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2008 BBI Spotlight

Awards & Funding 2008

• 10.22.08 BBI creates public learning campaign to challenge perceptions toward individuals with disabilities [PDF file]
  : Press Release: BBI campaign to challenge perceptions of disability
• 10.15.08 BBI awarded $4.7 million for Disability Learning Consortium [PDF file]
  : Press Release: BBI funded for Disability Consortium
• 9.12.08 BBI awarded Research Contract to Study Tax Policy and Reimbursement for Personal Assistance Services [PDF file]
• 8.18.08 BBI awarded two Enitiative grants:
  : Inclusive Entrepreneurship for People with Disabilities grant [PDF file] to support Start-UP NY project
  : Entrepreneurship Bootcamp for Veterans with Disabilities (EBV) grant [PDF file] to support the Whitman School's EBV Program
• 8.12.08 BBI funded by U.S. Department of Education for 3-year Disability and Asset Accumulation Project [PDF file]
  : Press Release: BBI funded for Asset Accumulation Project

BBI Recognition 2008

• 8.27.08Blanck serves as co-counsel pro bono in Target.com settlement case [PDF file]
  : Final Settlement: Target.com case
  : Article: Target.com case
• 8.1.08 BBI: Innovation on Disability noted in Economic Impact Report of Syracuse University [ pg. 16] [PDF file]

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