Disability-led nonprofits, legal advocates, peer-support networks, and service providers — find organisations that work for you.
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Arizona's largest Center for Independent Living, run by people with disabilities for people with disabilities, operating from a 62,000-square-foot universally designed campus in Phoenix. Ability360 delivers personal care, independent living skills, employment services, home modification, and adapted sports programming statewide.
Chicago's disability-led Center for Independent Living, providing peer support, housing advocacy, civil rights enforcement, and community-based services for disabled Chicagoans since 1980.
A disability-led Center for Independent Living founded in 1980 that empowers Chicagoans with disabilities through peer support, housing assistance, legal advocacy, and grassroots organizing. Majority of staff and board members are people with disabilities.
The National Centre for Autism that pioneered the autism movement in India and South Asia — providing special education, parent support, training programmes, and policy advocacy for autistic people and their families since 1991.
The continental membership body of Disabled Persons' Organisations across Africa, established in 2014, uniting and amplifying the voices of persons with disabilities at pan-African, regional, and international levels. ADF is governed by an elected Executive Council drawn from representative DPOs continent-wide.
The Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind is the world's most comprehensive education, rehabilitation, and service programme for people who are deaf, blind, deafblind, or multidisabled, operating continuously since 1858. Headquartered in Talladega and serving more than 31,000 individuals across all 67 Alabama counties, AIDB delivers cradle-to-career services through six campuses and ten regional centres.
Nation's largest cross-disability rights organisation, focused on increasing the political and economic power of people with disabilities through civic engagement and employment advocacy.
A regional intergovernmental centre established in Bangkok as the legacy of the Asian and Pacific Decade of Disabled Persons, jointly supported by the Royal Thai Government and JICA. Endorsed by UN ESCAP as the regional cooperative base for disability-inclusive development across the Asia-Pacific, promoting training, knowledge exchange, and technical cooperation.
APAE is Latin America's largest network serving people with intellectual, multiple, and autism-spectrum disabilities, with over 2,100 local chapters across Brazil since 1954. It provides health, education, and social assistance through a family-led model, collectively serving approximately 350,000 people.
The Australian Federation of Disability Organisations (AFDO) is a national Disabled Peoples Organisation (DPO) governed and led by people with disability, working for long-term social change. Founded in 2003, AFDO represents member organisations across Australia and acts as a unified national voice on disability policy, rights, and NDIS reform.
ASAN is a national advocacy organisation run by and for autistic people, working to advance the rights of autistic people through public policy, community-building, and direct support. Their motto is "Nothing About Us Without Us."
Formed at the inaugural Caribbean Disability Conference in Grenada in October 2024, the Caribbean Disability Network is a regional body fostering cross-country collaboration among disability advocates and organisations from across the English, French, Dutch, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. CDN drives policy reform — including Belize's landmark Disability Act of December 2024 — and coordinates digital accessibility initiatives with support from the Caribbean Development Bank.
Founded in 1972 by Ed Roberts and peers, the Center for Independent Living in Berkeley is the world's first independent living centre and a foundational force of the disability rights movement. CIL provides peer counselling, advocacy, and direct services to over 1,000 people each year in the San Francisco Bay Area.
China's national government-commissioned federation representing the interests of the country's 85 million persons with disabilities, established in Beijing in 1988. CDPF oversees national disability policy, rehabilitation services, vocational training, and accessibility standards through a network of provincial and county branches employing approximately 120,000 staff.
Canada's leading charity for people who are blind, Deafblind, or have low vision, delivering programs, peer support, and advocacy since 1918. CNIB operates national programs with local presence in every province and territory.