#AwesomeDisability | August's Winner & Apply for September's Grant
Our 91st grant!
The winner of August’s Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter (#AwesomeDisability) grant is Marissa Ditkowsky with The National Disabled Legal Professionals Association!
Visit https://www.awesomefoundation.org/en/projects/284606-national-disabled-legal-professionals-association to learn more about the project!
What our grantee is saying: “We are so honored to receive this generous grant from the Awesome Foundation, which will allow us to kickstart the work we are passionate about -- supporting other disabled legal professionals navigating a largely inaccessible and exclusionary profession. We are excited to finally be able to create an accessible website that houses critical resources and information for disabled legal professionals.”
A few reminders & updates:
Submit your application between the 1st and the 10th of each month to be considered for that month’s grant. If you apply outside of this window, you will not be considered. Apply for a grant at http://disability.awesomefoundation.org
Submissions MUST be submitted in English (use Google Translate if needed).
If you identify as a person with a disability and can commit to contributing $100/month for at least 3 months, join us as a trustee! Help us spread the word on Twitter!
If you'd like to support our mission, make a tax-deductible donation on Stripe.
Preorder Awesome Disability dean & cofounder Tiffany Yu’s book, The Anti-Ableist Manifesto: Smashing Stereotypes, Forging Change, and Building a Disability-Inclusive World (available October 8, 2024). If you’d like to support the book launch, apply to join the book launch team by September 4, 2024 (tomorrow!).
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- Trustees of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter (Tiffany, Walei, Liz, Alexandra, Adam, Rynn, Kathryn, Kathy, Nico, Anya, Elena, and Jessica)
The Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter is an entirely volunteer-run and 100% disability-led economic justice initiative launched in 2017 by Alice Wong and Tiffany Yu.
Our impact to date: $90,500 to 91 projects in 13 countries (U.S., India, Canada, Nepal, the Netherlands, England, Philippines, Rwanda, Tanzania, Ecuador, Peru, Malawi and Uganda).