Disability Outreach Foundation is a 501-C3 nonprofit organization that promotes health and wellness among youth and adults with physical disabilities through positive reinforcement. This nonprofit is a service-oriented, community-based organization whose members are individuals with and without disabilities. This nonprofit was founded by University of Illinois alumnus Bryan Pratt in 2001.
They are in the process of putting together a benefit CD. Their benefactors include several dis...
Disability Outreach Foundation is a 501-C3 nonprofit organization that promotes health and wellness among youth and adults with physical disabilities through positive reinforcement. This nonprofit is a service-oriented, community-based organization whose members are individuals with and without disabilities. This nonprofit was founded by University of Illinois alumnus Bryan Pratt in 2001.
They are in the process of putting together a benefit CD. Their benefactors include several disability related organizations around Chicago and the nation. The organization is looking for singers/songwriters who can transform some less than-professional songs into professional, contemporary pieces. There is a budget of $100-300 per each song, and the foundation will retain rights to the song.
It is possible that the song will be used in a soundtrack for a movie at a later date. Four songs are hip-hop, nine are R&B/pop, and 7-8 are unfinished songs. They would like 2-3 songs to be a cappella. They currently own the rights to at least 13 original songs pertainable to this project.
The Disability Outreach Foundation held a Spirit Walk fundraiser in conjunction with Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, Illinois, in October 2004. They raised $19,000, which was put into use of purchasing seven sports wheelchairs for the Great Lakes Adaptive Sports Association in Lake Forest, Illinois.
Disability Outreach Foundation was formed to be a fundraising source for Illinois High School Association varsity wheelchair basketball. Illinois, according to a couple of University of Illinois doctorate students' thesis, was supposed to become the first state in the nation to have competitive wheelchair basketball as a varsity sport. However, there are only six teams, so the IHSA project has not yet reached its goal.