People with Disabilities Foundation

“Some directors have reviewed the form 990, its schedules and related attachments in detail and have presented the return and their findings to the balance of the governing body for their concurrence.”

“Pwdf monitors this on an on-going basis; as a small agency, it would have been reported and discussed at every general annual and budget board meeting. This fy there was no need for enforcement.”

“Every year, the voting board reviews the staffing and salary structure at the pwdf general annual budget meeting in april or may. Periodically, (every 5 years), we purchase naional and regional salary data from guidestar to compare our salary structure with similar nonprofits that have similar budget amounts.”

“The documents are available upon request to the organization and also through the office of the california attorney general.”

“Received favorable outcomes in two federal court cases filed against the ssa alleging that they discriminate against people with mental (schizophrenia) and developmental (autism) disabilities. (case nos. 3:06- cv-6108 emc (nc) and 3:09-cv-980 emc (nc).) this is the first time the ssa has offered reasonable accommodations on the basis of mental/developmental disabilities. We are currently in the enforcement stage, ensuring the ssa is not in violation of this settlement agreement.”

“Public comments to governmental agencies advocating for policies and regulatory changes as they pertain to people with psychiatric and/or developmental disabilities, because this population is too often underrepresented and stigmatized. For example, we submitted comments on notices of proposed rulemakings to the ssa related to disability adjudication and to its work incentive programs. In addition, pwdf continues to market our training videos for distribution. We provide training on the americans with disabilities act (ada) and ssdi/ssi for people with mental and/or developmental disabilities statewide and locally, including for organizations such as nami california, nami san francisco chapter, nami marin chaper, the bar association of san francisco, and support for families of children with disabilities, among others. This year, we also provided a workshop on "life transitions: onset of incapacity from a legal perspective, management of the person and/or property, and social security disability benefits" for staff at the university of california, san francisco langley porter psychiatric hospital and clinics. We have been implementing recommendations from a "capstone" team of graduate students from the new york university's robert f. Wagner graduate school of public service on expanding pwdf's public awareness and education program from a primarily local program to national through the use of technology. Through these recommendations, we have split our 17 past seminar videos into roughly 30- to 45- minute segments and posted all the segments on our you tube channel so that they are widely available for free viewing by the public.”

“OTHER”