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Today, we’re excited to share that we’ve been
selected to receive a $2 million gift as an awardee of the
Yield Giving Open Call. Our project was selected from among 6,353
applications from all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto
Rico after a process of multiple levels of review, feedback,
and diligence involving peer applicants and an external
Evaluation Panel recruited for experience relevant to this
cause.
As
you, our supporters, know, Able SC is a disability-led
organization seeking transformational changes in systems,
communities, and individuals. Since 1994, we have remained a
consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability
nonprofit that seeks to make South Carolina a national model of
equity and inclusion for all people with disabilities. Able SC
is South Carolina’s oldest and largest federally recognized
disability-led organization. We practice equity, disability
justice and representation, and true inclusion through
consumer-driven independence and disability pride. Able SC is
on a mission to equip people with disabilities with tools to
foster pride and to direct their own lives, educate the
community to challenge stereotypes and eliminate barriers, and
advocate for access, equity, and inclusion at the individual,
local, state, and national levels.
“Able South Carolina is thrilled and overjoyed
to be selected not only to receive this gift from Yield Giving
but also as one of the top-rated organizations in the nation,”
shared Able SC President and CEO Kimberly Tissot. "This gift brings
our vision closer to reality. With $2 million, we will invest
this towards our BIG goals of developing a nationally
recognized disability-led initiative. We look
forward to how this amazing gift will impact the next
generation of disabled leaders and allies.”
"We
are excited that our partnership with Yield Giving has
resonated with so many organizations," said Cecilia
Conrad, CEO of Lever for Change. "In a world teeming with
potential and talent, the Open Call has given us an opportunity
to identify, uplift, and empower transformative organizations
that often remain unseen.”
More
information on the Yield Giving Open Call and other initiatives
can be found at www.leverforchange.org.
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