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March 14, 2016 Disability News & Services, For Employees, In the Community, News, Products, Supporting the Mission

Click to Request a Quote March 14, 2016 – MDI is pleased to announce today that the organization has officially purchased a 110,000 square foot facility and adjacent land in Cohasset, Minnesota. This investment is in direct support of MDI’s ...

March 14, 2016 Disability News & Services, In the Community, News, Products, Supporting the Mission

  A practical theory works in providing products to the business community and jobs for people with disabilities. Quietly – for over 50 years – an organization in Minnesota, initiated and developed a working theory of Social Enterprise and now ...

March 11, 2016 Disability News & Services, For Employees, In the Community, News, Supporting the Mission

  More capability. More business. More jobs. The timing is right for you to help purchase machinery for MDI to enter the foam packaging business. Foam is custom- designed to protect products during manufacturing, transport, storage and display and can ...

March 8, 2016 News, Products

  MDI is proud to announce we are now offering custom foam packaging solutions, including a variety of foams designed to protect products during manufacturing, transport, storage and display. Several foam types are offered such as polyethylene, polypropylene, polystyrene, polyurethane, anti-static and neoprene. MDI designs and delivers a ...

March 2, 2016 Disability News & Services

  Join MDI on March 2nd to raise awareness of the hurtfulness of the R-word. The R-word is exclusive, offensive and derogatory. The campaign asks people to pledge to stop saying the R-word as a starting point toward creating more accepting attitudes and communities for ...

February 22, 2016 Disability News & Services

Value in Products, Value in Relationships and Valued People Very often we see ourselves and believe others see us as a person with skills. Just as often, our value is determined by the skills we have mastered and display. And ...

February 18, 2016 For Employees, In the Community, News

Debi Thompson has joined MDI as Director of Human Resources. She is responsible for providing executive organization-wide leadership, direction, support, and guidance on all issues relating to human resources, ensuring alignment between MDI’s human resources practices, and MDI’s organizational objectives. Thompson has ...

February 16, 2016 Disability News & Services, In the Community, Supporting the Mission

A minute of cold… for a moment of joy. The Polar Plunge challenges thousands of people in Minnesota to jump in the clear, blue icy waters of Minnesota. The Plunge supports Special Olympics in Minnesota. This is the 19th year for The Plunge. ...

February 8, 2016 Disability News & Services, News

Everyday thousands of Minnesotans go to work knowing they could make more money in a different field yet are dedicated to their career choice of supporting people with disabilities in their homes and at their jobs. These dedicated workers have ...

February 1, 2016 Disability News & Services

“Liberty requires opportunity to make a living – a living which gives a person not only enough to live by, but something to live for.”  – Franklin Delano Roosevelt John DuRand wasn’t thinking of history when he founded MDI in 1964.  ...