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EQUITY e-newsletter: December 2005 Disability and Asset Building Communities Working Together http://www.wid.org/equity In the December EQUITY: Building Assets for People with Disabilities One State at a Time http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity FEATURE ARTICLE: If You Build It, They Will Come: http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=fa The Abilities Fund, Iowa Vocational Rehabilitation Services, The Employment Policy Group Three model programs in the state of Iowa are demonstrating how inclusive asset building can be accomplished. EQUITY Year in Review Survey We want to hear from you! Our funding is dependent on your evaluation of our newsletter. Please help us by taking this quick survey and telling us what you think of EQUITY. http://www.createsurvey.com/c/30358-CtSuut/ PROGRAM OF THE MONTH: Facilitating Financial Independence for People with Disabilities Through Research: Law, Health Policy & Disability Center at the University of Iowa http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=pm Phoebe Ball, J.D. and her colleagues at the LHPDC supply the academic arm of Iowa's asset building programs for people with disabilities. PROFILE OF THE MONTH: Promoting an Asset Building Strategy for People with Disabilities http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=profile Phoebe Ball, J.D. illustrates what an advocate for modern disability rights looks like- an educated, financially knowledgeable, disabled mother striving to empower people with disabilities in Iowa. TIP OF THE MONTH: Iowa's Entrepreneurs with Disabilities Program http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=tm Why it is important to have a 'special' program for people with disabilities wanting to start their own micro-businessess. EQUITY Responds: WID Answers Your Questions http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity_test&sub=200512&topic=responds I'm an Iowan entrepreneur with a disability and while my business is doing well, housing is a serious problem. I want to own my own home, what resources are there to help? LEARNING & NETWORKING RESOURCES: Informative websites of interest to both communities http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=equity-resource#current CONFERENCES & EVENTS: http://www.wid.org/publications/?page=conf World Institute on Disability (WID) is a non-profit public policy center dedicated to the promotion of independence and full inclusion in society of people with disabilities. WID's Access to Assets (ATA) program provides training and technical assistance to asset building and disability organizations seeking to improve the inclusion of people with disabilities in poverty reduction programs. In addition, ATA provides information and referral services to individuals with disabilities and conducts federal and state policy analysis on related issues. NEW! Toll-Free Technical Assistance Hotline: 1-866-723-1201 Do you have questions about asset building strategies or serving people with disabilities? Please contact: Megan O'Neil World Institute on Disability Access to Assets Project Coordinator [log in to unmask] Is there an article, conference, or website that you would like to have included in EQUITY? All comments and suggestions are welcome. We encourage the widest possible dissemination of EQUITY- please forward this message to colleagues and friends. 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AATPP is 100 percent funded by U.S. Department of Education grant #H133A031732. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIDRR or University of Iowa. EQUITY is also generously funded by the J.W. and Ida M. Jameson Foundation, the Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation and the Friedman Family Foundation. _________________________________________________________________ Don’t just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ ________________End of message______________________ Archives and tools for the Disability-Research Discussion List are now located at: www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/disability-research.html You can JOIN or LEAVE the list from this web page.