Advocating Change Together
www.selfadvocacy.com
ACT is a grassroots disability rights organization run by and for people with developmental and other disabilities. ACT’s mission is to help people across disabilities see themselves as part of a larger disability rights movement and make connections with other civil and human rights efforts.

ADAPT
www.adapt.org
ADAPT is a national grass-roots community that organizes disability rights activists to engage in nonviolent direct action, including civil disobedience, to assure the civil and human rights of people with disabilities to live in freedom.

American Association of People with Disabilities
www.aapd-dc.org
The largest national nonprofit cross-disability member organization in the United States. Their website includes news updates as well as disability resources, with several ways to advocate for the rights of persons with disabilities.

Center for Disability Rights, Inc.
www.cdrnys.org
The Center for Disability Rights, Inc. offers a vast array of services and support for individuals with all times of disabilities, regardless of age or income.

The Council for Disability Rights
www.disabilityrights.org
This site includes the Council’s bookstore, a video to watch and spur discussion, and several useful links on topics including accessibility, assistive technology, employment, home modification, voting resources, and more.

Disabled Peoples’ International
www.dpi.org
DPI is the only global, grassroots, cross-disability network of national organizations and assemblies of persons with disabilities.

Disability Rights Advocates
www.dralegal.org
Disability Rights Advocates is a nonprofit law firm dedicated to securing civil rights of people with disabilities. DRA advocates for disability rights through high-impact litigation, as well as research and education, and offers their services free of charge.

Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund
www.dredf.org
The Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund, founded in 1979, is a leading national civil rights law and policy center directed by individuals with disabilities and parents who have children with disabilities.

Disability Rights Section Homepage
www.usdoj.gov/crt/drs/drshome.php
Contains several useful links including an FAQ on the American Disabilities Act, A Guide to Disability Rights Laws, and updates about the Civil Rights Division’s activities in the area of disability rights.

Harvard Project on Disability
www.hpod.org
HPOD supports the development of disability civil society, informs innovative legislative policy and policy development, and provides legal advice and human rights training to persons with disabilities, their representative organizations, non-governmental organizations, national human rights institutions, and governments.

National Center for Learning Disabilities
www.ncld.org
Information and resources on learning disabilities. The National Center for Learning Disabilities’ mission is to ensure that the nation’s 15 million children, adolescents, and adults with learning disabilities have every opporunity to succeed in school, work, and life.

National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth
www.ncld-youth.info/index.htm
The National Consortium on Leadership and Disability for Youth (NCLD) serves as a national youth-led information, training, and resource center for disability rights.

National Council on Disability
www.ncd.gov
Sign up for the National Council’s listserv to stay up-to-date on disability rights issues in the U.S. The Council’s website also provides their publications for viewing in addition to updated current events.

National Disability Rights Network
www.napas.org
Working for the protection of and advocacy for individuals with disabilities, the NDRN website is available in English, Spanish, and French and includes a variety of resources, links, and articles to inform yourself and others on disability issues.

United Nations Enable
www.un.org/disabilities
This is the main site for the International Convention ont he Rights of Persons with Disabilities. It includes information on the guiding principles of the convention, monitoring of implementation in State Parties to the convention, and updates on ratifications.