Happening Now March 2025

Newsletter

• Reimagining Disability Inclusion and Belonging. Start now with March's Newsletter
• What Our Community is saying about President Trump's DEI Executive Order Statements from National Organization on Disability, AAPD, Center for Disability Inclusion, Disability Belongs
• March is Women's History Month. Learn more about 2025 Women's History Month.

Webinars

• March 10th at 12 to 1 pm ET: DEI Enforcement: False Claims Act and Other Risks on the Horizon, featuring Craig Leen, DC Metro Advisory Board member. Register to attend this important event.
• February 19th: Disability:IN Affiliates Featuring Chicago, DC, MN and NC - “Affiliate Innovative Practice- Low Cost- Maximize Employer Outreach”. Recording available soon.
• February 5th: K&L Gates Webinar DEI and EEO in the Second Trump Presidency. Watch Craig Leen's Webinar.

Disability:IN DC Metro Lunch & Learns

• February 26th at 12 to 1 pm EST: DEI EO Craig Leen. Watch Craig Leen's Lunch & Learn Recording. Use the following Passcode (without the quotes) "ixEI6np."
• [TO BE RESCHEDULED] The 6th Annual State of Digital Accessibility Report: A Summary by our Chief Accessibility Officer.
• April 9th at 12 to 1:30 pm: Distinguishing Disability Inclusion from Affirmative Action. Affiliate Collaborative Program. Register to attend the Affiliate Collaborative Program and use Promo code "ChicagolandPartner".

About DC Metro

• Disability:IN DC Metro Board Leading Disability Inclusion in the DC metro area and beyond.
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Are you looking for proven ways to increase your organization's disability inclusion?

The Disability:IN DC Metro is the local best-practice business resource for you!

Vision

Cultivate workforces and workplaces where talent with disabilities are recruited, included, promoted, retained and valued as both internal talent and innovative vendors.

Mission

Building the business network for disability inclusion.

Our focus is on Culture Change!

Disability:IN^®

We are the local affiliate of Disability:IN^®, formerly the USBLN^®.

Affiliates Matter

If your company operates in any of the 25 states that our 30 sister affiliates* are located, you should consider engagement in these local chapters. It’s at the local level that meaningful engagement occurs and enables your local leaders, your ERG Members and your employees to understand and model disability inclusion.

*There are also former affiliates, including VirginiaAbility, that serves the Metro Richmond, VA area and is an organization to join if your company has representation in that geography.

National Representation:

If your company operates nationally, then you should consider joining Disability:IN and attending the Annual National Conference for a national peer to peer dialog.

Branding your company:

As members local and national (if appropriate) is critical and will serve to draw talent with disabilities to your company, engage and retain your current workforce with disabilities and include disability-owned businesses in your supply chain.