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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 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 ...

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 ...

April 19, 2016 Disability News & Services, For Employees, In the Community, News, Supporting the Mission

  Employment planning services are designed to assist a person seeking employment to learn about employment opportunities within the community and to make informed decisions. Employment planning services are individualized to assist a person to choose employment outcomes and/or career ...

April 14, 2016 Disability News & Services

  MDI would like to help spread the word about Autism and other related developmental disorders. Autism affects one out of every 88 children in the United States alone. According to Autism speaks, children and adults with Autism experience social-emotional difficulties, communication challenges and prolonged periods of repetitive behaviors. ...

April 6, 2016 Disability News & Services, For Employees

  An individual can spend months, sometimes years, applying for and obtaining Social Security disability benefits. Going back to work after a long period out of the workforce can be nerve racking on its own. Having to think about what ...

April 6, 2016 Disability News & Services, In the Community, News

  Two of our employees, Ed Goggleye and Benjamin Pederson, participated in the Special Olympics, Minnesota this year!  

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 ...