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EQUITY e-newsletter: November 2009

Our nation’s veterans with disabilities: building assets, starting small businesses, becoming economically self-sufficient


Feature

VB101: getting the right information in the right hands at the right time for our nations Veterans

 

Program of the Month

Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) offers cutting edge, experiential training in entrepreneurship and small business management to veterans with disabilities.


Profile of the Month

Personal accounts of how the EBV program helps our countries Veterans with disabilities follow their dreams and become financially secure.

 

Tip of the Month

20 programs that help veterans with disabilities get an education, find a job and build assets.


EQUITY Responds: WID Answers Your Questions

I have been working with Veterans with disabilities for years but only recently heard about the area of asset building for our nation's wounded warriors. Where can I get more information about asset building specifically for people with disabilities?


LEARNING & NETWORKING RESOURCES:
http://www.wid.org/programs/access-to-assets/equity/
equity-resources/current-resources 

CONFERENCES & EVENTS:
http://www.wid.org/programs/access-to-assets/equity/upcoming-conferences/upcoming-conferences 

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. 

Toll-Free Technical Assistance Hotline: 1-866-723-1201
Do you have questions about asset building strategies or serving people with disabilities?
Please contact:
Thomas Foley
World Institute on Disability
Access to Assets Project Manager
tom@wid.org 

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EQUITY is a publication of World Institute on Disability's Access to Assets Program and is supported by the Asset Accumulation and Economic Self-Sufficiency (AAESS) Project, a partnership of The Burton Blatt Institute at Syracuse University (
bbi.syr.edu), the Southern New Hampshire University School of Community Economic Development, the National Federation of Community Development Credit Unions, the World Institute on Disability, and the National Disability Institute. 

AAESS is funded in part by U.S. Department of Education grant #
H133A090014. Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of NIDRR or Syracuse University. 


EQUITY is also generously funded by the Friedman Family Foundation.


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