LINKS - ADDITIONAL DISABILITY and
Where blind and visually impaired people share the tools they need to develop and succeed in rewarding careers.
The Disability Resources
Monthly (DRM) Guide To Disability Resources on the Internet
"Disability Resources, inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization established
to promote and improve awareness, availability and accessibility of information
that can help people with disabilities live, learn, love, work and play
independently."
EntreWorld
URL: http://www.entreworld.org/
"Communicating with entrepreneurs takes many forms. As tools for sharing information, the Internet and World Wide Web enable millions of people every day to share information. EntreWorld serves as a critical resource for starting and growing businesses and for those supporting entrepreneurship, offering the best information on key aspects of business development and connecting to other targeted sites on the Web."
The Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities created this site, www.disAbility.gov, to provide one-stop online access to resources, services, and information available throughout the Federal government.
"Working with companies, government and nonprofits to employ people with disabilities."
Womenbiz.gov is an initiative by the Interagency Committee on Women’s Business Enterprise IACWBE.
WID is a non-profit international public policy center dedicated to carrying out cutting-edge research on disability issues and overcoming obstacles to independent living.
"WorkingWoman.com redefines the way business is conducted by centralizing best-of-class tools, applications, knowledge, and industry connections, which enable businesswomen to succeed in their careers and business endeavors."
"BusinessFinance.com is all about helping Businesses. We strive to provide the most up to date content available to assist in obtaining capital, gaining support, finding government programs, getting expert help, and much more. "
Entrepreneurship Education is the process of providing individuals with the concepts and skills to recognize opportunities that others have overlooked, and to have the insight, self-esteem and knowledge to act where others have hesitated. It includes instruction in opportunity recognition, marshaling resources in the face of risk, and initiating a business venture. It also includes instruction in business management processes such as businessplanning, capital development, marketing, and cash flow analysis.
This website contains
copies of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA), ADA regulations,
technical assistance manuals prepared by the United States Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC) or the and other United States Department
of Justice(DOJ), technical assistance documents sponsored by the National
Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR) and reviewed
by EEOC or DOJ.
Representing Asian American entrepreneurship and small businesses.
Features include home-based business success stories, how to set up your home office, resources, opportunities, and more.
Small and home business daily magazine aimed at entrepreneurs looking to grow or start their own companies.
This site provides ideas for mothers who work out of the home or are trying to start a home business. Includes ideas for getting started and a list of organizations that support women working out of the home.
Books, audio and video tapes, trade directors, and software for business owners.
Advice on everything from business plans to financing options.
A government-wide compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities which provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by departments and establishments of the Federal government.
Each regional office provides information, materials, technical assistance, or training on the ADA.
A website that links to many employment-related resources for people with disabilities.
Features daily news, chat rooms, message boards, interactive coursework, and more.
Features articles on running your own small business or working for someone else from your home office.
Whether your business is presently underway or just a notion warming your soul, your information resources are just a click away. Here's a collection of some of the more useful ones we are aware of, most of which provide free material to grow your entrepreneurial and/or parenting knowledgebase and some that offer free services (such as searchable databases).
Our website features recognized and published authors that can give advice and make recommendations to all those seeking guidance in the hands-on arena of small business management.
EntreWorld is an online
information resource for entrepreneurs and supporters of entrepreneurship.
EntreWorld provides a solution to information overload on the Web by providing
highly filtered information coded by stage of business development. Links
to a variety of resources related to home business, career choices, managing
work & family, and marketing.
A small business legal center written for the layperson. Includes a legal guide for starting and running a small business.
"This page will link you to some of the best and most current information on teleworking in the world. It is updated bi-monthly, purged of dead links, and new entries are flagged as well."
Presents articles for home business owners and links to government and small business websites.
Assistance, information, and resources for small business owners looking for financing.
Download tax forms view IRS publications, and get advice from tax collectors themselves.
The Small Business Corner provides links to items on the Internal Revenue Service's Digital Daily which are helpful to small businesses.
Links to an extensive list of disability-related sites.
One of the best sources of links to small business & entrepreneurial websites.
Profiles of over 400,000 lawyers.
Provides many links to home-based business and telecommuting resources.
1900 Chicago Avenue
South, Minneapolis, MN 55404
Phone: (612) 752-8100
TDD: (612) 752-8019
The Minnesota Resource Center--in partnership with the business and
rehabilitation communities--expands employment opportunities for individuals with
disabilities or other barriers through effective evaluation, training, placement, and
retention services.
Offers four virtual centers focused on franchising, aquaculture, international trade, and manufacturing.
For and about minority and women business owners. Covers legislation, policy issues, financing, and more.
This program is a primer for current and prospective small business owners. It gives a quick overview of the legal issues and concerns faced by a small business. This information should help you ask questions of your attorney, accountant, or other professional adviser. All statements are based upon North Carolina or federal law.
Offers tips and networking opportunities for women balancing family and professional obligations.
OJM is an employment and job-placement program bringing the employer and employee together with innovative solutions to workplace flexibility. It is a win-win approach that assists individuals with adult-onset, physical disabilities to establish flexwork options with their employers. A five year Department of Education grant, Projects with Industry (PWI), offers financial resources by supporting this uniquie approach to employment. PWI enables individuals with disabilities to work outside the tradiitional office setting.
Links to a variety of resources related to self-employment.
Project RSVP, also known as the Referral System for Vocational Rehabilitation Providers Project, is an initiative by the Social Security Administration (SSA) to expand vocational rehabilitation (VR) services to SSA beneficiaries by enabling both public and private VR providers to participate in this program. Under this project, providers are known as "alternate participants," or APs. The term alternate participant identifies and distinguishes individuals, businesses, agencies, and organizations that have contracted with SSA to deliver VR services from State vocational rehabilitation agencies.
Answers to common tax questions, including IRA deducations.
On-line business consultation from retired business executives. Also find out how to contact the SCORE chapter nearest you.
A site that has a wealth of information related to small and home-business.
(Our Weekly Television Series in USA and the world - aired on PBS stations around the country) "By the end of the year 2000, we hope to have traveled around the world to find the stories for Small Business 2000. We will have completed over 150 shows about entrepreneurs; we will have done a few television specials (one-hour, live, with open lines for viewer questions), hundreds of speeches and seminars, and a few special productions. Much of it will be digitized and broadcast around the world. And it is our greatest hope that these discussions about the nature of life and work become questions and answer arrays on the WWW so every hour of every day, anybody can get access to the wisdom of other people."
Offers solutions to the daily challenges of growing a business. Topics include management, finance, marketing, technology, health care and personnnel.
Find the latest information about tax laws affecting your small business.
This page includes choosing and starting a new business, government regulations, legal issues, company structure, location, funding, etc.
These projects are funded under the Technology-related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act.
This web site is dedicated to promoting telecommuting as a significant option and service, in both employment and education, for persons with disabilities. We are collecting, compiling and presenting telecommuting resources and information, in a way that will help to increase the successful use of telecommuting as full-time or part-time employment and continuing education option.
Success stories featuring entrepreneurs with disabilities whose businesses have proven to be profitable.
Information regarding patents and trademarks.
Webentrepreneurs.com
1369 Fourth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92101
Phone: (619) 243-9898
URL: http://www.webentrepreneurs.com/visitorshome.cfm
Provides resources for starting and maintaining a web-based business.
News, tips, resource,s e-newsletters, links and other valuable information for solo business owners.
Provides links to hundreds of sites related to small and home business.
Business publication targeted exclusively to small business owners.
