COMMUNITY EMPLOYMENT GRANTS

 

Alliance Center for Independence, (Edison, NJ) To provide a 12-session program designed to give 40 individuals, ages 21 and over, the tools to prepare them for meaningful employment: $25,000.

 

Alternatives, Inc., (Raritan, NJ) To provide job training and accommodation assistance to people with disabilities in a retail setting: $40,000.

 

The Arc of Union County, (Springfield, NJ) To provide training and employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities in an ecologically conscious retail business, selling new and used sports equipment: $40,000.

 

The Cerebral Palsy League, Inc., (Cranford, NJ) To establish a Vending Management enterprise that provides healthy vending choices, creates employment opportunities for persons with disabilities, and generates revenue: $50,000.

 

Cerebral Palsy of North Jersey, (Livingston, NJ) To support a new Job Developer to secure vocational opportunities for both high school students and adults: $31,320.

 

Cheshire Home, (Florham Park, NJ) To enable young adults with paralysis to learn to operate the computer using adaptive technology, as a tool for employment, education, and independence: $38,000.

 

DAWN Center for Independent Living, Inc., (Denville, NJ) To become an Employment Network through the Social Security Administration in order to provide tools, resources, and services that support meaningful, gainful, inclusive employment for people with disabilities: $45,000.

 

Easter Seals New Jersey, (East Brunswick, NJ) To implement a program that facilitates quality education, leadership, and work opportunities for youth with disabilities to support their exploration and participation in high-tech careers: $40,000.

 

The Elizabeth M. Boggs Center on Developmental Disabilities, University of Medicine and Dentistry−Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, (New Brunswick, NJ) To work with congregations and faith networks in New Jersey to develop customized processes that enable and empower faith communities to use the connections and commitment of their members to find and support employment opportunities for their members with disabilities: $50,000.

 

Jewish Service for the Developmentally Disabled of Metro West, Inc., (West Orange, NJ) To train beginning students in the Adaptive Yoga and Meditation Teacher Training Program by providing 2010 graduates of the program with employment as apprentice teachers, as they continue their training at an advanced level: $25,000.

 

LADACIN Network, (Wanamassa, NJ) To support a Career and Contract Developer who creates meaningful in-house and community employment opportunities for people with disabilities: $40,000.

 

Matheny Medical and Educational Center, (Peapack, NJ) To provide continuing prevocational opportunities for students and adults, including volunteer, and in-house and community vocational opportunities: $35,000.

 

National Multiple Sclerosis Society – GDV Chapter, (Philadelphia, PA) To assist in educating neurologists on the unique employment needs of individuals with multiple sclerosis and how these individuals can remain successfully employed: $23,350.

 

New York Service for the Handicapped, (New York, NY) To continue the 6-week residential summer program for adolescents/young adults with physical disabilities that provides support and training in physical independence, vocational skills, and literacy: $40,000.

 

Newark Alliance Inc., (Newark, NJ) To advance the work of the northern NJ public/private partnership to fund sustainable workforce development for low-skilled workers, including career development for people with disabilities: $25,000.

 

Opportunity Project, Inc., (Millburn, NJ) To provide work evaluation, work adjustment training, supported employment, and long-term follow-along for adults with brain injury: $40,000.

 

Pathways for Exceptional Children, (Montville, NJ) To expand Project Win-Win to include a recording studio, new studio facility space, and a school-based Project Win-Win program: $35,000.

 

PRIDE Industries, (Roseville, CA) To provide vocational training and employment supports to help people with severe disabilities secure and sustain employment in skilled trades positions: $25,000.

 

Raise Hope Foundation, (Verona, NJ) To train 20 participants with mobility-related disabilities for 14 weeks as preparation for work in the financial industry, including classroom work, job-shadowing, interviewing skills, and placement opportunities: $30,000.

 

The Washington Center for Internships & Academic Seminars, (Washington, DC) To offer scholarships to students with disabilities so they can participate in an internship program in the nation’s capital that combines classroom learning with real-work experience and training: $25,000. 

 

 

SPECIAL INITIATIVES GRANTS

 

County of Bergen, (Hackensack, NJ) To provide an opportunity for socialization, recreation, rehabilitative instruction, and restorative exercises to stroke survivors: $15,000.

 

ChairScholars Foundation, Inc., (Odessa, FL) To provide college tuition support to high school seniors with severe physical disabilities from low-to-moderate income households, residing in the New York Metropolitan area: $15,000.

 

Children’s Specialized Hospital Foundation, Inc., (Mountainside, NJ) To support Camp Chatterbox, which provides a recreational experience that strengthens independence, technological skills for speech generating devices, and self-confidence. Camp Chatterbox is the only overnight weeklong camp for kids with augmentative and alternative communication needs: $1,500.

 

City Without Walls, (Newark, NJ) To support a community-based art program including a master artist-mentor for Newark youth with physical disabilities to produce a large-scale mural that will be permanently installed in a highly visible public space: $15,000.

 

Disability Funders Network, (Midlothian, VA) To contribute as a partner to the Hurricane Sandy DFN Emergency Response Grant Fund: $15,000.

 

Disability Funders Network, (Midlothian, VA) To co-host a breakfast in the Congressional Visitors Center during the 22nd anniversary of the signing of the ADA, during which  Senator Tom Harkin spoke to an audience of leaders from the disability community and key funders in the area of employment and workforce development: $10,000.

 

The Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, Inc., (New York, NY) To expand the ReelAbilities Film Festival to New Jersey: $20,000.

 

Kean University Foundation, Inc., (Union, NJ) To provide innovative speech and communication therapy and support services for clients and their caregivers: $13,000.

 

National Multiple Sclerosis Society – NJ Metro Chapter, (Oakhurst, NJ) To keep people with MS mentally and physically healthy while working and living independently. The Wellness Center is housed at Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation: $15,000.

 

North Jersey Navigators, Inc., (Bayonne, NJ) To provide recreational and competitive adaptive programs that have been specially designed to develop and enhance the mobility skills of children and youth with physical disabilities: $20,000.

 

Push to Walk, A New Jersey Non-Profit Corporation, (Riverdale, NJ) To augment current exercise options for clients through the purchase of a hand cycle and to provide support for Summer Camp 2012: $15,000.

 

The Somerset Foundation, Inc., (Santa Monica, CA) To develop a feature- length dramatic film script, based on interviews and collaboration with pioneering members of the disability community, about the ‘Rolling Quads’: $5,000.