Programs that bridge music and medicine
We are in our first-year pilot. BRIDGE is our long-term framework for supporting neuro-complex patients and disabled musicians. In Year 1, we are launching our flagship ConcertStories Initiative and InsightLab education activities, while co-designing future support services, learning pathways, and a CareBridge micro-grant fund with our community and advisors. As a pilot organization, we are committed to testing, listening, and evolving our programs based on what proves most effective.
InclusiVibe Foundation is building a new kind of support system for disabled musicians and neuro-complex patients—one that uses concerts, storytelling, and practical navigation to transform access in music and healthcare.
Based in Denton / Dallas–Fort Worth, serving communities across the United States.
ConcertStories™ Initiative (Flagship)
Original music + real patient stories on the same stage.
ConcertStories is our flagship program, where original music and real patient and caregiver stories share the same stage. We commission new works, feature disabled and neuro-complex musicians, and pair concerts with short films and pre-concert talks so audiences can feel what brainstem and spinal conditions really mean in everyday life. Powered by our in-house StoryLab media hub, each ConcertStories project lives on through podcasts, short films, and online releases.
Commissions and features disabled and neuro-complex musicians
Integrates live performance, film, and storytelling
Extends impact through podcasts and digital releases
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Hidden Diagnoses Impact storytelling podcast & media
Hidden Diagnoses Impact is our story engine. We elevate the voices of neuro-complex patients, caregivers, and disabled artists through written narratives, podcasts, and short films. These are not “inspiration stories”—they’re case studies of what it means to live through misdiagnosis, brainstem injury, and inaccessible systems.
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Spring ConcertStories Pilot – Denton & Dallas
work-in-progress performance in Denton Spring 2025
mini-gala style event in Dallas
adaptive performance + EDS/brainstem workshop
Watch Our Concept Pilot Speech
Fund Our ConcertStories
Year 1 focus: launching a lean, high-impact Spring Stage Pilot that demonstrates what disabled-led, brainstem-aware performance can look like in North Texas.
Funding need: Our Spring Stage Pilot has an estimated total value of about $25,000–$30,000. Thanks to in-kind support (including UNT/MEIT space), we are seeking approximately $15,000–$18,000 in cash support to fully fund artist and patient collaborator fees, AV and livestream, accessibility, and post-production.
How our programs work together
BRIDGE: Neuro-Complex Support & CareBridge Mini-Grants
BRIDGE helps neuro-complex patients navigate conditions like EDS, CCI/AAI, tethered cord, and related brainstem and spinal disorders. Through peer support, one-on-one navigation, and limited CareBridge mini-grants, we walk with patients as they seek evaluations, travel for care, and push through systems that often dismiss them. Stories and patterns emerging from BRIDGE directly inform the ConcertStories, projects, and education we create.
Peer support and one-on-one navigation
Referrals to clinicians familiar with neuro-complex conditions
CareBridge mini-grants (as funding allows)
Each program focuses on a different part of the journey — artists, patients, and education—while feeding into our ConcertStories flagship.
VIBE: Adaptive Musicians & Stage Support
VIBE exists so disabled and neuro-complex musicians don’t have to choose between their health and their art. We offer adaptive coaching, support around equipment and setup, and practical stage support—like access planning, tech coordination, and advocacy with venues. Many VIBE artists go on to perform in ConcertStories events, showing what inclusive stages can look and feel like in real time.
Adaptive technique and setup consults
Stage access and tech support
Pathway into ConcertStories performance.
InsightLab: Neuro-Complex Education & Research
InsightLab turns lived experience and emerging research on neuro-complex conditions into practical guidance for patients, families, and professionals. Through Ask-the-Expert webinars, short education modules, and curated resource libraries, we translate complex brainstem and spinal science into language people can actually use. InsightLab also supports ethical, patient-centered research projects that shape how future clinicians recognize and treat these conditions.
Ask-the-Expert webinars and Q&As
Short education modules and resource guides
Patient-centered research and ethics frameworks
InsightLab research & resources
InsightLab is our research and policy hub. We track and translate emerging science on EDS, hypermobility, CCI/AAI, brainstem instability, and related conditions—bringing published data and patient experience into one place. The goal is to highlight patterns, gaps, and future research directions that traditional systems miss.
Insight
Year 1 Pilots:
Publish 3–5 InsightLab explainers (for example, EDS prevalence, upper cervical instability, research gaps)
Build and maintain a living bibliography of key papers for patients, clinicians, and researchers
Convene a small advisory circle of clinicians/researchers to guide future priorities
Your support today helps us:
Pay research assistants and writers to synthesize complex science into accessible language
Maintain tools like Zotero, transcription, surveys, interns, and website hosting for InsightLab
Offer modest honoraria to advisors who share their time and expertise
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CareBridge & economic access (in development)
Do you know?
Many neuro-complex patients and disabled artists know what care they need but can’t reach it. The CareBridge Fund is our emerging economic access program. We are mapping real-world cost barriers and designing small assistance models so finances don’t keep people from crucial evaluations, treatments, or adaptive tools.
Year 1 pilots:
Collect anonymized stories and data on the true costs of evaluation, imaging, travel, and adaptive equipment
Design transparent criteria and policies for a future micro-grant program
If funding allows, test a handful of small “proof-of-concept” support gifts tied to our pilots
Your support today helps us:
Do the legal and ethical groundwork needed for a responsible assistance fund
Build relationships with clinics, hospitals, and arts partners who may match or stretch these dollars
Seed the first micro-grants once the structure is ready, keeping disabled artists and advocates in their work
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Help us build what’s next
We’re still in the early stages of building this ecosystem—and we can’t do it alone. Whether you’re a musician, patient, clinician, or community partner, there’s a role for you in shaping what ConcertStories, BRIDGE, VIBE, and InsightLab become.