🚀 Join our team as our Executive Director! 📣 Disability Rights Fund and the Disability Rights Advocacy Fund are seeking a strategic, collaborative and creative Executive Director to lead the next chapter of our growth and maturation with the impending launch of our new strategic plan. The Executive Director will continue to advance and strengthen the organizations’ financial sustainability and growth as well as lead the execution of the new strategy that centers disability rights movements, expanding the impact and influence of DRF/DRAF at global, regional, and national levels. They will also oversee organizational structures and systems, cultivating an environment in which the organizations and their personnel, including staff and governance members with disabilities, can grow and thrive – an environment that models the inclusion and leadership of persons with disabilities. The ED will lead a participatory and collaborative approach to governance, management, and grantmaking, centering accessibility within this approach. 📌 Apply here: https://bit.ly/4eSwtmy ⏰ Priority application deadline: September 1, 2024 Image ID: A white and purple graphic with images of a megaphone and disability rights activists marching with text: We are hiring! Executive Director.
Disability Rights Fund
Philanthropic Fundraising Services
Boston, Massachusetts 14,755 followers
Our funding is changing the landscape for persons with disabilities worldwide
Über uns
The Disability Rights Fund envisions a world where persons with disabilities participate fully in society and enjoy equal rights and opportunities. DRF supports disabled persons organizations (DPOs) around the world to build diverse movements, ensure inclusive development agendas, and achieve equal rights and opportunity for all. Our primary strategies include grantmaking, technical assistance, and advocacy. Our approach and philosophy are grounded in respect for these principles: • Learning and Change: Embracing an open approach to the work we are doing to advance rights of persons with disabilities. This requires learning from our actions, responding to needs as well as successes, and changing course when appropriate; • Partnerships: Encouraging the pursuit of a variety of partnerships as part of a strategy to increase capacity and advance rights; • Accountability: Committing to take responsibility for one’s actions, especially when in a position of power; • A Culture of Rights: Promoting rights-based policies and programs; • Sustainability: Recognizing the need for community-led processes that can be sustained long-term in an environmentally friendly manner.
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http://www.disabilityrightsfund.org
External link for Disability Rights Fund
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- Philanthropic Fundraising Services
- Größe des Unternehmens
- 11-50 Mitarbeiter
- Hauptsitz
- Boston, Massachusetts
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- Nonprofit
- Gegründet
- 2008
- Spezialitäten
- disability rights, human rights, rights advocacy, UNCRPD, access to justice, education, women's rights, gender equality, indigenous rights, climate change, grantmaking, Participatory grantmaking, international development, international philanthropy, and poverty
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89 South Street
Suite 203
Boston, Massachusetts 02111, US
Employees at Disability Rights Fund
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Pedro Ponce
14 years experience in complex international and local portfolio development, research and evaluation, inclusion advocacy, and fundraising
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Rebecca Rittgers
Supporting Philanthropy and Social Change - Consultant, Coach, and Advocate
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Melanie Harper
Director Of Finance at the Disability Rights Fund/Disability Rights Advocacy Fund
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Maria Ni Fhlatharta
Disability Law and Policy
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🚨 DRF is soliciting proposals for a consultancy to develop an investment policy that ensures the long-term financial stability of our organization, aligning with our purpose and values. The policy should be robust, adaptable, and able to guide DRF in making informed investment decisions that are consistent with its goals. ⏰ Deadline: August 23, 2024 🔗 Learn more about the ToR here: https://bit.ly/4dvywvt
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✊🏽Dream, Diversify, Unite 🔥This video is on fire! As is the disability rights movement in Indonesia. ✨This energizing video features youth and intersectional feminist voices who gathered at DRF's grantee convening in Jakarta, which was co-hosted by Indonesian Association of Women with Disabilities (HWDI). We have much to celebrate as Indonesia’s disability movement diversifies and advocates for inclusive climate and gender justice, dignified livelihoods, inclusive education, independent living for persons with psychosocial disabilities and more. 🚀As DRF’s Dwi Ariyani says, “united and diversified, we are UNSTOPPABLE!” 📣We would love our community to amplify this video far and wide. Video producer: Rucha Chitnis Cinematography and editing: Damar Studio
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🚨 DRF is hiring a Senior Administrative Associate, whose role will be to ensure smooth operations of our internal communications, virtual office management and administrative functions. They will provide high level administrative support to the executive director, board and leadership team, including coordinating schedules, meetings and agendas while managing priorities and drafting communications. 📍 Apply here: https://bit.ly/3WIFebR
Senior Administrative Associate - Disability Rights Fund
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💡 Calling all researchers and writers! DRF, Impatience Earth and Impatience Wellbeing are developing a funders guide on disability rights and climate justice. We are hiring a consultant to take the research and writing lead for this important guide, which will support our goals to increase funding for inclusive climate action with a disability rights lens.
Calling all researchers and writers! Could you help us to write a funders guide on disability rights and climate justice? Impatience Earth, Disability Rights Fund and Impatience Wellbeing are in search of a consultant who can lead on researching and writing this important guide, that will support our goal to increase the amount of funding towards climate action with a disability rights lens. You’ll be someone who has a passion for and good understanding of climate justice or disability justice (ideally both!), who has a track record of gathering and synthesizing primary and secondary information, and writing it up in a concise and easy-to-understand way for a diverse audience. If this sounds like you, we’d love to receive your application (details in the RFP) by 11th August. Accessible version of the RFP is downloadable here: https://lnkd.in/eGpZ3-sn
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🔥 From Java to West Papua, Indonesia’s disability rights movement is diversifying and uniting to leave no one behind. ✨ Learn how emerging youth leaders and intersectional feminists are challenging the status quo and reclaiming their narratives to #ShiftThePower. Read more in our blog celebrating the milestones of Indonesia’s disability rights movement. https://lnkd.in/gBkeHjP8
Unite to Thrive: Milestones of Indonesia's Disability Rights Movement – Disability Rights Fund
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💥 Disability rights movements: Make your voices count! 💡 New calls for inputs: - Children's rights to access justice and effective remedies; due by August 23 - Universal birth registration; due by August 5 - Gendered dimensions of the care and support systems; due by July 31 More ⏩ http://bit.ly/3YGTqBa Image ID: A yellow graphic with an illustration of a woman using a wheelchair; she's holding a megaphone. Text: Make Your Voices Count!
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🚨 We are hiring for several consultancies. Apply and pass the word around! 📌 Temporary support for Rwanda program 📌 Project manager for Global Disability Summit project 📌 Temporary assignment of program officer Learn more here 🔽 https://lnkd.in/gdw5dbYZ
We're Hiring – Disability Rights Fund
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🎉 We are glad to welcome Lorraine Wapling, DRF's Interim Executive Director, to the team! Read her message below. ✨ "I am honored to send this message to you as the Interim Executive Director of the Disability Rights Fund (DRF). I step into this role with immense respect for the transformative leadership of our former Executive Director, Catalina Devandas, whose vision and dedication has been instrumental in propelling DRF forward. Catalina’s leadership catalyzed the creation of our bold and visionary 5-year strategic plan and set in place the development of robust internal systems. This plan reflects our unwavering commitment to participation and partnering with diverse movements for disability rights and other strategic allies to make inclusion a reality. I am eager to help us put this plan into action! We now have a strong foundation for a dynamic future. The DRF team is energized and ready to embrace this exciting journey." Read more here: https://lnkd.in/gASyC2QQ Image ID: A purple and orange graphic with text: Welcome to the team! The graphic has a photo of a smiling woman.
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🎉 Today we are celebrating 10 years of International Albinism Awareness Day! 💫 And we are cheering on youth activists with albinism, like Hilda Macheso in Malawi, who are advocating for the rights of women and girls with albinism. 🎙 "Shifting power to women and girls with albinism requires building a powerful structure from the ground-up. We need an inclusive space to manifest ourselves so that we can thrive." hashtag#NothingWithoutUs! hashtag#IAAD2024 Image ID: A purple poster with text: Shifting power to women and girls with albinism requires building a powerful structure from the ground-up. We need an inclusive space to manifest ourselves so that we can thrive. The graphic has a photo of a smiling woman with red hair wearing a printed green dress.
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