Meet David Fowler, gold medalist from the 2007 and 2008 National Veterans Wheelchair Games, Cheerios Box Champion, and serving as president of the Texas chapter of Paralyzed Veterans of America. David is also a PVA national director.
David Fowler will preside over the 30th Annual Convention alongside CTD President Ken Carden. Fowler was one of the twelve gold medalists from the 2007 National Veterans Wheelchair Games who adorned a special edition box of Cheerios to support military families and promote healthy living, distributed at Veterans’ Hospital canteens and other military stores earlier this spring. Fowler is pictured playing Power Soccer, one of the four competitions in which he won gold at last year’s National Veterans Wheelchair Games, the largest annual wheelchair sports competition in the world.
July kicked off a run of more than ten Help America Vote Act seminars being conducted by CTD. During the next few months, CTD will travel across our state to help Texans with disabilities understand their rights as voters.
The seminars include useful information about polling place accessibility, important dates in the upcoming general election, registration and voters’ rights. Hands-on demonstrations of voting machines are included at the seminar.
In 2002 the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) mandated guidelines to improve accessibility at polling places in the U.S. Advocacy Inc. is working with CTD to help spread the word about the process of voting and how easy it has become.
CTD recently held a booth at the San Antonio Independent Living Services ADA celebration with outstanding success; “People were able to get their hands on a voting machine; this gave them a chance to gain confidence and get past intimidation often associated with voting,” said CTD staff member Nathaniel Klugman.
Interested in a HAVA presentation in your community? Contact Nklugman@cotwd.org.
“Get into politics as if your life depends on it. It Does.” –Justin Dart
It’s been five years since CTD’s Team Everest twice made history: first, becoming the largest cross-disability team to reach Mt. Everest Base Camp at 17,500 ft., then again when Expedition Leader Gary Guller become the first person with one arm to summit Mt. Everest at over 29,000 ft. Now you can own the full-length documentary, which chronicles this expedition to the world's highest mountain for only $24.95, plus $5.00 shipping and handling. To purchase online, click here.
Forgotten Lives2007 Grand Prize Winner!Cinema Touching DisabilityStudent Film Competition |
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Now available to the public, this Community Now! production by filmmaker Joshua Tate documents the horrors and abuse perpetrated against Texas’ most vulnerable citizens inside state institutions (state schools) and offers hope for a future of freedom and dignity in the community.
Proceeds from the film will go directly to Community Now!, a statewide nonprofit 501c3 organization with a mission to actively work to free Texans with disabilities from institutions and ensure public dollars are shifted to fund those individuals languishing on waiting lists for community services. To purchase, click here.
If you search the internet or shop online, you could be donating to CTD with the click of your mouse! Here’s how.
GoodSearch.com is a new Yahoo-powered search engine that donates half its advertising revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. Use it just as you would any search engine, get quality search results from Yahoo, and watch the donations add up!
Just go to www.goodsearch.com and be sure to enter Coalition of Texans with Disabilities-CTD (Austin, TX) as the charity you want to support. Then make GoodSearch.com your default search engine. And, be sure to spread the word!
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