Phase 1

Accepting Donations

Help Build the
Device Someone
Needs

Personalized assistive devices for 10 disabled people living with pain, lost independence, and needs standard equipment has not met.

Your gift helps turn their priorities into devices they help design, test, and refine.

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Phase 2 · Planned

Build Capacity

Build Capacity

Expand device production, develop Mendr AI and Open Device Library alphas, and advance humanitarian research and design.

Phase 3 · Planned

Share Access

Share Access

Launch Mendr AI and Open Device Library betas, the Menderi Community and Project Crowdfunding platforms, and humanitarian kits.

The People Behind the Pilot

The People Behind the Pilot

These four stories are a small sample of the people we aim to support in our ten-person pilot. Their lives and priorities guide what we build.

These four stories are a small sample of the people we aim to support in our ten-person pilot. Their lives and priorities guide what we build.

A child using a halo-traction walker with her family.

Halo Traction Walker

Family photograph · Enhanced for clarity

Andrea

A Childhood on Hold

A young child spends day and night in traction, relying on equipment that has repeatedly failed her. Her family has been left to improvise the supports she needs just to sleep, sit, and move.

She faces the prospect of another year or two in traction. Her family needs dependable equipment to support her treatment and protect her chance to move more freely as she grows.

We want to work with her family and care team to build properly fitted supports for her bed, walker, and wheelchair. The goal is to make daily life less painful and give her more room for play, family, and being a child.

Isolated silver hemi-walker with a curved standing-support rail and teal fittings, without a person.

Hemi-Walker Support

Concept rendering

Richard

The Everyday Things He Wants Back

A stroke took away the use of one arm and much of the strength in one leg. Getting out of bed, brushing his teeth, and moving around now depend on help. His walker cannot give him the support he needs to stand by himself.

We want to adapt it so he can rise with one arm and greater stability. For him, that is a path toward doing ordinary things for himself again, while easing the repeated lifting his wife and daughter shoulder each day.

Complete DGC wearable in three-quarter perspective, shown from shoulders through both feet.

DGC Wearable

Concept rendering

Olivia

A Chance to Learn to Walk

She loves singing and the ocean. But a child with cerebral palsy needs more help to practice the movements that other children learn without thinking. Her family has explored large orthopedic systems, searching for something affordable that can adapt as she grows.

We want to develop a wearable that senses her movements and provides physical cues during gait practice. Working with her family and medical team, the hope is to give her more opportunity to learn to walk and build independence.

Open Pellet Pouch cushion showing its two layers of teal cells, foam pellets, and connecting passages.

Pellet Pouch

Concept rendering

Dana

When Sitting Means Constant Pain

She can move just one finger. Multiple sclerosis has left her dependent on her wheelchair, and constant pain has become harder to bear as sciatica adds another source of suffering. Her seating cannot adapt as her support needs change.

We want to develop a cushion that can be reshaped around her body, again and again. The goal is to ease pressure and pain so she can spend more of her day with loved ones, instead of simply enduring it.

Help Turn an Unmet Need Into Relief

Help Turn an Unmet Need Into Relief

Your support helps carry a device from the first conversation through design, building, fitting, and refinement.

Your support helps carry a device from the first conversation through design, building, fitting, and refinement.

Why PayPal Shows VPF

Why PayPal Shows VPF

You’ll continue to the Victor Pineda Foundation’s PayPal page. VPF is The Menderi’s fiscal sponsor and receives donations on its behalf. The checkout currently shows VPF’s name without The Menderi branding. Your receipt will also identify VPF.

You’ll continue to the Victor Pineda Foundation’s PayPal page. VPF is The Menderi’s fiscal sponsor and receives donations on its behalf. The checkout currently shows VPF’s name without The Menderi branding. Your receipt will also identify VPF.

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Prototype Materials

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Personalized Design

Support time spent listening, measuring, and designing around the person.

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Personalized Design

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Personalized Design

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Clinical Guidance

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Building and Refining

Support skilled time making, testing, and adjusting a device.

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Building and Refining

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Building and Refining

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Components and Equipment

Help cover the materials and equipment personalized builds require.

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Components and Equipment

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Gifts are pooled across The Menderi’s work. These examples describe costs your support helps cover, rather than purchases or gifts restricted to a particular person or task.

Gifts are pooled across The Menderi’s work. These examples describe costs your support helps cover, rather than purchases or gifts restricted to a particular person or task.

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Larger gifts and grants can help fund complete participant projects and the capacity to serve more people.

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Fiscal Sponsorship

Fiscal Sponsorship

Donations are made to the Victor Pineda Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and The Menderi’s fiscal sponsor, EIN 51-0538978. The Victor Pineda Foundation retains legal discretion and control over donated funds. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. PayPal receipts will identify the Victor Pineda Foundation as the recipient.

Donations are made to the Victor Pineda Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and The Menderi’s fiscal sponsor, EIN 51-0538978. The Victor Pineda Foundation retains legal discretion and control over donated funds. Contributions are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. PayPal receipts will identify the Victor Pineda Foundation as the recipient.