Tag: Easterseals

Easterseals Launches Ambassador Program With 6 Inspiring Advocates for People with Disabilities

Stuart Mitchell

Six women who are influencers and advocates for disabled individuals from across the country united today in supporting Easterseals, an organization that for more than 100 years has been providing exceptional services, education, outreach and advocacy so people with disabilities can live, learn, work and thrive in their communities. A sounding board on meaningful issues and human stories of the disability movement, the Easterseals Ambassadors will play a prominent role in raising awareness of Easterseals’ programs for parents, caregivers, veterans and persons with disabilities. Each Easterseals Ambassador is an influencer…

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Filmmaker & Celebrated Actors With Disabilities Team With Easterseals on Urgent, Timely PSAs to Encourage Everyone to #StayHomeSaveLives During Coronavirus Crisis

Stuart Mitchell

Easterseals releases new, timely and critically important Public Service Announcements about safety during the COVID-19 pandemic, and encourages all of us to #StayHomeSaveLives. The leading disability services nonprofit joined with filmmaker John Lawson to produce the spots, recruiting a group of twenty celebrated actors within the disability community to record at-home messages about why we all need to stay at home.  The PSA series reinforces that we are all in this together, and asks us to self-isolate, stay at home, and do our part to stop the spread of this…

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Easterseals Disability Film Challenge Asks the Entertainment Industry to Help Change the Way We Define & View Disability

Stuart Mitchell

Apologies for this being last minute but hopefully this will of be value to some. Registration for the 2018 Easterseals Disability Film Challenge,  April 13-15, closes today, Wed., April 11.  For full rules and to sign up, visit  www.DisabilityFilmChallenge.com Registered filmmakers are given 55 hours to write and produce short films (three-to-five minutes) that Help Change the Way We View Disability. Submitted films are judged in four award categories – Best Film, Filmmaker, Actor and Awareness Campaign – by a noted and diverse group of entertainment industry talent.   Finalists…

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