning About Visionaries + Voices…
It’s not a surprise that this past year has been hard, both physically, mentally, and emotionally. The COVID pandemic has hit one demographic in particular, extra hard. Senior citizens living on their own faced the difficulty of loneliness. Meals on Wheels America has been helping serve our seniors since 1954 and is our May Charity of the Month. About Meals…
March marks International Women’s month. As the Marketing Manager, I’m the one who chooses the charities that we support every month and the one who writes about them on the blog! I also am a woman, so I really only had one choice for the charity selection this month. One who supports girls. I didn’t want one that just supported…
There is nothing more magical than deciding to create a family with someone you love. For many couples, days this magic is followed by days, months, or even years of pain and suffering. About 1-2% of couples experience recurrent pregnancy loss. For one couple, loss after loss prompted a decision to make a difference. This is the story of Megan…
