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From Elaine Pagels, a request to share your knowledge and compassion:

Dear Friends, Family and Colleagues:

I would be very appreciative if you would consider asking professional
friends/contacts to complete our research survey looking at
Professional Benchmarks of Productivity and Perceptions of
Professionals with Evident Disabilities. Respondents can be from "any"
professional field – they simply need to have or have had hiring
responsibility into their company. We've invested a lot in this
effort, and we're close to achieving the respondent numbers that we
need for the professors to extract valid data and meaning from this
research.

Below is some simple language to cut/paste into body of an email along
with the survey link. Thanks so much for your efforts on this. It is
genuinely an organizational undertaking and, if we're able to close
the loop on this research initiative it can make an impact on future
employment and training models to support a more robust and diverse
workforce to include qualified candidates with disabilities.

Pat Maher
nAblement Director
SPR Inc.
233 S. Wacker Drive
Suite 3500
Chicago, IL 60606
Office 312-756-1760 x220
Cell 630-220-8895

Email pmaher@sprinc.com

"Dear :

SPR, through its nAblement division, has commissioned some critical
employer side research in the Midwest investigating Benchmarks of
Productivity and Perceptions of Professionals with Evident
Disabilities. The principal investigators, Fong Chan, PhD, of the
University of Wisconsin at Madison and Dave Strauser, PhD, of the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, are well-respected in the
field of rehabilitation psychology and life sciences.

I would greatly appreciate 20 minutes of your time to go to the survey
home page (link below) and complete the survey surrounding this
research. Strict confidentiality as to your name or your
organization's name will be maintained in any publications, reviews,
or critiques that may derive from this effort. By completing this
survey you will be adding valuable insights into the challenges of
improving professional employment opportunities for working-age
candidates with disabilities. The Department of Labor's Office of
Disability Employment Policy and other national policy-advising bodies
have noted the critical need for this type of demand-side research
data.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=BHKcWJ2RrCVmY0MQ6c1CiQ_3d_3d

Thanks much for your support."