Executive Summary

We are an organization of people with disabilities leading the charge to: *Equip* people with disabilities with tools to foster pride and to direct their own lives; *Educate* the community to challenge stereotypes and eliminate barriers; and *Advocate* for access, equity, and inclusion at the individual, local, state, and national level.

Able SC is making transformational changes in systems, communities, and individuals. Since 1994, we’ve remained a consumer-controlled, community-based, cross-disability nonprofit that seeks to make South Carolina a national model of equity and inclusion for all people with disabilities. We are the state’s oldest and largest federally recognized disability-led organization. Nearly 90 percent of our staff are people with disabilities and over half of our Board of Directors. We practice equity, disability justice and representation, and true inclusion through consumer-driven independence and disability pride.

We didn’t just learn the barriers existing in disability life. As people with disabilities, our work doesn’t end when we leave the office. Disability is part of who we are. We live this every day.

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