2008 & 2009 Annual Report
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Table of Contents
Message from AAPD’s 2008 Board Chair Cheryl Sensenbrenner
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AAPD at a Glance 2008 - Highlights and Achievements
o Political Participation
o Creative Coalition Building
o Public Policy/Advocacy
o Connecting with Stakeholders
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AAPD 2008 Sponsors
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AAPD 2008 Financial Information
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AAPD 2008 Board of Directors
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Message from AAPD’s 2009 Board Chair Tony Coelho
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AAPD at a Glance 2009 – Highlights and Achievements
o Improving Access to Justice
o Increasing Employment Opportunities
o Leadership
o International Coalition Building
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AAPD 2009 Sponsors
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AAPD 2009 Financial Information
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AAPD 2009 Board of Directors
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Message from AAPD’s 2008 Board Chair Cheryl Sensenbrenner
Dear Friends:
We’re pleased to share with you the milestones of one of AAPD’s most successful years.
As we look back at 2008, we celebrate triumphs like the record number of citizens with
disabilities voting in the 2008 general election and the growth of our programs. But most
importantly, this was the year that AAPD achieved the goal of getting the Americans with
Disabilities Act Amendments Act passed and signed into law. See page 6 for details on
this law. Achieving this longtime goal was a watershed moment for AAPD and for the
disability community.
As the board chair of AAPD in 2008, I prioritized making the ADA Amendments Act a
reality, and worked tirelessly with many others in the community to get it passed and
signed into law.
To me, as a person with a disability and a longtime disability activist, this law represents
so much more than the hours we spent working with our partners in the disability, civil
rights and business communities to educate lawmakers about the importance of this law.
To me, it realizes what the original Americans with Disabilities Act was supposed to do –
protect all Americans with disabilities from discrimination.
The ADA Amendments Act protects all people with disabilities who experience
discrimination in the workplace. Hopefully it will over time help more people with
disabilities achieve the goal of employment – another huge priority for AAPD. AAPD still
has so much more work to do as we organize the disability community to be a powerful
voice for change – politically, economically, and socially. The passage of the ADA
Amendments Act showed us we CAN accomplish so much. We will continue to work to
realize the dream of the ADA – equality for all people with disabilities in the United States.
Thank you so much to our members, board of directors, donors, volunteers, advocates
and staff of AAPD for making 2008 a year we will look back on as one of the
organization’s most successful years. None of the achievements highlighted in our 20082009 annual report would have been possible without the support of all of AAPD’s
stakeholders.
Cheryl Sensenbrenner
AAPD at a Glance 2008 – Highlights
The Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act was passed and signed into law. A
record number of voters with disabilities headed to the polls for the presidential election.
Coalitions to help integrate our community into all aspects of society, from faith
communities to the workplace to the political process were strengthened.
2008 was a year of great victories for AAPD as the organization fought for the rights of
people with disabilities on Capitol Hill, as well as in cities and towns across the United
States. AAPD furthered our mission to organize the disability community to be a powerful
voice for change – politically, economically, and socially through our programs, advocacy,
and grassroots outreach. These efforts helped us achieve many milestones, but most
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importantly, they positively impacted the lives of many people with disabilities and their
families.
INCREASING POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
AAPD and more than 80 other disability organizations celebrated the ADA anniversary,
organized the disability community and showcased its power as a voting bloc at the
historic National Presidential Candidates Forum on Disability Issues on July 26, 2008 in
Columbus, Ohio. AAPD was a major organizer of this unprecedented national presidential
forum focused specifically on disability issues.
Emcee actor and disability rights activist Robert David Hall (“CSI: Crime Scene
Investigation”) delivered the keynote address before hundreds of members of the disability
community. A panel discussion on “What's at Stake for People with Disabilities in the Next
Election?” followed. Then-Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain and Sen.
Tom Harkin, representing the Obama campaign at the event, presented visions for the
future of disability policy in America and answered questions from event moderator, PBS
journalist Judy Woodruff. Senator McCain participated via live satellite. Another several
thousand people watched the event live on the web thanks to Disaboom.com.
In the November 2008 general election, the voter participation rate of people with
disabilities reached an all-time high, with 14.7 million citizens with disabilities visiting the
polls. Working with our disability vote coalition partners all over the country, AAPD helped
organize the disability community to get out the vote and get voting equipment accessible,
which helped produce the positive outcome of the 2008 election. The gap in participation
between the population at large and Americans with disabilities shrank to 7 percent, with
57.3 percent of people with disabilities voting.
After 13 years of lobbying by the disability community, the U.S. Census studied the voter
participation of Americans with disabilities for the first time. The Government
Accountability Office also conducted a national survey of voting accessibility in November
2008.
CREATIVE COALITION BUILDING
In the fall of 2008, AAPD found a focal point for addressing spiritual and religious issues in
the disability community by welcoming Ginny Thornburgh as Director of AAPD’s Interfaith
Initiative. Thornburgh, who founded the Religion and Disability Program at the National
Organization on Disability (NOD) in 1989, brings a wealth of knowledge about making
congregations and seminaries welcoming to people with disabilities. She has helped
organize over 250 community building “That All May Worship” conferences and is a
frequent speaker about the barriers of architecture, communications, and attitude that may
prevent children and adults with disabilities from accessing a full life of faith.
Thornburgh led AAPD’s efforts to form a new a coalition called the Interfaith Disability
Advocacy Coalition (IDAC). IDAC is a diverse, nonpartisan coalition of religious and
religiously-affiliated organizations whose core spiritual values affirm the rights and dignity
of people with disabilities. The mission of IDAC is to mobilize the religious community to
speak out and take action on disability policy issues to Congress, to the President and his
Administration, and to society at large.
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Since its inception, IDAC, which has members spanning the Christian, Jewish, Islamic and
Hindu traditions, has sent letters to members of Congress in support of important disability
issues like the Community Choice Act and health care reform.
Also in 2008, AAPD, in coordination with the Coalition of Organizations for Accessible
Technology (COAT), secured release of H.R. 6320, “The 21st Century Communications
and Video Accessibility Act of 2007.” The bill incorporates a comprehensive update of the
Communications Act to ensure accessibility of new technologies.
COAT, which AAPD co-founded in 2007, grew to over 230 coalition members by the end
of the year – including five international, 85 national, and 140 local organizations.
PUBLIC POLICY/ADVOCACY
After several years of negotiation and hard work, AAPD, working in coalition with disability
and civil rights organizations, celebrated the passage of the Americans with Disabilities
Act Amendments Act of 2008, which was signed into law by President George W. Bush on
September 25, 2008. The legislation, which had originally been called the ADA
Restoration Act, was passed by unanimous consent in the Senate and by voice vote in the
House. The ADA Amendments Act restored civil rights to Americans with disabilities in the
workplace. The legislation also overturned four Supreme Court decisions that had
inappropriately narrowed the protections of the ADA. The ADA Amendments Act protects
Americans with disabilities from workplace discrimination by specifically clarifying the
definition of “disability.” It restores coverage to millions of Americans with epilepsy,
diabetes, cancer, depression, and a host of other conditions who has been interpreted out
of the ADA. Passage of the bill was especially significant because it brought the disability
and business communities together to work on this historic bipartisan legislation.
CONNECTING WITH STAKEHOLDERS
In 2008, AAPD started our social networking initiative, creating communities online on
popular social networking websites including Facebook.com, LinkedIn.com, Twitter.com,
and MySpace.com.
Almost immediately, AAPD’s presence on each site began to grow, and by 2010, AAPD
had connected with about 11,000 people through our various pages, groups, and
accounts.
Members of AAPD’s social networks receive the latest disability news, including updates
on AAPD’s programs and work. AAPD is able to communicate regularly with our
stakeholders and help them communicate with each other through these sites.
AAPD built on and expanded its online efforts in 2009 and 2010. In 2009, AAPD’s
President and CEO, Andrew Imparato, and other staff members created Twitter accounts
to keep followers up to date on news and information.
In addition to connecting with our community, AAPD has used Facebook Causes to
fundraise for the organization, making it easier for people connected to AAPD to donate to
the organization. To become a member of AAPD’s various social networks, visit
www.aapd.com/membership/socialnetworking.
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AAPD 2008 Sponsors
AARP
Achieva
AdvaMed
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Allsup
American Airlines
American Association for Justice
American Diabetes Association
American Express
American International Group, Inc.
Amerigroup
AMS Management Services, Inc.
Amplified Public Affairs, LLC
Amtrak
Aid Association for the Blind of the District of Columbia
AT&T
Bayer MaterialScience
Bender Consulting Services, Inc.
BNY Mellon
Burton Blatt Institute
The Boeing Company
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Centech Group, Inc.
Charlie Huebner
Cheryl W. Sensenbrener
Christopher & Dana Reeve Spinal Cord Injury and Paralysis Foundation
Chrysler Group LLC
Clear Channel Communications, Inc.
Comcast
Communication Access Center for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Communications Workers of America
Consumer Electronics Association
Cornell University
Council for Community Accessibility
CTIA – The Wireless Association
Daimler Chrysler Corporation
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
DCI Group
Digital Federal Credit Union
DIRECTV
Disney World Services, inc.
Dow Chemical Company
Duke Energy
Emerging Leaders
Epilepsy Foundation
Equal Rights Center
FedEx
Foley & Lardner, LLP
Fox Group
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FOXKISER
Freddie Mac
Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust
Gallaudet University
General Electric Company
Goldman Sachs
Hammerman & Fisch Foundation
HealthSouth
Hewlett-Packard
Highmark, Inc.
Hill & Knowlton
Honeywell
Hunter College
IBM
Independence Technology L.L.C.
InterContinental Hotels Group
Invacare
John Kemp
Jones Day
Joyce Bender, Bender Consulting Services, Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Judith E. Heumann
Kellogg's Corporate Citizenship Fund
Kindred HealthCare
LANXESS
Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Education Fund
Liberty Resources, Inc
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Lucy R. Waletzky
Margaret Staton
Marwood Group
MEDRAD, Inc.
MELE Associates, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
Milbank Foundation for Rehabilitation
Mine Safety Appliances (MSA)
Minnesota State Council on Disability
Mitsubishi Electric America
Foundation
Mozzila Foundation
National Association of Broadcasters
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
National Structured Settlements Trade Association
NISH
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Novartis Ophthalmics
NSSTA
Oshkosh Corporation
Office on Disability Employment Policy
Paralyzed Veteran of America
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Patton Boggs LLP
Personal Care Product Council
Pfizer Inc.
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC
Pride Mobility Products
Ralph F. Boyd, Jr.
Recording Industry Association of America
Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
Robert J. Dole
Robert Morris University
SAP America, Inc.
Services Employees International Union
Sirius Satellite Radio
Social Security Administration
Sprint Nextel Corporation
State of Rhode Island
Sunoco, Inc.
SunTrust, Inc.
Telecommunication for the Deaf
Tenacity, Inc.
The Ability Center of Greater Toledo
The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
The Centech Group, Inc.
The Kim Foundation
The HSC Foundation
Thomas J. Starnes
Time Warner, Inc.
T-Mobile USA, Inc.
TMP Worldwide Advertising & Communications, LLC
Tony Coelho
Tracfone Wireless, Inc.
US Business Leadership Network
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Department of Labor
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
U.S. Olympic Committee
U.S. Paralympics
United Airlines
United Cerebral Palsy
United Spinal Association
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
UPS
Verizon
Viacom International, Inc.
Virginia Commonwealth University
Visa
VITAC
Wal-Mart
Walter & Leslie Schmid
Wells Fargo Bank, NA
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Wisconsin Energy Corporation Foundation
Yoshiko Dart
AAPD 2008 Financial Information
January 1 - December 31, 2008
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
General Contributions
Annual Gala Sponsorships
Other Events Including DMD & ADA Anniversary
Board Contribution
Membership fees
Government grants
Service Fees & Honoraria
Investment Income
Other
TOTAL PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE
825,788
983,675
210,000
13,834
289,026
164,761
110,127
37,506
899
2,635,617
PROGRAM SERVICES
TOTAL SUPPORTING EXPENSES
TOTAL EXPENSES
2,249,040
725,280
2,974,320
CHANGE IN NET ASSETS
NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR
NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR
(338,702)
1,655,114
1,316,412
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents
Investments
Accrued Interest
Accounts receivable
Unconditional promises to give
Prepaid expenses
FIXED ASSETS
Deposits
Total Assets
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS CURRENT LIABILITIES
NET ASSETS
Unrestricted
Board designated
Temporarily restricted
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
401,978
698,628
14,299
190,791
241,000
4,804
8,647
11,518
1,571,665
255,254
1,018,448
195,888
102,075
1,517,665
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AAPD 2008 Board of Directors
OFFICERS
Cheryl Sensenbrenner, Chair
Disability Rights Advocate
The Honorable Tony Coelho, Vice-Chair
Disability Rights Advocate
Edward Kennedy, Jr., Secretary
Marwood Group
Joyce Bender, Treasurer
Bender Consulting Services, Inc
Helen Roth, Immediate Past Chair
Disability Policy Consultant
BOARD MEMBERS
Ralph Boyd, Jr.
Freddie Mac
Kelby Brick
Hands On Video Relay Services
Linda Chavez-Thompson
AFL-CIO American Airlines
Robert Coward, Jr
Capital Area ADAPT
John Dziennik
Blanche Fischer Foundation
Wendy Elliott-Vandivier
Elliott-Vandivier, Hibbs. & Associates, LLC
B. Keith Fulton
Verizon
Alison A. Hillman
Mental Disability Rights International
Ambassador Bradley Holmes
Global Telecommunications & IT Consultant
Gregg Howard
Independence Technology
Andrew J. Imparato
President and CEO, AAPD
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Richard Knowles
SAP Americas
Will Ris
American Airlines
Leslie Schmid
Disability Rights Advocate
James Weisman
United Spinal Association
Frances West
IBM Human Ability & Accessibility Center
Betsy Buttrill White
Economics Consultant
Betty Williams
Arc of Indiana
Tony Young
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Message from AAPD’s 2009 Board Chair Tony Coelho
Dear Friends:
At the very beginning of AAPD, I was asked to become one of the organization’s founders.
I agreed because I wanted to not just let the individuals and organizations that came
together to support the Americans with Disabilities Act rest on their laurels. I knew that
passing the law was a big step – but by no means the only step in our community’s fight
for equality. I knew we’d have to have a cross-disability organization aggressively working
on not only implementing the law but on organizing the community to be a force for
change.
I realized it would take a major mobilization effort to keep that going. AAPD was that effort.
It was AAPD’s co-founder and first President and CEO Paul Hearne’s idea, and we rallied
behind it.
As board chair of AAPD, I have certain goals for the organization to make sure we’re able
to continue organizing the disability community to be a powerful voice for change –
politically, economically, and socially.
I want to help move AAPD down a financial path where we can grow to have a sound
financial base. If we have a solid fiscal foundation, we can do ten times more than we are
already doing.
In the next few years, I’d also like to see AAPD get more involved in the legal and judicial
arena. I want to see us help young people with disabilities get interested in law school,
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and, in turn, I’d like to see law schools more interested and engaged in attracting law
students with disabilities to their schools. I also want to see more law firms interested in
attracting law students with disabilities to their firms. I’d like to see an increase in the
number of lawyers with disabilities practicing in the federal court system. Having people
with disabilities involved in the legal system as lawyers and judges is important to AAPD
and to the disability community as a whole because people with disabilities would be
bringing a real understanding of disability issues to their interpretation of federal laws.
Another goal is to continue engaging young people with disabilities to become active
members of the disability community. It’s up to us to organize young people with
disabilities to be a very vocal, effective grassroots force to help change the way people
perceive those of us with disabilities.
Today, our problem isn’t as much legal as much as it is attitudinal. We can change that by
empowering the next generation of leaders in the disability community.
Many of our programs, including our internship programs and leadership awards and our
Disability Mentoring Day program, are already helping achieve these goals. Our other
programs, like our Disability Vote Project, Technology Initiative, Employment programs
and Interfaith Initiative, help organize our community and create accessibility for people
with disabilities to live and fully participate in our communities.
We thank our sponsors for their support, which allows us to continue doing our
programmatic work, which, in turn, helps us achieve our organizational goals and my
goals as board chair.
And thank you to our members, board of directors, donors, volunteers, advocates and
staff of AAPD for helping us work to achieve the successes highlighted in this annual
report, and for helping us reach the goals we’ve set going forward.
Tony Coelho
AAPD at a Glance 2009 – Highlights
In a year of economic hardship for many, AAPD redoubled its efforts through our
advocacy, programmatic work, and commitment to cultivating disability leaders in our
community. AAPD was actively involved in the confirmation process of now-Associate
Justice Sonia Sotomayor, a woman with a disability who had a strong judicial record on
disability issues prior to her nomination to the Supreme Court. In addition, AAPD worked
to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities both in the 10th year of
our Disability Mentoring Day program and through our participation in the Campaign for
Disability Employment. AAPD also helped honor both emerging and existing leaders in the
disability community through our two annual events, our AAPD Leadership Gala and our
Justice For All Awards.
IMPROVING ACCESS TO JUSTICE
In August 2009, Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor was confirmed to the U.S. Supreme
Court after receiving the support of the disability community, including AAPD, based on
her disability rights record.
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AAPD worked with the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law to analyze and disseminate
Sotomayor’s record to our grassroots community. AAPD signed on to a letter of support to
Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Ranking Member Jeff Sessions. We
attended several rallies in support of Sotomayor and worked with civil rights organizations
to campaign for Sotomayor’s confirmation.
For the first time, AAPD interns were allowed to attend Sotomayor’s confirmation
hearings. As a result, people with disabilities were represented in the Senate Judiciary
Committee hearing room.
AAPD President and CEO Andrew Imparato praised Sotomayor’s confirmation at the time,
saying she “is a true champion for equal justice under law, and will follow in the tradition of
Justices Thurgood Marshall and William Brennan to bring some balance to a court that
has gone out of its way to undermine disability rights and civil rights more broadly.”
INCREASING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
In 2009, AAPD joined a collaborative effort called The Campaign for Disability
Employment (CDE) (www.whatcanyoudocampaign.org) to improve hiring, retention,
promotion, and advancement of people with disabilities by changing attitudes and
expectations of employers, co-workers, people with disabilities, and their friends and
families.
The campaign’s core theme: at work, it’s what people can do that matters. And, every day,
people with disabilities can and do add value to America’s employers and economy.
The CDE began as a collaborative effort between AAPD, the National Business and
Disability Council (NBDC), Special Olympics (SO), and the U.S. Business Leadership
Network (USBLN). The Campaign is supported by West Virginia University, receives
technical assistance from the Job Accommodation Network (JAN), and is funded by the
Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP)/US Department of Labor. In 2010, the CDE
expanded to include business-focused organizations and organizations serving individuals
across the full diversity spectrum. These organizations include the National Council of
LaRaza, the National Gay and Lesbian Chamber of Commerce, and the Society for
Human Resource Management.
In its first year, the CDE launched an online video contest which received more than 100,
60-second public service announcements (PSAs) produced by individuals answering the
question “What Can YOU Do?” The CDE created a professionally produced “I Can” video
and PSAs for national distribution. The CDE also developed an interactive website to
share its message with employers, employees, job seekers, and youth with disabilities.
In October 2009, more than 1,500 people attended the national launch of AAPD’s
Disability Mentoring Day (DMD) program, which celebrated its 10th anniversary. AAPD
selected Duluth, MN, to host its 10th anniversary DMD launch because of the
collaborative efforts of more than 60 volunteers on the planning committee in northern
Minnesota. These volunteers have created one of the largest DMD programs in a nonmetropolitan area in the country.
In its first decade DMD has grown from a one-day job-shadowing event at the White
House in 1999 to include activities involving more than 20,000 students and jobseekers
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with disabilities in every state, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and in 23 foreign
countries.
Highlights of the event included a keynote delivered by Assistant Secretary Kathy
Martinez from the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Disability Employment Policy
(ODEP) and the debut of DisabilityMentor.net, AAPD’s new DMD website.
LEADERSHIP
An important part of AAPD’s mission is championing young leaders in the disability
community and honoring those whose leadership has helped further AAPD’s mission.
AAPD’s two annual events, the AAPD Leadership Gala, held in March, and AAPD’s
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) anniversary event and Justice For All Award
program, held each July on or around July 26, celebrate and honor leaders in our
community for their continuing work.
In 2008, AAPD presented Eric Rosenthal with the Henry B. Betts Award for pioneering the
field of international human rights advocacy for people with disabilities and bringing
unprecedented international awareness to their concerns. Brett Eisenberg, a young leader
whose work and influence in corporate America who is helping people with disabilities find
employment and Rahnee K. Patrick, a young disability rights movement organizer who is
particularly passionate about working to help youth and students with disabilities, received
the Paul G. Hearne/AAPD Leadership Award. Patricia Bowden, President of Transport
Workers Union Local 252, received the Linda Chavez-Thompson Award and Daniel Gade,
Associate Director for Domestic Policy, Domestic Policy Council, received the Spirit of the
ADA Award.
In 2009, AAPD presented the Paul G. Hearne/AAPD Leadership Award to three young
leaders with disabilities, Maureen McKinnon-Tucker, Stephanie Enyart, and Victor Pineda.
McKinnon-Tucker is a 2008 Paralympic gold medal winner who was the first woman to
represent the U.S. in sailing at the games. She wants to increase access to sailing
recreation for both disabled children and adults. Enyart is a founding member of the
National Association of Law Students with Disabilities and has plans to launch a national
organization for lawyers with disabilities. Pineda is the founder and president of The Victor
Pineda Foundation, an educational non-profit that promotes the rights of young people
with disabilities.
AAPD’s ADA anniversary event and Justice For All Awards program recognizes
individuals who have contributed in extraordinary ways to increase the political and
economic power of people with disabilities. AAPD presented Justice For All Awards in
2008 to Representatives Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) and Ed Markey (D-MA); Carol
Westlake, Executive Director of the Tennessee Disability Coalition; and Mark Boxer,
recently retired executive from Wellpoint, Inc. National Public Radio’s Joe Shapiro
received the first Judy Woodruff and Al Hunt Award for Media Excellence.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan presented the keynote speech at AAPD’s ADA
anniversary event and Justice For All Awards program in 2009. AAPD presented Justice
For All Awards to Senators Patrick J. Leahy (D-VT) and Sam Brownback (R-KS); Russ
Owen, President of the Computer Sciences Corporation Managed Services Sector; Sandy
Finucane, Vice President for Legal & Government Affairs, Epilepsy Foundation of America
and best-selling author, Karin Slaughter.
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INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL COALITION BUILDING
After years of lobbying from the disability community, the United States signed the U.N.
Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in July 2009.
The U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is the most comprehensive
international treaty on the rights of persons with disabilities in history. It has significant
overlap with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the other U.S. laws protecting
disability rights.
President Barack Obama promised to sign the treaty during the 2008 presidential
campaign. He fulfilled that campaign promise with a signing ceremony at the White
House. He was joined on the stage at the ceremony by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton,
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis, Senator Daniel
Inouye (D-HI), Representative Steny Hoyer (D-MD), Representative Robert Andrews (DNJ), Representative James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), and Representative Jim Langevin (DRI). Many members of the disability community attended the signing, including AAPD
board chair Tony Coelho and AAPD’s President and CEO Andrew Imparato. U.S.
Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice signed the U.N. Convention on the Rights
of Persons with Disabilities at the organization's headquarters in New York City a few days
later.
The fastest negotiated international human rights treaty ever, the Convention has enjoyed
unprecedented international support and record-setting numbers of signatures. The
signing of the treaty by the United States was one of AAPD’s most important priorities,
and the ratification of the treaty by the U.S. was a great accomplishment for AAPD and the
disability community.
In 2009, AAPD was one of the founding members of the Justice For All Action Network
(JFAAN), a coalition led by 13 national organizations run by people with disabilities with
identifiable grassroots constituencies around the country.
The steering committee of JFAAN includes ADAPT, the American Association of People
with Disabilities, the American Council of the Blind, the Autistic Self Advocacy Network,
the Hearing Loss Association of America, Little People of America, the National
Association of the Deaf, the National Coalition of Mental Health Consumer Survivor
Organizations, the National Council on Independent Living, the National Federation of the
Blind, Not Dead Yet, Self Advocates Becoming Empowered, and the United Spinal
Association.
This coalition created the Spirit of the ADA Campaign Agenda, which has the groups
working together to realize the promise of the ADA by advancing a policy agenda that will
safeguard human rights and respect human dignity, enhance self-determination, and
make technology work for everyone.
To see the whole Spirit of the ADA Campaign Agenda, visit
http://jfactivist.typepad.com/jfactivist/2010/02/ sign-on-jfaan-spirit-of-the-ada-campaignagenda.html
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AAPD 2009 Sponsors
Ability Center
AdvaMed
Aid Association for the Blind of the District of Columbia
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Allsup
Allstate
American Airlines
AARP
Amerigroup Corp
Amplified Public Affairs, LLC
Apple Inc.
AT&T
Bank of New York Mellon
Bayer MaterialScience
Bender Consulting Services, Inc.
Book Hill Partners
Broydrick & Associates, Inc.
Chartis
Cheryl & Jim Sensenbrener
Clear Channel Communications, Inc
Coalition for Secure Driver's License
Comcast
Cornell University
CSC
Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Digital Federal Credit Union
DIRECTV
Department of Labor Office of Disability Employment Policy
Easter Seals
Economic Systems, Inc.
Edison Electric Institute
Eli Lilly and Company
Epilepsy Foundation
EPS Settlements Group, Inc.
FedEx
Field Vision Productions
Foley and Lardner, LLP
Fox Group
FOXKISER
Freddie Mac
Freddie Mac Foundation
Gallaudet University
Getting Hired LLC
Groundspring.Org
Highmark, Inc.
HealthSouth
Honeywell
HSC Foundation
Hunter College
IBM
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Independence First
Independence Technology
Invacare
Job Accommodation Network
John Hancock
Johnson & Johnson
Judith E. Heumann
K & L Gates
Kellogg's Corporate Citizenship Fund
Kindred HealthCare
LANXESS
Lockheed Martin
Lucy R. Waletzky
Mangelsdorf, Lewis & Davidson, Inc.
Marwood Group
Merck & Co
Microsoft Corporation
Millennium Settlements
Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation
National Cable & Telecommunications Association
National Rural Electric Cooperative Association
NBC Universal
NEC Foundation of America
New York Life
NISH
Noramco, Inc.
Northrop Grumman
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp
NSSTA Allstate
NSSTA John Hancock
NSSTA New York Life
NSSTA Pacific Life
NSSTA Prudential
Pacific Life & Annuity Company
Paralyzed Veteran of America
Pfizer, Inc.
Powers Pyles Sutter & Verville PC
Price Waterhouse Coopers
Pride Mobility Products
Prudential
Recording Industry Association of America
Ringer Associates
Robert J. Dole
Sam’s Club
SAP America, Inc.
Service Corporation International
Social Security Administration
Stephen L Hammerman
Structured Financial Associates
Ted Kennedy, Jr.
Telecommunication for the Deaf, Inc.
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Tenacity, Inc.
The City University of New York
The Kim Foundation
The Normandy Group, LLC
Time Warner Cable
Time Warner, Inc.
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Education
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
U.S. Olympic Committee
U.S. Paralympics
United Spinal Association
Universal City Studios LLP
University of Iowa
University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Verizon
Vicky Tsilas & Demetri Koutrouvelis
Virginia Commonwealth University
Visa
Wal-Mart
Walt Disney Company
Waypoint Advisors, LLC
West Virginia University
Wisconsin Energy Corporation Foundation
AAPD 2009 Financial Report
January 1 -December 31, 2009
STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES AND CHANGES IN NET ASSETS
General Contributions
Annual Gala Sponsorships
Other Events Including DMD & ADA Anniversary
Board Contribution
Membership fees
Government grants
Service Fees & Honoraria
Investment Income
Other
TOTAL PUBLIC SUPPORT AND REVENUE
1,057,901
790,703
65,100
11,915
206,467
365,277
29,306
16,302
688
2,543,659
PROGRAM SERVICES
TOTAL SUPPORTING EXPENSES
TOTAL EXPENSES
1,934,597
511,644
2,446,241
CHANGE IN NET ASSETS
NET ASSETS, BEGINNING OF YEAR
NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR
97,418
1,316,412
1,413,830
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION ASSETS
Cash and cash equivalents
Investments
Accrued Interest
Accounts receivable
Unconditional promises to give
Prepaid expenses
FIXED ASSETS
Deposits
Total Assets
LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS CURRENT LIABILITIES
NET ASSETS
Unrestricted
Board designated
Temporarily restricted
TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS
834,721
24,892
265,310
324,000
19,976
34,350
5,518
1,508,767
94,939
726,302
195,888
491,639
1,508,767
AAPD 2009 Board of Directors
OFFICERS
The Honorable Tony Coelho
Chair
Disability Rights Activist
The Honorable Ralph Boyd, Jr.
Vice-Chair
Freddie Mac
Joyce A. Bender
Secretary
Bender Consulting Services, Inc.
Meredith Ryan-Reid
Treasurer
Vice President & Producer, MARSH USA, Inc.
Cheryl Sensenbrenner
Immediate Past Chair
Disability Rights Advocate
BOARD MEMBERS
Day Al-Mohamed
American Psychological Association
Kelby Brick
Purple Communications
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Robert “Bobby” Coward
Capital Area ADAPT
John Dziennik
Blanche Fischer Foundation
Wendy Elliott-Vandivier
Elliott-Vandivier, Hibbs & Associates, LLC
B. Keith Fulton
Verizon
Mitch Glazier
Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
Claudia Gordon
DEAFinate Possibilities, Inc.
Alison A. Hillman
Mental Disability Rights International
Andrew J. Imparato
President and CEO, AAPD
Edward Kennedy Jr.
Marwood Group
Rahnee K. Patrick
Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago
Will Ris
American Airlines
Helen Roth
Disability Policy Consultant
Laura Sanford
AT&T Foundation
Margaret Stanton
ELA Foundation
Eric Vaughn
Bookhill Partners
James Weisman
United Spinal Association
Betsy Buttrill White
Economics Consultant
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Betty Williams
Arc of Indiana
Tony Young
NISH
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