Over 40% of homeless in U.S. have a disability

Posted by Beth Finke on July 21st, 2009

Every morning when I take my Seeing Eye dog out for her “constitutional” we pass the same homeless man sitting on a crate. “StreetWise!” he calls out. “Can you give a little help today?” StreetWise is a newspaper sold by homeless people in Chicago. The concept is that by selling StreetWise, people down on their luck might get back on …Read More » »

Change.org applauds our positive fundraising methods

Posted by Beth Finke on April 6th, 2009

A guy named Mike Ervin lives in our apartment building here in Chicago –- Mike was a poster child for the Muscular Dystrophy Association in the 1960s, and today he’s an activist who challenges the MDA’s representation of people with disabilities in its annual telethon. I’ve learned a lot from Mike, and I was particularly pleased to find Easter …Read More » »

Change in the autism blog world, too

Posted by Beth Finke on January 21st, 2009

With so many other things in the country changing these days, I guess it should be no surprise to hear of changes in the autism blog world, too.

Last November, Change.org advertised a part-time blogger position to manage its autism portal. Important note here: Change.org has no relation to the Obama-Biden transition team or the website Change.gov. In fact, …Read More » »