Rebuilding Hope: Veterans & Others w Disabilities

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Summary

People with disabilities need jobs, encouragement. Veterans with disabilities also need tangible ways to recover from trauma. Help us hire & train talented people with disabilities, including vets.

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

A chilling rule of thumb in war zones: for every person killed, another 10 are disabled. Here in the SF Bay area, veterans are returning home with serious brain injuries and post traumatic stress disorder. In addition, other people with disabilities find it increasingly harder to find jobs in our competitive world. The Rebuilding Alliance won the Employer of the Year Award for hiring people w disabilities who learned state-of-art software. We want to expand and hire 5 more.

Activities

Find and hire 3-5 persons with disabilities part time, to join our development team and learn salesforce.com technology. They’ll help organize speaking tours, connect with donors, join building project telecons, write for our teamblog, build buzz.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $210
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $27,923
Total Funding Goal: $28,133

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Excel file (projdoc.xls).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

We start by hiring a team with disabilities, to help the Rebuilding Alliance grow. Phase 2 becomes a job training program incl. job placement in Silicon Valley. Phase 3 expands overseas, into a job training program for people w disabilities there.

Project Message

I believe by rebuilding homes and communities, we help people shape their lives back together. That’s especially true for the disabled, who, despite obstacles, can do anything they set their minds to
- Monica Quinn, Clerical Assistant at the Rebuilding Alliance

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Donna Baranski-Walker,
Executive Director
457 Kingsley Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94301
United States
650 325-4663
Email:

Project Sponsor

Marketplace 2005

Organization

The Rebuilding Alliance
457 Kingsley Avenue
Palo Alto, CA USA
United States
650 325 4663
http://www.RebuildingAlliance.org

Learn more about The Rebuilding Alliance and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Economic Development.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 21, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on August 12, 2008.

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