Friend,

Before the ball drops and 2025 ends, we have an exclusive match offer to further our advocacy efforts and expand our support for people with disabilities in 2026.

We can’t drop the ball on that!

Make a tax-deductible gift to Easterseals now that will be DOUBLED by a generous group of donors up to our $100,000 end-of-year goal!

As the co-host of the Easterseals podcast “Everything You Know About Disability is Wrong,” I get to talk to disabled advocates, actors, educators, and athletes. In a recent episode, we talked about the term “special needs” and why many of us don’t think our needs are actually all that special!

To eat, to drink water, to go to the bathroom, to be loved, to love, to feel needed: There might be different ways for us to achieve them – but what is so special about the needs we all have?

The fact is that even disability itself is not so special. Disability is part of the human experience!

More than 1 in 4 people in the U.S. live with a disability, making it our largest minority group – and disability already touches all of us, whether we realize it or not. That is why Easterseals’ work for people with disabilities is helping build a world where all of us are valued, respected, and accepted.

What is special is our rare 2X-match offer that can help DOUBLE our impact for people with disabilities heading into 2026. But this offer ends strictly at midnight on Dec. 31 – and we need your help to reach it.

Please, friend: Make a special end-of-year gift to Easterseals NOW to help us reach our year-end goal and have every dollar go TWICE AS FAR to support our work for people with disabilities.

Thank you for your invaluable support.

Lily Newton
Autistic Advocate
Content Specialist at Easterseals
Co-Host of the “Everything You Know About Disability Is Wrong” podcast