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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 27, 2016 For Employees

  With a monthly donation of just $10 you can provide four hours of job coaching for employees with disabilities. At MDI employees with and without disabilities work side-by-side, manufacturing plastic containers for business-to-business customers. Employees with and without disabilities ...

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

  The Dustin Damm Memorial Fund is setup to assist those on the Iron Range that are struggling with a major mental illness. These donations go towards medical co-pay’s, utilities, transportation, and other personal needs. Dustin was a client of RMHC who lost his ...

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 ...

May 6, 2016 News

  Be part of a fun night to support careers for people with disabilities. Events will be held at Bauhaus Brew Labs in Minneapolis on Tuesday, June 25th and at Klockow Brewing Company in Grand Rapids on Wednesday, July 17th.  Register: Minneapolis Register: Grand Rapids MDI transforms the lives of people with disabilities ...

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 ...