[nabs-l] Instead of Cars, Jobs

[Joe Orozco]

See, instead of using current resources on distant future projects like the
blind driver challenge, the NFB could be using funds to pursue opportunities
like the one below, projects that actively find ways to put people into jobs
in the here and now.  I hope someone in Baltimore tracks these kinds of
opportunities:

 Department of Labor: Add Us In Initiative 

CFDA: 17.720

Deadline: September 1, 2010 

Amount: Estimated funds available: $2,300,000. Estimated grant range:
$500,000-$625,000. Estimated number of awards: Up to 4. 

Eligibility: Eligible consortiums consisting of four organization types,
including an association of targeted business owners or other similar
entity, a
disability-serving organization, a local workforce investment board, and a
youth-serving organization (See full announcement for additional
information.)


Description: This program provides support to eligible consortia efforts to
design, implement, and evaluate innovative systems models that support
integrated
employment opportunities for people with disabilities within targeted
businesses. Priority will be given to proposed activities that integrate the
following
objectives: increase the ability of targeted businesses to employ adults and
youth with disabilities; develop and evaluate replicable models, strategies
and policies that would ensure that youth and adults from targeted
populations with disabilities have access to a broader range of employment
and mentoring
opportunities; and, form and strengthen connections between targeted
businesses, diversity-serving organizations, youth-serving organizations,
and disability-serving
organizations, building a national and local network of experts skilled in
serving individuals with disabilities.

Contact: 
Cassandra Mitchell,
202-693-4570 



Joe

"Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves,
some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all."--Sam Ewing