Impact

Erin’s Light

Currently, Templer Foundation’s primary focus is on launching programs in underdeveloped countries, specifically those in which access to professional services supporting children with developmental disabilities and their families are limited. Our primary focus is Erin’s Light Early Intervention Program and, to date, we’ve directly impacted thousands of people.

To date, we’ve relied almost exclusively upon volunteerism and have been privately funded with additional support coming from self-generated capital projects, private donations, corporate sponsorships, and special events. We help where we’re able to.

Ad Hoc Projects

If we’re presented with an opportunity to help and we’re able to… we do. A few examples of the support we’ve provided:

  • Programs supporting lepers, amputees, and AIDS orphans.

  • Limited financial and pragmatic support to special needs (including) terminally ill children and their families.

An example of an ad hoc project: We were able to provide financial support to a 10-year old terminally ill child who was eligible for experimental cancer treatment in Texas, but could not afford the travel costs to take advantage of that opportunity. Coordinating with Children’s Hospital of Michigan, we enabled his mother to take him to – and stay with him – whilst he was undergoing his treatment at the hospital in Texas. Though the treatment was ultimately unsuccessful, and the child died, he and his mother were able to move through the process with dignity.

  • Financial donations to Children’s Hospital of Michigan and various other worthwhile endeavors.

  • Limited support to Kids Wings, to support their provision of free air transportation to terminally and chronically ill children to distant medical facilities when commercial air transportation is either unaffordable or impractical.

  • Support feeding the homeless and disadvantaged in Detroit, MI.

  • In 2012 the Templer Foundation joined forces with Three Sixty Inc., an organization producing compelling and scientifically measurable results with active duty U.S. Army personnel through its Soldier 360° Course to design Project XI – Veterans. This was the first step towards fulfilling The Templer Foundation’s commitment to provide pragmatic and cost-effective support to people experiencing PTSD and to living fully, with dignity.

  • Nepal – Women’s Social Enterprise Project.