Monthly archive May 2009

The National Black Disabled Coalition Speakers' Bureau features speakers of color with disabilities from across the United States and it's territories.

Our panel group is the Cultural Collective, a panel of collective voices from the Native American, African-American, Asian & Pacific Islander and Latina communities. Each panelist presents their own rich ethnic/disability experience and finds common ground in race and disability intersections.

When you work with an NBDC Speakers’ Bureau member you know you are working with a trained professional who understands disability and disability issues that affect communities of color. Contact us today!

National Black Disabled Coalition (NBDC), a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is a national response to the need for Blacks with Disabilities in America to organize around issues of mutual concern and use our collective strength to address disability issues from all communities of color.

The goals of the NBDC are:

•    To foster OPPORTUNITY for ethnic minority individuals with disabilities;

•    To promote UNITY among ethnic minority individuals with disabilities, our families, and our communities; and

•    To advance EQUITY within the disability movement, our home communities, and our country.

We believe that people with disabilities from ethnic minority communities should unite to obtain and secure the rights and privileges of full participation in our communities and in our country. Using strategies from the civil rights movement, NBDC seeks to achieve personal growth, collective power, and societal inclusion for people with disabilities from all communities of color.

We foster opportunity by gathering and disseminating information to communities of color about the disability movement, disability rights, and disability services. We offer venues for original works that support our mission.

Membership is an invaluable component of the National Black Disabled Coalition. Membership supports the continued existence of NBDC initiatives. As our membership grows so does our opportunity to make a difference.

Anyone who supports the mission of NBDC irrespective or race, religion, political affiliation and ideology can become a member of NBDC.

Here is what members get from joining:

Corporate

• CLEMSON UNIVERSITY "CALL ME MISTER" PROGRAM for African-American males.

• DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR BLACK STUDENTS IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY 

• HBCU MINORITY STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS

• JACKI TUCKFILED MEMORIAL FUND 

• NATIONAL MERIT SCHOLARSHIP CORPORATION (NMSC) - for Outstanding Black American  Students