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2000 N.O.D. Annual Report

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N.O.D. 2000 Annual Report

Closing The Gap: Toward Full and Equal Participation

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A Message From:
Chairman Michael R. Deland and
President Alan A. Reich

Like many others throughout the world setting their sights on the millennium as a turning point for improvement in the human condition, the National Organization on Disability and America's disability community focused on the year 2000 as a time when our hopes and dreams might be realized. Were they?

No.

But was there progress?

Yes.

For the nation's 54 million of us with disabilities, the decade leading up to the millennium began with great expectations when President George Bush, now Honorary Chairman of N.O.D., signed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) into law on July 26, 1990. While the ADA remains a beacon of hope, attainment of its — and our — goal of full and equal participation in all aspects of life is still a dream deferred.

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the ADA, we chose to assess progress and provide a benchmark for future measurement. In July at a U.S. Capitol event hosted by Senator Max Cleland, N.O.D. released the findings of the fourth in the series of Harris surveys measuring the gaps in the levels of participation between people with and without disabilities in all the aspects of life important to our population —in employment, education, community activities, religious participation, voting, transportation and health-care. In this annual report you will find that the 2000 N.O.D./Harris Survey of Americans with Disabilities concludes that the gaps are still pervasive. Only 32 percent of working age individuals with disabilities are in the workforce, compared to 81 percent of the non-disabled. The poverty level of those with disabilities is far greater than it is of other Americans. Major gaps also persist in most of the other areas we surveyed and reported to the nation.

"The 2000 N.O.D./ Harris Survey of Americans with Disabilities...found that people with disabilities are three times more likely to live in poverty." — The Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 25, 2000

What we have learned over this past decade is that progress comes slowly, and that we and the other disability groups with whom we cooperate must continue the struggle on many fronts.

Although we have not yet closed these participation gaps, the progress N.O.D. and America marked last year is solid preparation for the future. The results of 10 years of ADA implementation are significant. There now exist far more accessible public facilities and businesses. Technological innovations are beginning to reach and benefit people with disabilities. More people are speaking openly about their disabilities and participating in community life, thus helping to overturn negative attitudes. More people with disabilities, like N.O.D. Vice Chairman Christopher Reeve, are serving as role models and are helping others. Legislation and government programs increasingly include our minority. More people with disabilities are becoming advocates and are speaking out on our behalf. The media is representing people with disabilities more accurately.

N.O.D. is at the center of this progress, which augurs well for the future. The long march toward full participation can now proceed at an accelerated and measurable pace. N.O.D. will continue to lead this effort to ensure that the nation keeps moving forward. In 2000 we reoriented our own N.O.D. programs as directed by the Board's Strategic Planning Committee in 1999, so that they focus on closing these participation gaps.

As a first step in implementing the new strategy, we invested heavily this past year to upgrade our website, so that our program directors can use this tool to mobilize key groups necessary to close the gaps. To focus more purposefully on gap-closing, we reshaped our successful VOTE! 2000 Campaign as the new N.O.D. Political Participation Program. We also launched the new N.O.D. EmployAbility Program.

N.O.D. and the entire disability community celebrated historical achievements such as the tenth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act and the signing by President Clinton of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Act. Yet there is no achievement of more import to N.O.D. than the dedication by President Clinton on January 10, 2001 at the FDR Memorial in Washington, D.C. of the FDR Wheelchair Statue. This concluded a six-year campaign led by N.O.D. To learn more about the campaign, visit our website at http://www.nod.org.

"...according to a Harris poll, 22% of people with disabilities do not complete high school, compared with 9% of non-disabled people." — Los Angeles Times, July 28, 2000

In 1998 N.O.D. formed the Rendezvous with Destiny Campaign Committee, which was led by Co-Chairs Anne Roosevelt, granddaughter of FDR, and N.O.D. Chairman Michael Deland, to raise monies for the statue. Honorary Chairmen of the Committee were former Presidents Bush, Carter and Ford. The Committee continued its activities through 2000 and raised the needed $1.65 million.

"Franklin's illness gave him strength and courage he had not had before. He had to think out the fundamentals of living and learn the greatest of all lessons - infinite patience and never-ending persistence." — Eleanor Roosevelt (inscription at the FDR Memorial)

The statue would not have been possible without the generosity of N.O.D. Board member Peter Kovler and his family and Gordon and Llura Gund. The Kovler $1,000,000 gift, and the Gund $500,000 gift, made our dream a reality. The gift by Mr. Gund, who is blind, typified the commitment by people with all types of disabilities to the addition of the Wheelchair Statue. N.O.D. and all its supporters can be proud of giving the world the only statue depicting a head of state with a disability. Without question, the statue will inspire people at home and abroad, disabled and non-disabled alike, for generations to come.

To further memorialize the contribution of FDR to the disability movement, N.O.D. established the FDR Legacy Fund as an outgrowth of the Rendezvous with Destiny Campaign. This Fund will help sponsor programs that are inspired by FDR's commitment to equality, opportunity and access for all. The EmployAbility Program will be the first beneficiary of contributions received through the Legacy Fund.

The impact of the statue of FDR in a wheelchair will extend globally through N.O.D.'s World Committee on Disability. A replica of the statue will be given to the recipient of the FDR International Disability Award. N.O.D.'s World Committee presents this award annually, in partnership with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, to the head of state of a nation making noteworthy national progress on disability. (Please see page 14).

N.O.D.'s Board of Directors has charted an exciting course of action for the organization. It emphasizes increased communications, an enhanced website, the use of the stirring image of the FDR wheelchair statue, and creative gap-closing programs.

"Although the U.S. unemployment rate is now 4.1%, the lowest in 30 years, the unemployment rate among the nation's 54 million disabled residents of working age is now 71%, reports the National Organization on Disability." — Boston Globe, May 14, 2000

N.O.D. will continue to work vigorously to pave the way for the full and equal participation and contribution by the nation's largest minority —54 million men, women and children with disabilities. There is much work yet to be done to close the gaps that keep people with disabilities from participating fully in the American dream.

Twelve days after President George W. Bush took office, he announced his New Freedom Initiative for people with disabilities. Thus ended a seminal year and began another, as N.O.D. works with the new administration to follow through on President Bush's bright promise to the disability community. We hold great hopes and expectations for people with disabilities, not only as participants, but as increasingly important contributors to society.

We extend our thanks to the many volunteers all across America who worked this past year with N.O.D. We also are grateful to the members of our Board of Directors for their spirited leadership, our hard-working staff for their dedication, and our many financial supporters without whom our work would be impossible. Thanks to them, we face the future with confidence.

Closing The Gap: In Political Participation

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Program sponsored by
AARP
The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
The Shefa Fund
Lucy Waletzky, M.D.

Getting Out the Disability Vote

In the United States, there are more than 35 million people with disabilities who are eligible to vote, but in 1996 only 30 percent of Americans with disabilities voted in the Presidential election —20 percentage points lower than those without disabilities. One-quarter of all non-voters are people with disabilities. In order to help close this political participation gap and to ensure that people with disabilities are able to participate more fully as citizens in our democracy, N.O.D. launched the VOTE! 2000 Campaign.

The goal of this non-partisan campaign was to increase voter turnout of people with disabilities by 700,000 in the year 2000 elections. By conducting a nationwide non-partisan get-out-the-vote drive, increasing voter registration, and ensuring that the nation's polling places are accessible to all people with disabilities, N.O.D. achieved this goal in partnership with thirty-six national non-profit organizations who came together for the first time for such a campaign.

Jim Dickson, Vice President of N.O.D. and Director of the VOTE! 2000 Campaign, traveled to 28 cities across the country. He provided training to hundreds of local coalitions of activists on how to conduct a non-partisan get-out-the-disability-vote drive. These efforts inspired broad-based mobilization and public education efforts.

Implementing Motor Voter

VOTE! 2000 also educated countless other non-profit organizations about the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (Motor Voter). Many disability service providers are in violation of this law, which requires them to offer voter registration to their clients. In conjunction with the League of Women Voters and the AARP, N.O.D. published a get-out-the-disability-vote manual that provided disability service agencies and grassroots activists with the necessary guidelines and tools to conduct effective non-partisan get-out-the-vote drives. This manual is available both in print format and on N.O.D.'s website http://www.nod.org.

In addition, the Campaign worked with the National Task Force on Accessible Elections to produce a guidebook to assist election officials to achieve equal access for all citizens to the polling place and the ballot. The Federal Election Commission mailed this guide, entitled Voting: A Constitutional Right For All Citizens, to every election official across the country.

As a result of all of these efforts, The Harris Poll reported that fourteen million Americans with disabilities cast their vote in last year's election —an increase of almost three million votes from 1996. This cut the voting gap between people with and without disabilities in half, and surpassed N.O.D.'s goal of adding 700,000 new voters with disabilities. In addition, a Harris survey found that 58 percent of disability service providers are offering their clients the opportunity to register to vote, up from 25 percent in 1996.

A Commitment to Full Political Participation

In 2001, the VOTE! 2000 Campaign will become N.O.D.'s Political Participation Program. The focus will be on increasing the number of people with disabilities voting in the November 2001 elections, ensuring the accessibility of polling places and voting systems, promoting compliance by service providers with the National Voter Registration Act, and encouraging people with disabilities to become more active in the political process by volunteering, and/or running for office.

"Fourteen million Americans with disabilities cast their vote in last year's election —an increase of almost three million votes from 1996. This cut the voting gap between people with and without disabilities in half, and surpassed N.O.D.'s goal of adding 700,000 new voters with disabilities." — Humphrey Taylor, Chairman, The Harris Poll

Closing The Gap: In Employment

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Start on Success Program sponsored by
Alcoa Foundation
Allegheny Technologies Charitable Trust
Annie E. Casey Foundation
Bayer Foundation
The Bell Atlantic Foundation
Frick Fund of The Buhl Foundation
Duquesne Light
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
The Grable Foundation
Mr. Bruce Gelb
The J.C. Penney Company
JC Stewart Memorial Trust
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Microsoft Corporation
Mine Safety Appliance Co. Charitable Fdn.
PPG Industries Foundation
T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Frederick Whittemore

An Untapped Labor Source

Of all working age people with disabilities, 44% who say they are able to work are unemployed. Because of the severity of this situation, N.O.D. conducts three programs to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities —the EmployAbility Program, the Start on Success (SOS) Student Internship Program, and the CEO Council.

Focus on Retraining and Rehabilitation

The EmployAbility Program emphasizes improving the rehabilitation and retraining of workers with disabilities ages 45 and over, removing attitudinal barriers, and alleviating employer confusion surrounding hiring practices and benefits. The Program works with industries that are experiencing rapid growth, such as technology and health care, and tries to encourage them to reach out to people with disabilities as a source of labor.

In addition, the program promotes the accessibility of the Internet and communications technologies as a means of increasing employment, encourages the implementation of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentive Improvement Act, and works with educators to emphasize studies in a combined business, technical and language program for students with disabilities.

Recognizing Corporate Commitment

N.O.D.'s CEO Council comprises over 100 leading companies and CEOs who are committed to the expanded employment of people with disabilities. Council members are recognized in donated public service advertisements in BusinessWeek. These ads, which featured N.O.D.'s Vice Chairman Christopher Reeve, ran a dozen times in national and regional editions in 2000. The Chairman of the CEO Council is N.O.D. Board Member J. Harold Chandler, Chairman, President and CEO of UnumProvident Corporation.

In 2000, under the auspices of the CEO Council, N.O.D. sponsored two corporate diversity conferences with the Conference Board, the nation's leading business membership and research organization. Through involvement in these conferences, N.O.D. hopes to influence the business community to include disability in its corporate diversity planning.

Paid Internships for Young People with Disabilities

N.O.D.'s Start on Success (SOS) Student Internship Program provides paid internships to high school students with disabilities so they can acquire the skills and confidence needed to succeed in an increasingly competitive job market. Interns are paired with a job coach and an on-site supervisor and work 10-15 hours a week for 8-30 weeks per academic year. SOS is N.O.D.'s "signature" program as it is the only direct service program of the organization.

Since the program was launched six years ago, SOS has placed over 375 high school students with disabilities in paid internships that reflect their career interests. The program continues to grow and is now in operation in fourteen sites in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, and throughout Ohio and Alabama.

The 1999-2000 school year brought continued expansion in the number of SOS internships, along with gratifying state and federal recognition as a "best practices model" of school-to-work transition. These successes have led to five new program sites and an increase in the number of interns from one hundred in academic year 1998-1999 to two hundred interns in academic year 1999-2000.

Equally important, this increase is being achieved without compromising the quality of the SOS experience. Of those interns graduating from the three urban SOS programs, nearly all have transitioned to full-time employment or further education/training. This represents a remarkable collective achievement by students, teachers, mentors, job site supervisors, service providers and families.

In addition, SOS National Director Charles Dey hosted U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, Judy Heumann, during a visit to the Baltimore SOS site at the University of Maryland and the University of Maryland Medical System. The SOS program was recognized by the Assistant Secretary for its innovative approach to school-to-work transition for young people with disabilities.

People with disabilities represent the single largest and most diverse minority in the United States, and are a major untapped source of high quality employees. Therefore, N.O.D. will continue its efforts to make employment a reality for more people with disabilities.

"I call on America's business leaders to join me in opening opportunities for people with disabilities. It's good for your company, it's good for people with disabilities, and it's good for the nation. Everyone gains!" — J. Harold Chandler, Chairman, President and CEO, UnumProvident Corporation and Chairman, N.O.D. CEO Council

Closing The Gap: In Communities

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National Partnership Program sponsored by
Aetna, Inc.

Improving Access to Community Life

According to the 2000 N.O.D./Harris Survey of Community Participation, 35% of people with disabilities say they are not at all involved in their communities, compared to 21% of their non-disabled counterparts. N.O.D. works to combat these low participation levels through the National Partnership Program (NPP) and the Community Partnership Program (CPP).

National Leadership and Local Action

The NPP consists of 36 national non-disability organizations, whose combined membership totals over 40 million people. These organizations work with N.O.D. to promote the full and equal participation of people with disabilities in community life through their national, state and local affiliates. In addition, N.O.D. works with these National Partners to help them incorporate programs to increase outreach to people with disabilities in the communities they serve, and to encourage greater participation of employees, members and volunteers with disabilities throughout their organizations. Through an annual grant from Aetna, Inc., N.O.D. presents $1,000 to each NPP member to conduct a cash awards competition to recognize outstanding disability programs of local affiliates.

Commitment to Disability Brings Press Attention

Many National Partners present the N.O.D./Aetna Award to their winning chapters in awards ceremonies at their national conferences. When possible, representatives from N.O.D. and Aetna participate. Winning local projects often earn press attention for receiving the award. One example is the Frederick, Maryland Chapter of Big Brothers/Big Sisters project —the Special Needs Mentor Program. This after-school mentor program for students with disabilities received significant mention in the Frederick News Post and the Frederick Gazette Regional News.

In May 2000, N.O.D. and Aetna co-hosted a reception at the U.S. Capitol to announce Aetna's sponsorship of the NPP, and to release the findings of the 2000 N.O.D./Harris Survey of Community Participation, which was sponsored by Aetna. Senator Max Cleland (GA), and William Donaldson, Chairman of Aetna, Inc. shared the master of ceremonies role. Humphrey Taylor, Chairman of The Harris Poll, announced the survey findings, which provided strong evidence of the need for community organizations, such as those in the NPP, to increase their outreach to people with disabilities.

Strengthened Partnerships

Representatives of N.O.D. meet throughout the year with National Partners to discuss ways to increase outreach to people with disabilities. In 2000, NPP Program Officer Taylor Hines gave disability awareness presentations at NPP member staff meetings and at national conferences, and participated in N.O.D./Aetna award ceremonies. Furthermore, N.O.D. provides the NPP members with useful disability-related information for circulation throughout their memberships, as well as articles to include in publications.

In 2001, the NPP will seek to expand its membership, and promote further integration of people with disabilities in community life through the work of the National Partners.

Encouraging Local Action

The Community Partnership Program (CPP) is a network of towns, cities and counties that promote local voluntary commitment and action to expand the participation of people with disabilities in the life of their communities. Each town, city or county is represented by a Community Representative who is appointed by the mayor or chief elected official and serves as liaison to N.O.D. In addition, each governor appoints a State Representative to N.O.D.

Community Representatives, along with a committee of individuals with and without disabilities, identify needs, set objectives, and develop and carry out plans to promote full participation of people with disabilities in communities.

Community Participation Program sponsored by
United Parcel Service

National Awards and Recognition

A key component of the CPP is the $30,000 N.O.D./United Parcel Service (UPS) Community Awards Competition. The cash awards recognize communities that expand the participation of people with disabilities through exceptional local initiatives. The awards are presented by a representative of N.O.D. and UPS to the mayor or chief elected official of the winning community. N.O.D. publishes a booklet (available on N.O.D.'s website) on the winning projects so that others can replicate successful projects.

The $10,000 Grand Prize for 2000 was awarded to Cranston, Rhode Island for its success in bringing people with developmental disabilities into the political process. Cranston's Ocean State Association of Residential Resources provided training on the political process to their consumers, who are primarily people with developmental disabilities. As a result, a "Meet the Candidates Night" was held so that consumers could address prospective elected officials and advocate for issues of particular concern to their constituency. In addition, the consumers attended a government affairs seminar in Washington D.C., and visited their senators and representatives.

In 2001, the CPP will continue to urge towns, cities and counties across America to include people with disabilities so that the community participation gap can begin to close.

National Partners of N. O. D.

Year 2000 N.O.D./UPS Community Awards Competition

$10,000 Grand Prize
Cranston, Rhode Island
$3,500 First Place
St. Paul, Minnesota (Cities Over 50,000)
Orland Park, Illinois (Cities Under 50,000)
Atlantic County, New Jersey (Counties)
$2,500 Second Place
Whittier, California (Cities Over 50,000)
Rockaway Township, New Jersey (Cities Under 50,000)
Hancock County, Indiana (Counties)
$1,500 Third Place
Graves County, Kentucky (Counties) Hillsborough County, Florida (Counties)

Closing The Gap: In Religious Participation

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Program Sponsored by
The Scaife Family Foundation

"True religious access is about opening hearts, minds and doors to millions of Americans with disabilities who seek a full life of faith." — Ginny Thornburgh, Director, N.O.D.'s Religion and Disability Program

Working with Congregations and Communities

Many people with disabilities find places of worship to be less welcoming and accessible than they could be. The Religion and Disability Program works with local congregations, national denominational groups and seminaries to remove architectural, communication and attitudinal barriers that prevent people with disabilities from full and active religious participation.

Ensuring Access to a Full Life of Faith

N.O.D.'s award-winning series of interfaith guides, That All May Worship, Loving Justice, and From Barriers to Bridges, help religious communities identify and remove barriers to a full life of faith for people with disabilities. Over 50,000 copies of That All May Worship, now in its sixth edition, have been distributed.

Moreover, the Religion and Disability Program sponsors "That All May Worship" conferences throughout the U.S. These community-based conferences bring together people with disabilities and religious leadership to plan improved access —both physical and spiritual —in houses of worship. In 2000, there were twenty-one "That All May Worship" conferences, bringing the total number of conferences held in communities across America from 1993-2000 to one hundred and sixteen.

During the year 2000, the Accessible Congregations Campaign continued its efforts to enroll congregations that make the commitment to removing barriers and to welcoming people with disabilities into a full life of faith. The theme of the campaign is "Access: It Begins in the Heart." Committed congregations are listed on the N.O.D. website at http://www.nod.org.

In 2001, the Religion and Disability Program will continue facilitating "That All May Worship" conferences across America, and enrolling congregations in the Accessible Congregations Campaign.

Closing The Gap: Throughout the World

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International Commitment

The World Committee on Disability promotes the commitment of all nations to the United Nations World Programme of Action Concerning Disabled Persons. The World Programme calls for full and equal participation of persons with disabilities in all aspects of life in their respective countries regardless of the level of development. Established in 1985, the World Committee is the international arm of N.O.D. and urges the leaders of the U.N., its member nations and international organizations to make the full participation of people with disabilities —of which there are over a half billion worldwide —an ongoing priority. The Committee is comprised of people with and without disabilities from all continents.

FDR International Disability Award

On May 12, 2000 the World Committee, in partnership with the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute, presented the Franklin D. Roosevelt International Disability Award at the U. N. to President Árpád Göncz of the Republic of Hungary. The annual Award, which was established in 1995, goes to a nation making noteworthy national progress toward fulfillment of the U.N. World Programme of Action. The Award consists of a statue of FDR and a $50,000 cash prize from the Roosevelt Institute for a non-governmental disability organization in the winning nation.

Applications for the Award are received from all regions of the world. The World Committee coordinates the review of the applications by international disability experts and provides recommendations to the Board of Trustees of the Roosevelt Institute for final decision.

Through the Award, the World Committee will continue to encourage governments throughout the world to include progress on disability issues as a national priority.

Investors in N.O.D.'s work

The National Organization on Disability gratefully acknowledges the generosity of the following corporations, foundations and individuals who contributed to our work in 2000. Through their support they are helping to expand the participation of people with disabilities in all aspects of American life.

General Donors to N.O.D.

Century Club
$100,000 and above
Aetna, Inc.
BusinessWeek
The Blum-Kovler Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Gordon Gund
Mr. Peter B. Kovler
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc.
Lucy Rockefeller Waletzky, M.D.
Patrons
$50,000 to $99,999
The Charles Engelhard Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Richard DeVos
Roger S. Firestone Foundation
Mr. Bruce Gelb
Hewlett-Packard Company
The J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
The Scaife Family Foundation
The UPS Foundation
Benefactors
$25,000 to $49,999
American Express Company
Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation
Compaq Computer Corporation
Mr. Kersen de Jong
The Deland Family (Mrs. Susan Reeves Deland and Mr. & Mrs. Michael Deland)
Mr. Stephen Feinberg & Ms. Susan Foote
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation
The JM Foundation
Philip Morris Companies
The Netherlands American Community Trust
Mr. Jeffrey P. Reich
Mr. & Mrs. Roger Sant
UnumProvident Corporation
Mr. Frederick Whittemore
Sponsors
$10,000 to $24,999
Alcoa, Inc.
AARP
The Annie E. Casey Foundation, Inc.
The Beane Family Foundation
Bristol-Meyers Squibb
CIGNA Group Insurance
Citigroup, Inc.
DaimlerChrysler Corporation
Eastman Kodak Company
ExxonMobil Corporation
Gannett Broadcasting
The Grable Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Stephen Hammerman
Mrs. Marian S. Heiskell
H.J. Heinz Company
Household International, Inc.
Johnson & Johnson
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Microsoft Corporation
Ms. Evelyn Steffansson Nef
Pfizer, Inc.
Potomac Electric Power Company
Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, PC
Mr. E. John Rosenwald, Jr.
The Shefa Fund
Ms. Josephine M. Thompson
Verizon Communications
Mr. John Whitehead
Mr. & Mrs. William Wraith, IV
Partners
$5,000 to $9,999
Advocate Health Care
Air Transport Association of America
Bank of America Corporation
The Bell Atlantic Foundation
CNA
Champion Enterprises, Inc.
Glaxo-Wellcome Inc.
Hartford Life, Inc.
Kellogg Company
Kemper Insurance Companies
Je H. Kim, Ph.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Kraft
Marriott International, Inc.
Mr. Robert C. Pew, II
Rockwell
Vivendi Universal
R.P. Simmons Family Foundation
Mr. Bud Smith
Steelcase, Inc.
T. Rowe Price Associates Foundation
ULLICO, Inc.
Wal-Mart Stores
Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Wm. Wrigley, Jr. Company
Wynd Communications
Xerox Corporation
Associates
$1,000 to $4,999
Alex Lee, Inc.
Allegheny Technologies Charitable Trust
American Airlines
Amgen, Inc.
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.
Bayer Foundation
Mr. & Mrs. Philip Beekman
Mr. & Mrs. John J. Boyle, Jr.
Bridgestone/Firestone, Inc.
Cherry Engineering Support Services, Inc.
Chevron Corporation
The CIT Group Foundation
Comcast Corporation
Cubic Corporation
Mr. & Mrs. Justin Dart
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Deluxe Corporation
The Max and Victoria Dreyfus Foundation
The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation
Duquesne Light
Ms. Brooke Ellison
Epstein, Becker & Green, PC
Ernst & Young
Ford Motor Company Fund
Mr. Theodore F. Frankenbach
The Frick Fund of The Buhl Foundation
Genentech, Inc.
General Electric Company
The Gillette Company
The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company
Graybar Foundation
Hasbro, Inc.
Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield
Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White
Huntsman Corporation
Illinois Tool Works, Inc.
Ingersoll-Rand
Ingrid Rockefeller Kirkland
John Hancock Financial Services
Mr. & Mrs. Martin Keane
Keebler Foods Company
KeySpan Corporation
Kmart Corporation
Mr. Edward R. Leahy
Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc.
May Department Stores Company
Mr. Harold McGraw III
Mine Safety Appliances Company
Ambassador and Mrs. Alfred Moses
Motorola, Inc.
Olin Corporation
Painters & Allied Trades
Panasonic/Matsushita Electric Corporation of America
Ms. Carolyn Y. Perkins
Pitney Bowes, Inc.
PPG Industries, Inc.
The Prudential Insurance Co., Inc.
Mr. & Mrs. Charles Queenan
Raytheon Company
The Riggs National Bank of Washington
Richard Salem, Esq.
Schering-Plough Corporation
Sears, Roebuck and Co.
Slade Gorton & Co. Ltd.
Sprint
State Farm Insurance Company
Mr. W. Reid Thompson
Towers Perrin
UST, Inc.
Worthington Industries, Inc.
W. R. Grace & Co.
Friends
$100 to $999
Mr. Charlton H. Ames
Mr. & Mrs. Philip H. Anns
Mr. C.W. Ballis, III
Dr. & Mrs. Henry Betts
Mr. Robert Binswanger
Richard Bishop, Esq.
Mr. & Mrs. Kisuk Cheung
Mr. Ferdinand Colloredo-Mansfeld
Mr. & Mrs. Bureigh Cruikshank
Mr. Peter Dean
Mr. John D. Firestone
First Presbyterian (Atlanta, GA)
Friendship Foundation, Inc. (Lancaster, PA)
Mr. & Mrs. George H. Gallup, Jr.
Mr. Jay S. Goodfarb
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick P. Hitz
I. King Jordan, Ph.D.
Mr. & Mrs. Peter H. Jost
The Lancaster County Council of Churches
Mr. Raymond Lavietes
Mr. & Mrs. Duk Ja Lee
Mr. Edward Mazza
Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Mitchell
Mr. Daniel Murphy
New Jersey Polio Network
Old First Reformed Church (Philadelphia, PA)
The Presbyterian Church (Sewickley, PA)
Ms. Warrie Price
Mr. & Mrs. Alan A. Reich
Mr. & Mrs. Kenneth Roman
Christopher D. Roosevelt, Esq.
Mr. & Mrs. Alan A. Rubin
Mr. & Mrs. Robert Semans
Mr. & Mrs. Theodore Sedgwick
Bennett Stein, MD
Mr. & Mrs. Humphrey Taylor
Mr. Alexander C. Tomlinson
Rev. & Mrs. John Twiname
Mr. Neil Wallace

Special Giving Opportunities

N.O.D. welcomes planned giving. These are special donations where the gift of assets may provide the donor with particular advantages. Planned gifts should always be made with the advice of your attorney or financial advisor. If you are interested in giving to N.O.D. through a bequest, charitable lead trust, charitable remainder trust, or in donating life insurance, please contact the President of N.O.D. at 202-293-5960 or TDD 202-293-5968.

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