For the past 13 months, MDI has had the opportunity to employ 6 individuals supported by 3 different job coaches from the Aitkin County Developmental Achievement Center (DAC) in McGregor, MN. These employees had the opportunity to learn many new skills including folding various types of totes and trays produced at MDI. Some received training and worked on the ultrasonic ... Read moreRead Article

  MDI’s new form product line is featured in Industrial Equipment News Since 1933, the industrial sector has looked to IEN for the latest news and information on products, components and equipment.Read Article

  Rachel Wobschall, senior major gift officer for Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul, and a board member at MDI, cultivates donors to help fund treatment for children, teens and young adults with disabilities or medical conditions. Rachel Wobschall, 57, is senior major gift officer for Gillette Children’s Specialty Healthcare in St. Paul. Q. What kinds of ... Read moreRead Article

  While picking up some lunch, I paged through a People Magazine in the checkout lane and saw Aimee Copeland was being featured. Last year, I had the opportunity to hear her speak at the MSSA Social Service Training Conference, she was a keynote speaker and truly inspirational. In 2012, Aimee fell onto some rocks from a homemade zip line ... Read moreRead Article

  Wilder Research’s July 2016 study of MDI reports for each dollar donated to or spend with MDI, there is a social return on investment (SROI) of $4.87. MDI’s social enterprise business model provides careers for people with disabilities in a manufacturing setting. Wilder focused the analysis on personal benefits from salaries, taxes paid, the economic impact on taxpayers ... Read moreRead Article

MDI’s Hired Hands Moves to Cohasset Join MDI for a luncheon at the new facility in Cohasset located at 1001 NW 3rd Street, Cohasset, MN Thursday, July 28, 2016, 11:30 – 1:30 p.m. Enjoy a tour, music, and prize drawing. First 200 people will receive a free MDI tote! MDI’s Hired Hands employees are moving ... Read moreRead Article

  When you shop at AmazonSmile, Amazon will donate to MDI. Support us every time you shop. smile.amazon.com   About AmazonSmileAmazonSmile is a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find the exact same low prices, vast selection ... Read moreRead Article

  Thanks to a $16,000 grant from Wells Fargo, MDI was able to  purchase a new piece of manufacturing machinery. Here’s Jeff Gervais, MDI’s, Operations Manager, with the shrink packaging system. The DEM combo shrink system combines a heavy duty L-Bar Sealer and Shrink Tunnel for packing, sealing and shrinking products. The machine can be used with a ... Read moreRead Article

Click to Request a Quote The Evolution and Spectrum of Non-Profit Organizations A social enterprise is one of several organizational types delivering services and opportunities to their respective communities. Non-profits have a business model and the graphic below brings greater clarity to the options available in supporting a specific cause and community. Business models progress ... Read moreRead Article

  Valuable yet Hard to Find Remember how excited you were when you got your very first job as a kid and started earning your own money? Employment opportunities for students with disabilities are not always easy to find and don’t always go smoothly because the employer may not have an understanding of how to ... Read moreRead Article

  With a monthly donation of just $10 you can provide four hours of job coaching for employees with disabilities. At MDI employees with and without disabilities work side-by-side, manufacturing plastic containers for business-to-business customers. Employees with and without disabilities have mastered a variety of manufacturing machinery. Our founder, John DuRand, wrote in his book The ... Read moreRead Article

  MDI is a manufacturing organization that provides standard and custom packaging solutions, production services, and environmental services for business-to-business customers. We manufacture corrugated plastic products; a wide variety of totes, trays, boxes rolls and sheets of plastic, used by distribution and warehouse centers, retail, manufacturing and agriculture businesses all over the country. MDI provides ... Read moreRead Article