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A gift of $25 today will go a long way toward making transportation accessible to people with disabilities.

For me, this time of year is a time for reflection. A chance to look at our achievements and to also examine opportunities to increase our impact.

In addition to our transportation work, we released two groundbreaking reports on the rights of students with disabilities. Out from the Shadows exposed how schools across the country remove students with disabilities from the classroom using illegal practices known as informal removals. In Problems with Threat Assessments, NDRN and other civil rights groups examined the real-world harm created when school officials see the students themselves – particularly Black and Brown students – as potential dangers to the school community. These reports received national press and caught the attention of Congress and the Biden Administration. You can find them both on our website.

Help us continue this work in 2023 by donating $5, $10, $25, or more today.

This year NDRN was also part of a nationwide effort to educate people about COVID-19 and to vaccinate people with disabilities and others at-risk of severe illness or death. We created educational videos. Our members held vaccination clinics across the country. We successfully advocated for accessible home testing kits. And we supported a nationwide phone line to provide Americans with disabilities accurate and reliable information about vaccines and independent living. All this work resulted in one thing: lives saved. But the pandemic is not over. There is so much more to do.

As I complete my first three months at NDRN, I leave you with this promise: As long as I’m here, all people with disabilities will have representation, everywhere. We will have a seat at the table and a voice in Washington, DC and in communities across the country. NDRN will spend next year doing what we always do—fighting for the civil and human rights of people with disabilities. Every day of every month. All year.

Your ongoing support throughout the year would be enormously encouraging and greatly appreciated. Thank you for your continued support for NDRN and for people with disabilities everywhere.

Sincerely,

Marlene Sallo
Executive Director

PS. I know that your mailbox is jammed packed with requests for support from many worthwhile causes. As you make your year-end contributions, remember donations to the National Disability Rights Network are tax-deductible.