RespectAbility Advances Job Opportunities for People with Disabilities
RespectAbility is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that understands we are a stronger community when we live up to our values – when we are welcoming, diverse, moral and respect one another.
As a community, we owe so much to the advocates that work tirelessly to protect and advance the rights of people with disabilities. It’s never an easy fight and can be even more challenging in the political climate that we’re experiencing today. So, when we come across an organization like RespectAbility that is dedicated to uplifting our community and making positive change – we’re compelled to share it with the Cure Nation!
RespectAbility was formed in 2013 with the goal of taking away “the pity lens away from disability” and supporting the community in achieving more gainful employment. Their mission is to reshape the attitudes of American society so that people with disabilities can more fully participate in and contribute to society and to empower people with disabilities to achieve as much of the American Dream as their abilities and efforts permit.
RespectAbility works to educate, sensitize and engage Americans to focus on what people with disabilities can do, rather than on what they cannot do.
Advancing Employment for PWDs
In four short years, the organization has worked with “over 46 America’s governors to talk about how they could realign state programs to enable employment opportunities for the disabled.”
In collaboration with RespectAbility, Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin and Gov. Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania have helped create thousands of new jobs for people with disabilities in their states.
RespectAbility representatives pose with Senator Tammy Duckworth in January.
At RespectAbility, they don’t consider themselves lobbyists – they’re educators. And an important point when educating employers is to help them understand that they will make more money and achieve better outcomes by hiring people with disabilities, as they are often dedicated, creative and bring a unique perspective.
“Our free tools and factual resources inform so people with disabilities can achieve the education, training, jobs, security and good health that everyone needs and deserves.”
Looking Toward the Future: Disability in Media
For a demographic that represents about 20% of the population of our nation, the disability community is majorly under-represented in film and media. In fact, only 2% of actors on TV portray characters with disabilities – and too often actors with disabilities are not used to play those roles.
RespectAbility staff pose with members of the Born This Way cast.
RespectAbility was clear in a recent interview with HME News, “Fairness toward the disabled community shouldn’t be considered simply an act of charity. Right now, viewers almost never see people with disabilities on TV.”
On their website, they explain, “Entertainment contributes to the values and ideals that define us. What we see, we feel. And what we feel impacts how we act. RespectAbility is reaching out to Hollywood to stand up against ableism and other prejudice – while promoting positive, accurate, diverse and inclusive media portrayals on TV and in film.”
Investing in the Leaders of the Future: Fellowship Opportunities with RespectAbility
RespectAbility is going even further to invest in the future for people with disabilities. Their National Leadership Program is for young leaders who are committed to disability issues and plan to go into careers in public policy, advocacy, communications, fundraising, nonprofit management or faith-based inclusion. The program enables participants to gain skills and contacts while making a positive difference for people with disabilities.
A group shot of the 2017 Fellows for RespectAbility’s National Leadership Program, held three times per year
There are three cohorts per year and RespectAbility is currently taking applications for their Fall 2017 Fellowship, which allows for flexible dates between August 14 and December 29, 2017, for a minimum of nine weeks. They offer opportunities for both paid and unpaid Fellowships.
Are you a college or graduate student or recent graduate? Do you have a disability (or are passionate about helping the community) and aspire to have a career in media, public policy or advocacy?
Find out about applying for a Fellowship with RespectAbility here.
Excellent communication and organizational skills are strongly preferred, and Fellows should exhibit leadership skills to complete their own projects.
Strong preference for college juniors and above.
Commit for a minimum of nine weeks.
Hours are 9-5. Summer Fellows are required to work a minimum of 35 hours per week and Spring/Fall Fellows should be able to work at least 20 hours a week, though 40 hours per week is preferred.
There is no tuition cost to do the Fellowship, and unpaid Fellows will be awarded $250 a month as a transportation reimbursement.
The Fellowship takes place in Rockville, Maryland. The office is a short distance from the White Flint Metro Station on the Red Line.
Your cover letter must explain why this Fellowship in particular is of interest to you and why you believe you have the skills, focus and independent drive to make a positive difference in your time with us at RespectAbility.
Fill out their linked Google Doc Form and send your resume and cover letter to Christopher Trujillo at christophert@respectability.org to apply for any of our National Leadership Program opportunities! If you are applying for a paid Fellowship, explain in your cover letter how you can advance diversity and intersectionality issues.
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Introduction
Cure Medical, LLC (“our” “us”, and “we”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
This Privacy Policy describes the types of information we may collect from you, the user, (“you” and “your”) or that you may provide when you visit the website www.curemedical.com and any affiliated third party that may contain a link to this Privacy Policy, including, without limitation, any pages, facilities, services, or capabilities accessible on or by any top-level domain owned by us or any sub-site, subdomain, subdirectory, virtual site, or virtual directory thereof (collectively, the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect:
on or through the Website.
in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and any Website or us.
when you interact with our advertising and applications on third party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Privacy Policy. It does not apply to information collected by:
us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries).
any third party(including our partners), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Website
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, including our use and disclosure of your Personal Information, please do not use our Website and do not provide us with any of your information.By accessing or using the Website, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to our privacy practices described in this Privacy Policy, including our use and disclosure of your Personal Information as described below.This Privacy Policy may change from time to time.Your continued use of the Website after we make changes is deemed and treated as your acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
Please note that we are located in the United States and any information you provide to us may be stored in the United States.If you are visiting a Website from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring information about you, including Personal Information, to a country and jurisdiction that does not have the same data protection laws as the European Union, and you consent to the transfer of information about you, including your Personal Information, to the U.S.; and the use and disclosure of information about you, including your Personal Information, as described in this Privacy Policy. The Website is not directed for use by EU residents, we do not sell products or services to individuals located in the European Union, and we do not intentionally collect Personal Information from EU residents.If we find that we have collected Personal Information from EU residents, we regularly delete such information.
2. Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will include a pop up on our homepage when you visit our Website. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of this webpage as the “Last Modified” date. When you use any Website after any revisions or modifications to this Privacy Policy, you agree to and accept the revisions and modifications. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
3. Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us:
Cure Medical, LLC
Attn: Marketing
3471 VIA LIDO, SUITE 211 NEWPORT BEACH, CA 92663
or call us at our toll-free number: 800.570.1778
4. Children Under the Age of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to any Website. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 18 and do not direct our Website for use by individuals under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features/register, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.If you believe we might have any information using cookies from or about a child under 18, please contact us at marketing@curemedical.com and we will promptly remove the information.
5. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
by which you may be personally identified, such as your first and last name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, IP address, or employment history (when you apply to work for us)(“Personal Information”);
that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your history of requesting products or services from us; and/or
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and your usage of the Website. We collect this information:
directly from you when you provide it to us;
automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies; and from third parties, for example, our business partners.
5.1. Information You Provide to Us. The information we collect, including Personal Information, on or through our Website may include:
Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website or subscribing, requesting, or using services or products we offer. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website or ask us a question.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Your employment history when you decide to apply for a job with us.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders.
Your search queries on the Website.
While it is your choice whether to provide the requested information or not, we cannot provide certain services you may request if you do not provide the requested information.
5.2. Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies and Do-Not-Track Signals. As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Usage Details. Details of your visits to our Website, including
traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Device Information. We may collect information about your computer or mobile device and internet connection, including the device’s unique device identifier, IP address, operating system, browser type, and mobile network information.
Stored Information and Files. The Website also may access metadata associated with your device.
Location Information. The Website does not collect real-time information about the location of your device, but when you submit forms to us, our systems automatically collect the country, state/province, and city location data associated with your IP address. If you do not want us to collect this information, please do not submit any forms to us.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking).
Do-Not-Track is a public-private initiative, http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/, that has developed a technical “flag” or signal that an end-user may be able to activate within their browser software to notify websites that they do not wish to be “tracked” by third parties as defined by the initiative. The initiative, however, has not reached a consensus as to exactly what technical or other actions those parties receiving the signal should take. As a result, Do-Not-Track has not yet been standardized and most websites, including our Website, and we do not alter our or Website’s behavior or change their services when their websites receive a “do-not-track” flag or signal.
The information we collect automatically may include Personal Information (such as your IP address or information collected from our use of “cookies”) and we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser.However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity)
6. Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Section 9(Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information).
7. How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:
To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us, for example when you download content, request content, or sign up for a webinar or other event.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your, including products, services, or information you have requested.
To carry out our obligations, including contractual obligations, and to enforce our Terms of Use.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
As set forth in a separate agreement between you and us.
To improve the Website by solving technical problems, to calculate overall usage statistics, for internal marketing and promotional purposes, and for service development and content improvement.
To maintain the security and integrity of the Website and our IT systems.
For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own goods services that may be of interest to you. If you wish to stop receiving certain emails, please click the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of the email or notify us by email at marketing@curemedical.com. For more information, see Section 9 (Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information).
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our target audiences. If you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, we may assume that you meet its target criteria.
We will retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected and to comply with applicable laws, and your consent to such purposes(s) remains valid during such time. When Personal Information is no longer needed or legally required, it will be permanently deleted or de-identified so that it can no longer be associated with a specific individual. We annually review our data and delete data that is no longer necessary.
8. Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated, non-personally identifiable information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
To our company.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
As set forth in any separate agreement between you and us.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Information:To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government, law enforcement, or regulatory request.To enforce or apply our terms of use, other agreements, and any other documents included or referenced therein (all of which are incorporated into and made a part of this Privacy Policy by this reference).
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us,our customers, other users, service providers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.
9. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from us. If you do not wish to have your email address used by us to promote our own products or services, you can opt-out at any other time by unsubscribing from communication emails or sending us an email stating your request to marketing@curemedical.com. This opt out does not apply to information provided to us as a result of a product registration, product service experience, or other transactions.
Targeted Advertising. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website, available here: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/.We also use cookies provided by Google Analytics to help us measure how visitors use the Website. The information collected is used for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to, site traffic reporting, unique visitor counts, and content optimization. Although Google Analytics logs the information coming from the Website on our behalf, we control how the data may and may not be used. You can opt-out of this website analysis tool by clicking: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.We use Google to provide re-marketing services to you, i.e. when you visit other third party websites, you may see advertisements about us. Google uses cookies through our Website to remember that you have visited our Website and provide our advertisements to you on those third party websites. You can opt out of Google’s features by visiting https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated to customize how you receive ads from Google across different websites.
10. Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your Personal Information clicking “update preferences” at the bottom of the emails we send you.
You may also send us an email at lwells@curemedical.com to request access to, correct or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
11. Your California Privacy Rights
This section is required under California law. California residents are entitled to information about our practices regarding the sale of Personal Information. We do not sell your Personal Information. If at any time we begin selling Personal Information, we will update this Privacy Policy.
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
California residents may also request, after we have verified your identity, (i) the Personally Identifiable Information we have collected about you, (ii) the categories of Personally Identifiable Information we have collected from you and that we share for our business purposes, (iii) the third parties with who we share your Personally Identifiable Information, (iv) our commercial purpose for collecting the Personally Identifiable Information, and (v) the categories of sources from which we collected your Personally Identifiable Information. California residents may request, free of any charge (unless we are allowed by law to charge a fee), the Personally Identifiable Information we have collected from you through your account with us or, if you do not have an account with us, electronically or by mail at your option. Please note that California law prohibits us from discriminating against you if you exercise your rights under this Section.
You may also request that we and our service providers delete your Personally Identifiable Information, provided that we are not required by California law to delete your Personally Identifiable Information under certain situations, such as: (a) your Personally Identifiable Information is necessary for us to provide you with goods or services you have requested or we reasonably anticipate you to request (for example, an on-going monthly subscription you have not cancelled) or as necessary to perform a contract between you and us, (b) your Personally Identifiable Information is necessary for us to protect against malicious or illegal activity, (c) your Personally Identifiable Information is necessary for us to identify and repair errors with our existing functionalities, (d) we use your Personally Identifiable information solely for internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us, (e) your Personally Identifiable Information is necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation, or (f) we otherwise use your Personally Identifiable Information lawfully and in a manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided your Personally Identifiable Information.
To make a request the information we have described in this Section or make any other requests under this Section, please see Section 3 (Contact Information).
12. Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. If we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and can potentially be intercepted or incorrectly routed. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on any Website. Please consider this before submitting any information to us or through the Website.
13. Social Media
Any information, communications, or material of any type or nature that you submit to us through a third party website including, but not limited to, any of our Website or accounts contained on a social media platform such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter, whether by e-mail, posting, messaging, uploading, downloading, or otherwise (collectively, a “Submission”), is done at your own risk and without any expectation of privacy. By visiting any Website that is contained on a social media platform and/or website, you are representing and warranting to us that you have reviewed the applicable social media platform’s or website’s privacy policy and terms of use and that you will abide by all such provisions contained therein. We cannot control the actions of the providers or the other users of any social media platform or website and we are therefore not responsible for any content or Submissions contained on such websites or platforms.We do not guarantee the privacy and safety of these areas.We encourage you to be wary of providing any of your personal information in such public forums. The information you submit can be collected and used by people you do not know. Again, your use of these features and your Submissions are fully at your own risk.
14. Monitoring and Enforcement
We have implemented various measures to monitor compliance with and enforce the elements in this Privacy Policy;however, we expressly disclaim the obligation to monitor such compliance.If you have a privacy related inquiry, complaint or dispute, please contact us at the postal address, telephone number, or e-mail listed in Section 3 (Contact Information).
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is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that understands we are a stronger community when we live up to our values – when we are welcoming, diverse, moral and respect one another.
RespectAbility was formed in 2013 with the goal of taking away “the pity lens away from disability” and supporting the community in achieving more gainful employment. Their mission is to reshape the attitudes of American society so that people with disabilities can more fully participate in and contribute to society and to empower people with disabilities to achieve as much of the American Dream as their abilities and efforts permit.
Advancing Employment for PWDs
CURE NATION is designed with you in mind, to offer assistance and education when you need it through a personal support program.