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Just three weeks left to make your issues, their issues

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Disabilities At Work Special Announcement Reminder

If you haven't already registered as an endorsing agency, now’s the

time! There are only three weeks left until the national announcement of the

Disabilities At Work Endorsed Businesses—the “honor roll” of businesses that

support the disabled community. This is your opportunity as an agency that helps

people with disabilities to acknowledge those businesses that really ‘step up’

in support of people with disabilities, go ‘beyond compliance’ in their hiring

practices or support causes that benefit the disabled community with their

philanthropy.

This new program launched by www.DisabilitiesAtWork.org aims to

harness the economic power of the disability community to support businesses

that support people with disabilities.

Community service providers, affiliates of the USBLN, government

agencies, nonprofit organizations, schools and school districts, or similar

entities that work with, or on behalf of, people with disabilities can endorse

businesses that support the disabled community. In return, endorsed businesses

can display the unique Disabilities At Work logo on its website, on windows,

doors, and walls with decals and plaques, and on letterhead.

People with disabilities, their families, friends, and service

providers control billions of dollars in disposable income every year. You can

use that buying power to reward businesses that have earned the right to display

the Disabilities At Work logo, and encourage other businesses to do so, as well.

If your organization works with people with disabilities, you

probably interact with dozens of businesses in your training and placement

activities. Go to www.DisabilitiesAtWork.org register as an endorsing agency,

and nominate those businesses.

Endorsed businesses will be listed on the Disabilities At Work

website and will be announced in a national press release on October 27, 2011.

Feel free to pass this information on to your contacts at other

agencies that might not have received this information. The more businesses we

can recognize through the national press release, the better – it might just

motivate businesses that don't support people with disabilities to do so.

You only have three more weeks to endorse these well-deserving

businesses. You have three weeks to make your issues, their issues.

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Visit us at:

www.DisabilitiesAtWork.org