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June 14, 2016 Disability News & Services, Medical, News, Products, Services, Supporting the Mission

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 ...

June 1, 2016 Disability News & Services, For Employees, In the Community, News, Supporting the Mission

  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 ...

May 25, 2016 Disability News & Services, In the Community, News, Products, Services, Supporting the Mission

  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 ...

May 13, 2016 For Employees, In the Community, Supporting the Mission

  MDI is a proud sponsor of The Minnesota Governor’s Fishing Opener! For the past few years, we have donated over 500 corrugated plastic totes for this event. Our totes are multipurpose and reusable.

May 10, 2016 Disability News & Services, Supporting the Mission

  4th Annual “Stomp on Stigma” 5K To Support National Mental Health Awareness Month On May 7th, a few MDI employees participated in the annual “Stomp on Stigma!” This 5K event began at 9:30 at the IRA Civic Center in ...

April 28, 2016 Disability News & Services, Supporting the Mission

  People with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed as those without a disability. The poverty rate for working-age adults with disabilities is 3X that of individuals without disabilities. Nearly 28% of working-age adults with a disability were ...

April 27, 2016 Disability News & Services, In the Community, News, Supporting the Mission

  Thanks to a $25,000 grant from the Otto Bremer Foundation, MDI was able to purchase a much-needed piece of manufacturing machinery. Here’s Beth, one of the MDI team leads, with the BEL erector and sealer. It’s super user-friendly, so several employees with ...

April 19, 2016 Disability News & Services, For Employees, In the Community, News, Supporting the Mission

  Employment planning services are designed to assist a person seeking employment to learn about employment opportunities within the community and to make informed decisions. Employment planning services are individualized to assist a person to choose employment outcomes and/or career ...

March 14, 2016 Disability News & Services, For Employees, In the Community, News, Products, Supporting the Mission

Click to Request a Quote March 14, 2016 – MDI is pleased to announce today that the organization has officially purchased a 110,000 square foot facility and adjacent land in Cohasset, Minnesota. This investment is in direct support of MDI’s ...

March 14, 2016 Disability News & Services, In the Community, News, Products, Supporting the Mission

  A practical theory works in providing products to the business community and jobs for people with disabilities. Quietly – for over 50 years – an organization in Minnesota, initiated and developed a working theory of Social Enterprise and now ...