Read Our Impact Report

We’re so excited to share our 2023 Impact Report! Thanks to our supporters and champions, we have so many accomplishments to report on.

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[Visual description: Cover of our 2023 Community Impact Report, titled You made a great thing possible. The design features our blue, orange and green logo plus a group photo of staff and supporters at a rally on a city sidewalk. They are holding signs that read Nothing about us without us, Disability pride and Disability rights are human rights.]

Here’s a recap of some of the awesome things we did last year:

• We celebrated Disability Pride Month in July by asking community members to film short videos of themselves talking about what disability pride means to them.

• Our staff spent hundreds of hours out in the community meeting people and sharing information about Disability Empowerment Center through tabling events and information fairs.

• We launched a new program called EPIC that invites people with disabilities to come along on excursions around our city, like the aquarium and museums.

• We began a new partnership with the Summit Community Center to provide regular programming for young adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities.

• We started offering a new 10-week workshop called Healthy Community Living to help people with disabilities achieve their goals, solve problems, prepare for change and gain more confidence.

• Our Executive Director Kimberly Meck was named chair of the Washington State Independent Living Council.

• Our Redmond office moved into a new space in the Together Center joining dozens of other amazing nonprofit providers to work together to serve community members on the Eastside.

• We’ve now had our new name for more than a year and a half—and community awareness has increased significantly, helping us serve more people.