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2024 Do Good Business Conference
Learn about how to create more job opportunities for people with disabilities
(Ridgefield, CT) June 28, 2024
Join the Prospector on October 17th, 2024 for a full-day, hybrid conference detailing how diversity, inclusion, and accessibility can better your business and bottom line. Check in and a continental breakfast begins at 8AM, with speakers starting at 9AM.
Participants will learn strategies for creating competitive and inclusive employment and universally-designed customer experiences. Featuring keynotes, panels, and breakout sessions, the Do Good Business Conference will be a collaborative space for mission-driven businesses to learn from accessibility experts, game-changing entrepreneurs, HR professionals, non-profit start-ups, and industry leaders.
Proud to Announce Our Keynote Speakers: John & Mark X. Cronin of John’s Crazy Socks.
About the Conference:
Why Do Good Business?
Around 80% of Americans with disabilities have no job. We can work, want to work, and add tremendous value. Through universally designing workplaces and businesses, we can tap into a talented workforce and a consumer market with over $500B in discretionary income.
What we’re doing isn’t nice; it’s good business.
Since opening, the Prospector has received hundreds of replication inquiries. Employment opportunities are still hard to find for many people with disabilities. Automation is on the rise, sheltered workshops are closing their doors, and more parents than ever are wondering what happens after the post-transition cliff. We need to make a larger impact at a quicker rate.
The Do Good Business Conference is a forum where we can share our successes and strategies, helping employers to understand how inclusion and accessibility can better their business and bottom line. Through this collaboration, we will create a community like-minded organizations who can work together to address everyday obstacles and systemic change. It’s time we all sparkled together. Are you ready to Do Good Business?
About The Prospector: The Prospector is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit providing competitive and inclusive employment for people with disabilities through the operation of a first-run movie theater and online popcorn business.
About John’s Crazy Socks:
John's Crazy Socks is a social enterprise with a simple mission: we’re spreading happiness.
Our company was built on the love between father (Mark) and son (John) and their desire to make people happy. Because John has Down syndrome, we have a focus on showing what people with differing abilities can do. That means we hire people with differing abilities and we do all we can through videos, social media shares, warehouse tours, hosting work groups, speaking engagements, advocacy and donations to share with the world what people with differing abilities can do. We are a small company, yet all we are trying to do is change the world.
