In April 2020, Sandy Ho, Monika Mitra, director of the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, and Susan Eaton, director of the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy, published “Civic Engagement and People With Disabilities: A Way Forward Through Cross-Movement Building,” with financial support from the Ford Foundation. This report highlights the barriers that people with disabilities encounter when trying to make substantive change in their communities, and how philanthropy, disability rights groups and civic engagement organizations can support leadership among disabled people.
“Informed by this report, we are better equipped to support efforts to build capacity and knowledge on disability justice in order to ensure that every voice in our society is heard through cross-movement collaboration.” — Claribel Vidal, Program Associate, Civic Engagement and Government at the Ford Foundation