What Is Voting? Voting is how people make choices together. When you vote, you say what you want. We vote for people who want to lead our country, state, and city. These people are called candidates. When they win, they become elected officials. Elected officials make choices about our lives. They decide how programs work. […]
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July 16-20, 2018 is National Disability Voter Registration Week (NDVRW), organized by AAPD through the REV UP Campaign. The purpose of the week is to get people with disabilities and their families an...
This year, The Arc is excited to provide a limited number of Disability Advocate Scholarships to people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities to attend our National Convention in Novembe...
This month, The Arc joined an amicus brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in support of the plaintiffs in the case M.W. v. Army. The brief supported children with diabetes and the American Diab...
This past month, Marty Ford, our Senior Executive Officer of Public Policy, was awarded the first-ever AAIDD Public Policy Award. Our Director of Public Policy Nicole Jorwic shared a few words about t...
The National Conference of Executives (NCE) of The Arc is seeking talented, motivated leaders who wish to share their skills and knowledge with the greater NCE membership and play a role in shaping th...
Every year there are dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people that leave The Arc — retiring board members and executive directors, staff moving on to other jobs or leaving the workforce. Wouldn’t it be...
In fall of 2017, The Arc of Colorado welcomed Christiano Sosa as its new Executive Director. With a strong background in cause-driven work, Christiano has spent his first few months at the helm achiev...
Washington, DC – Today, the United States Senate passed its version of the “Farm Bill” (Manager’s Amendment to the House version of the 2018 Agriculture and Nutrition Act), a bill to reauthori...
Critical Consumer Protections Missing, Potentially Impacting Affordability of Other Plans
On June 19, the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced ...
