Dear Friends,
Our 100-city Real
Economic Impact Tour rolls on, with four events coming up around the
corner:
Today, March 30, the Tour stops
in Detroit
for a community meeting with the Accounting Aid Society and we're excited to
have Julia Garcia, Director of IRS - SPEC Division in attendance.
Over on the west cost, the Tour
will also participate in a press conference today with the Walmart Foundation,
United Way, and One Economy's MyFreeTaxes.com.
Speakers from the MyFreeTaxes.com Van stop in Oakland, NDI's Michael Roush second from right.
On April 8, the Tour will roll in Atlanta to meet with the Center for Financial
Independence & Innovation and the Georgia
Council on Developmental Disabilities, and we'll close out the month with a stop on our home turf
with the DC Department on Disability Services on April 30th.
REI Tour partner 54Freedom
continues its entrepreneur contest, now through September 2010 --- and we're
counting on you to help get the word out. Each month, one exemplary
entrepreneur with a disability will be chosen to be entered into the contest. Of those selected,
one will be chosen by the public as Entrepreneur of the Year. The winner will
receive a $5000 cash award, a scholarship to an entrepreneurial LiveOutLoud
event, and an invitation to the 2011 Real Economic Tour Kick-Off event this fall in Washington, DC, where the award will be presented.
To find out more information and how to submit to the
contest, click here.
In other NDI news, earlier this
year we visited Greensboro, NC to join forces with the IDA & Asset Building
Collaborative of NC and EITC Carolinas to implement the Building Assets, Promoting Choice and Community
Participation for People With Disabilities curriculum --- and
also introduced it to our new partner, Beyond Academics. To watch the Greensboro edition
of our Best Practice series, visit our YouTube Page.
--- The National Disability
Institute's Real Economic Impact Team
