Case Study: The Tennessee Disabilities Coalition

The Interview The Tennessee Disabilities Coalition (TDC) is a collection of various nonprofit organizations that have come together in order to aid both disabled children and adults improve on their lives. Originating from an informal volunteers and groups of individuals performing community service, TDC was formalized in 1988 and received its first major grant in 1989 from the Tennessee Developmental Disabilities Council. Since then, it has been steadily building up into the major support for disabled Tennesseans that it is today. ‘Ms. Hailey’ had been the interviewed for this paper (name changed for privacy purposes). She is a younger woman in her mid-twenties that has been working as an agent for the Coalition for the past few years. This paper would like to recognize the effort Ms. Hailey made to willingly drive an hour from her initial residence (Chattanooga) to Knoxville to have this meeting in person instead of simply holding it over the phone, and thank her for such opportunity to do so. The TDC is a collaboration between multiple disability and support organizations through Tennessee. …show more content…
While the majority of the money goes into offering support to families with disabilities, it also goes into grants to help small organizations focused on disabilities that aren’t immediately part of the Coalition. This grant runs about 100,000 a year, with 50,000 given in the spring and 50,000 given in the fall as listed by their website (Small Grants Program, 2016). This was to bulster organizations that wished to aid in the TDC’s overall goal, but did not immediately qualify or wish to join the Coalition for whatever