Disability Rights Advocates
Disability Rights Advocates
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About this organization
Mission
With offices in California and New York, Disability Rights Advocates (DRA) is one of the leading nonprofit disability rights legal centers in the nation. Its mission is to advance equal rights and opportunity for people with all types of disabilities nationwide. DRA identifies and dismantles barriers in partnership with a broad network of local and national client organizations, representing people with the full spectrum of disabilities, including mobility, sensory, cognitive, and psychiatric. DRA represents these organizations in complex, system-change class-action cases. DRA never charges its clients for representation. In the organization’s 25 year history, DRA has taken on hundreds of cases and won almost all—achieving dramatic improvements for people with disabilities.
About
DRA advocates nationally through high-impact class action litigation on behalf of people with all types of disabilities, including mobility, hearing, vision, learning and psychological disabilities. Through negotiation and litigation, DRA has made thousands of facilities throughout the country accessible and has enforced access rights for millions of people with disabilities in many key areas of life, including access to technology, education, employment, transportation and health care.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
From their filing, the objective of the non-profit is stated as “A non-profit legal center dedicated to securing the civil rights of people with disabilities. dra advocates for disability rights through high-impact litigation, as well as research and education.”.
When talking about its functions, they were outlined as: “To ensure dignity, equality, and opportunity for people with all types of disabilities”.
- The legally reported state of operation for the non-profit is CA.
- According to the filing, the non-profit's address in 2020 is 2001 CENTER STREET 4TH FLOOR, BERKELEY, CA, 94704.
- The non-profit organization as of 2020 has a total of 47 employees reported on their form.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$2,095,596.
- The organization has 16 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1993.
- The organization pays $3,958,764 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $286,365 in fundraising expenses.