Happening Now
- Review November Newsletter and Take Inclusive Action.
- Plan for International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPWD) on December 3, 2024). Learn more about Disability:IN IDPWD Celebration.
- Celebrate Veterans. Veterans Day - U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
- This month, we invite our members to join our Veterans PRG in honor of Veterans Day 2024. Join us at our January meeting. Contact Ron Drach.
- Accolades coming in for the October 30th webinar co-hosted with AIR "Leading with Authentic Inclusion™: Leadership, Disability, and AI" featuring Frances West, former IBM Chief Accessibility Officer.
- Disability:IN DC Metro Board Leading Disability Inclusion in the DC metro area and beyond.
- Check out our New Member Benefits
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.