Organizations Filed Purposes:
Advocating Change Together's (ACT) mission is to advance "self advocacy" which, as its name suggests, engages people with developmental disabilities to be in charge of their own decisions and to speak for themselves. ACT describes self-advocacy as a three-legged stool. The first leg is the personal empowerment that someone grows into , where they can speak for themselves and go for what they want. The second leg is understanding disability not as a physical problem within the person, but as a discrimination problem within society. The third leg is the social change movement, where people with disabilities join together (organize) to get the power to change society.
To help people with disabilities see themselves as part of a larger disability rights movement.
Advocating Change Together (ACT) brings Minnesota groups together to work on projects that will improve the quality of lives of individuals with disabilities in the state of Minnesota. ACT helps and supports people with developmental and intellectual disabilities to be active participants in the larger disability and human rights movements. ACT coordinates and administers a statewide network to help people with developmental disabilities know their rights and demand those rights through personal and group action. ACT delivers programming to build self-advocacy and self determination skills for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities across the state. ACT facilitates meetings big and small to help people find their own power and ssert their right to sefl-determination. From a biennial conference for 500 MInnesotans with disabilities, to train the trainer sessions in each region of the state, to interactive art workshops, to intensive human rights retreats, ACT is building leadership and human rights change every day. ACT's highly successful Olmstead Academy is one of ACT's strongest offerings. A program to build leaders who will participate in court-ordered integration mandates. ACT also packages disability equality training materials designed for groups to build skills and knowledge necessary for personal growth and collective action.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Mary Kay Kennedy | Executive Director | 40 | $75,000 |
| Rachel Neidringhaus | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Cynthia Gayles | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Thomas Robinson | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Denise Cady | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Shante Martin | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Jenny Johnson | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Carrie O'Keefe | Board Treasurer | 1 | $0 |
| Lori Rohovit | Board Secretary | 1 | $0 |
| Kenisha Conditt | Board Vice President | 1 | $0 |
| Carol Robinson | Board President | 1 | $0 |
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