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I Am Your Child - is a
national public awareness and engagement campaign to make early childhood
development a top priority for our nation.
iGive.com
- We believe that in the near future, all consumer transactions will
contain a percentage that benefits causes close to home. We¥re using
the Internet to its fullest potential to realize that goal. iGive.com
is the first and largest online network of shoppers, merchants, web
sites, and nonprofits dedicated to turning online shopping into philanthropy.
In Healthy Living Network Ltd
- The Centre for Independent Living (Managed by Choices and Rights
Disability Coalition) located in London, helps to provide services
based around seven fundamental requirements to enable disabled people
to become equal active citizens; information, peer support, housing,
appropriate technical aids, personal assistance, transport and access.
Independent Living Research Utilization
- is a national center for information, training, research, and technical
assistance in independent living. Its goal is to expand the body of
knowledge in independent living and to improve utilization of results
of research programs and demonstration projects in this field. It
is a program of TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research),
a nationally recognized medical rehabilitation facility for persons
with disabilities.
Institute on Independent
Living - is a philosophy and a movement of people with disabilities
who work for self-determination, equal opportunities and self-respect.
Independent Living does not mean that we want to do everything by
ourselves and do not need anybody or that we want to live in isolation.
Independent Living means that we demand the same choices and control
in our every-day lives that our non-disabled brothers and sisters,
neighbors and friends take for granted.
International Center for the Disabled
- ICD was founded in 1917 by noted philanthropist Jeremiah Milbank,
Sr. as the "School of Another Chance" for disabled veterans of World
War I. The first outpatient rehabilitation center in the United States,
ICD has pioneered innovative programs and services for people with
every imaginable disability for well over 85 years. Today ICD is a
comprehensive rehabilitation center providing medical rehabilitation
and primary care, mental health and addiction recovery services, and
vocational rehabilitation and job placement services - all under one
roof.
International Multiple Sclerosis/Autoimmune
Disorders - non-profit online support group for people with MS
and Autoimmune Disorders.
Internet Mental Health
- Our goal is to improve understanding, diagnosis, and treatment of
mental illness throughout the world.
Interstitial Cystitis Association
- Founded in 1984, the Interstitial Cystitis Association (ICA) is
a not-for-profit health organization dedicated to providing patient
and physician educational information and programs, patient support,
public awareness and, most importantly, research funding. The ICA
works nationwide on behalf of all IC patients.
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JOB SERVICES:
AFB CareerConnect - a free resource for people who are blind or
visually impaired to learn about the range and diversity of the jobs
that are performed throughout the United States and Canada by adults
who are blind or visually impaired.
Bender Consulting
Services, Inc. - This
for-profit organization, an information technology consultancy for
large companies, creates IT employment and career opportunities for
people with disabilities. They place qualified technical specialists
with disabilities in competitive positions in major
corporations.
Career One Stop - nation's publicly-funded
resource for jobseekers and businesses. Find jobs - from entry level
to technical to professional to CEO - in America's Job Bank.
Careers & the disABLED - Careers &
the disABLED Magazine is the nation's first and only career-guidance
and recruitment magazine for people with disabilities who are at
undergraduate, graduate, or professional levels.
eSight Careers Network - a comprehensive and free Internet service to
help blind and visually impaired individuals create new career and
employment opportunities. eSight has been developed to meet the
career management needs of the blind and low-vision community and is
designed to be totally accessible and easily navigated.
Equality Staffing - located in New York
City, assists in temporary and permanent placement of qualified
workers with disabilities, and addresses disability as a diversity
issue in the workplace.
Goodwill Industries
International Career & Job Training Services - largest nonprofit provider of employment
and training services for people with disabilities. The
community-based employment and training programs that form the basis
of Goodwillís operations provide services in the areas of vocational
evaluation, vocational adjustment, job-seeking skills/placement, and
transitional employment.
HireDeaf.com - posts up-to-date job
announcements from across the country of interest to deaf job
seekers. Job listings are submitted by corporate hiring managers,
staffing firms, and executive recruiters.
Hire disAbility - is the national leader in
creating career expos that bring together the disabled workforce and
top companies of Corporate America that are looking to hire
qualified men and women with disabilities, and to thereby create a
more diverse, effective and representative corporate workforce.
HirePotential - specializes in placing
people with disabilities in rewarding, competitive jobs with
attractive benefits at leading companies across the country.
JobAccess - works with government,
companies and non-profits to procure job opportunities for people
with disabilities.
Lift, Inc. - nonprofit corporation that qualifies, trains, hires, and
places information technology professionals with disabilities. The
company contracts with major corporations who eventually hire them
directly. Lift combines specialized business experience in
information technology with expertise at recruitment, assessment,
and accommodation to give men and women who have disabilities a
vocational "lift".
National Business & Disability Council - is the leading resource for
employers seeking to integrate people with disabilities into the
workplace and companies seeking to reach them in the consumer
marketplace.
Office of Disability
Employment Policy -
U.S. Department of Labor has developed a WIA Section 188 Disability
Checklist to ensure nondiscrimination and equal opportunity to
persons with disabilities participating in programs and activities
operated by Local Workforce Investment Area (LWIA) grant recipients
that are part of the One-Stop delivery system.
Workforce Recruitment Program for
College Students with Disabilities - WRP
is a resource for businesses nationwide to hire qualified
postsecondary students and recent graduates as temporary and
permanent employees in a variety of fields. The WRP targets
universities and colleges throughout the U.S.
Johns Hopkins Physical Medicine
and Rehabilitation - Find out what's
happening in the world of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
(PM&R) at John Hopkins University. Provides links to resources
pertaining to JHU such as: News and Announcements, Clinical
Services, Education and Training Services and Faculty and Staff.
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K & D Custom Coach -
K & D Custom Coach has the distinction of building diverse, custom mobile units,
including handicapped accessible RV's
Kathie's Good Speech Korner
- have focused the past twenty years on working with persons on the
autism spectrum. My career as a speech pathologist has also targeted
early childhood speech and language development and behavioral intervention.
Kessler
Rehabilitation Corporation - Inpatient, outpatient, outpatient
satellite and skilled nursing rehabilitation facilities. Subsidiaries
include Wilpage Medical Equipment, the Henry H. Kessler Foundation,
Kessler Nursing Homes and Kessler Assisted Living Centers.
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LevelStar
- The new fully loaded Mobile Manager and Notetaker for the visually impaired.
Small, hand held design with a 30GB hard drive for storing thousands of books and mp3's.
Living Independently in Los Angeles
- LILA is a consumer-directed and regionally focused online project
to benefit people with disabilities living in Los Angeles County.
Living SMArt - A Newsletter
for Adults with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA).
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