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Creative industries NEW YORK, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Creative Spirit, the first 501(c)(3) non-profit organization devoted to providing fair-wage jobs and highly-effective coaching for individuals with disabilities, particularly those who are neurodivergent and profoundly unemployed, will host its annual fundraising gala at the iconic New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday, April 10, 2024.
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- The 2024 Gala will be chaired by Laurel Rossi, CRO, Infillion and Chairwoman, Creative Spirit and CRO at Infillion and Trustee Mack McKelvey, CEO, SalientMG.
- Creative Spirit; and aims to highlight the critical issue of unemployment and sub-minimum wage employment among adults with disabilities, an alarming trend that affects 85% of this demographic.
- Creative Spirit is on a mission to expand its impact on companies and people with disabilities globally who are still profoundly unemployed.
- For more information about the gala, press interest and donation opportunities, please visit the Creative Spirit Gala Website .
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VOYA A VIP event and celebratory after-party will be held at the Music Hall of Williamsburg beginning at 6:00 p.m. Tickets to the Creative Spirit Birthday Bash and sponsorships are available on the Creative Spirit website .
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- A VIP event and celebratory after-party will be held at the Music Hall of Williamsburg beginning at 6:00 p.m. Tickets to the Creative Spirit Birthday Bash and sponsorships are available on the Creative Spirit website .
- 85% of those with disabilities are unemployed and most, who do work, work for pennies on the dollar.
- Weve learned so much about inclusion and how to nurture talent from Creative Spirit over the years.
- Creative Spirit offers corporate training and consulting to organizations interested in adding disability to their DE&I agenda.
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Creative industries The newly expanded board reflects even deeper experience, gender, ability, age, and ethnic diversity.
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- The newly expanded board reflects even deeper experience, gender, ability, age, and ethnic diversity.
- Our Creative Spirit trustees are at the top of their games and understand Creative Spirits unique mission and bias toward action, said Laurel Rossi, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Creative Spirit.
- Creative Spirit offers corporate training and consulting to organizations interested in adding disability to their DE&I agenda.
- Creative Spirit is supported by corporate donations, grants and its Founding Partner The ADVERTISING Club of New York.
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Articles The evening's sponsors include The A-List, Adweek, ExecOnline, Hill Holliday, MediaLink, MRM, Ogury, OMD, Rapp, SalientMG, and VaynerMedia.
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- The evening's sponsors include The A-List, Adweek, ExecOnline, Hill Holliday, MediaLink, MRM, Ogury, OMD, Rapp, SalientMG, and VaynerMedia.
- Organizations sponsoring the event and Creative Spirit partner companies are helping the world embrace neurodiversity in the workplace.\n\xe2\x80\x9cCreative Spirit is on a mission to deliver dramatic change around how people with disabilities are represented, hired and retained.
- Our mission is simple: to create and support the successful placement of individuals with IDDs at the most creative, forward-thinking companies in the world.
- This is a global crisis, and likely the most profound human dignity and economic discrimination issue of our time, yet it goes unsolved.\n"
Harrell, Lavallee and Tuman have devoted themselves to economic justice for those with disabilities and special needs via their Voya Cares\xc2\xae program.
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- Harrell, Lavallee and Tuman have devoted themselves to economic justice for those with disabilities and special needs via their Voya Cares\xc2\xae program.
- \xe2\x80\x9cWe are honored to be recognized by Creative Spirit for our work to advance disability inclusion.
- Our mission is simple: to create and support the successful placement of individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDDs) at the most creative, forward-thinking companies in the world.
- Creative Spirit offers corporate training and consulting to organizations interested in adding disability to their DE&I agenda.
Creative Spirit engaged 250 corporate decision-makers responsible for hiring to determine the attitudes, behaviors and barriers to hiring those with IDDs into fair-wage integrated positions.
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- Creative Spirit engaged 250 corporate decision-makers responsible for hiring to determine the attitudes, behaviors and barriers to hiring those with IDDs into fair-wage integrated positions.
- The premise of the research is to capture baseline hiring practices data, hiring data specifically related to IDDs, and a reaction to the Creative Spirit model.
- Creative Spirit is a non-profit 501c3 organization devoted to creating integrated employment opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities.
- Currently, 15% of those with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDDs) who work are subject to significant pay gaps or go unpaid altogether.
Laurel Rossi, co-founder and board chair of Creative Spirit, and Brian McCourt, CEO and Founder of The Able Channel, made the announcement together.
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- Laurel Rossi, co-founder and board chair of Creative Spirit, and Brian McCourt, CEO and Founder of The Able Channel, made the announcement together.
- Were trying to democratize the information around IDD issues, so that both candidates and companies have access to Creative Spirits expertise.
- Creative Spirit is a non-profit 501c3 organization devoted to creating integrated employment opportunities for individuals with intellectual, developmental and learning disabilities.
- Creative Spirit is leading the global dialogue about the profound impact that diverse thinking can have on any organization.
NEW YORK, March 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (From Left to Right) Gina Grillo, President & CEO of the Ad Club NY, Laurel Rossi, Founding Executive Director of Creative Spirit US, Michael Kassan, Chairman & CEO of MediaLink, and Jamie Gutfreund, Board Member of Tubular Labs.
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NEW YORK, March 05, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- (From Left to Right) Gina Grillo, President & CEO of the Ad Club NY, Laurel Rossi, Founding Executive Director of Creative Spirit US, Michael Kassan, Chairman & CEO of MediaLink, and Jamie Gutfreund, Board Member of Tubular Labs.
