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Double Your Impact on December 1st!

10/20/15 - Disability Awareness Players, Disability Awareness Training, Education, Events, Good Web Finds, jjslist.com, Search, Inc., Social Enterprise, Uncategorized - 0 Comments

On Tuesday, December 1, 2015, please consider taking part in a unique opportunity to support Search, Inc. and JJsList.com on #GivingTuesday, a global day of giving. Our #GivingTuesday partner, The Coleman Foundation, has generously pledged to match dollar for dollar all new and increased donations up to…

How To Exercise Good Internet Judgement

10/02/15 - Accessibility in Public, Disability-Aware Service, Education, Good Web Finds, Social Enterprise, Tools and aids, Uncategorized - 2 Comments

Using the internet is something that’s becoming increasingly important when it comes to looking for a job or building life-skills but it can get confusing with all the rules and procedures so how do we exercise good judgement when going online?

At No Boundaries, we talk…

No Boundaries and Local Bakery ‘Flour’ish!

09/24/15 - Business News, Disability Awareness Players, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Disability-Aware Service, Education, Events, Good Web Finds, Inspiring People, jjslist.com, No Boundaries, Search, Inc., Social Enterprise, Uncategorized - 2 Comments

We always have cause to celebrate when a hard-working Search-No Boundaries participant gets a job. This time it feels personal because the employer, Hewn Artisan Bread, is a local business that has been building its disability awareness through direct, business-to-business contact with JJsList.com. They are…

Matthew On The Job

08/25/15 - Business News, Disability Awareness Players, Disability Awareness Training, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Down Syndrome, Education, Events, Featured Blogger of the Month, Good Web Finds, Inspiring People, jjslist.com, No Boundaries, Search, Inc., Transportation, Uncategorized - 3 Comments

I like vacation but I love to work the most. I work at Lou Malnati’s, an Italian restaurant in Evanston, Illinois. I work in the kitchen on Wednesdays and host during the weekends. I also work at Walmart as a Sales Associate. In my role…

My Experience at No Boundaries – By Melissa

08/12/15 - Business News, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability-Aware Businesses, Disability-Aware Service, Education, Employment First Act, Good Web Finds, Guest Blogger, Inspiring People, No Boundaries, Search, Inc., Social Enterprise, Tools and aids, Uncategorized - 1 Comment

When I first got to No Boundaries I thought it was like a store or something with people who are my age. The co-workers I work with are nice. When I started working here the first time I was nervous because this was my first…

Workplace Accommodation is Not a One-Way Street

08/07/15 - Accessibility in Public, ADA, Business News, Disability Employment and Housing, Disability Law, Disability-Aware Businesses, Education, Employment First Act, Featured Blogger of the Month, Good Web Finds, jjslist.com, Tools and aids, Uncategorized - 1 Comment

It’s the 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, and there are lots of conversations about the kind of progress that has been made in integrating individuals with disabilities into the workplace. But there are also many conversations underway about how much work we…

JJsList.com and Search, Inc. March In Chicago’s Disability Pride Parade

07/21/15 - Accessibility in Public, ADA, Business News, Disability Awareness Players, Disability in the Media, Disability Law, Disability-Aware Businesses, Disability-Aware Service, Education, Good Web Finds, Inspiring People, JJ's List Fun, jjslist.com, Social Enterprise, Uncategorized - 2 Comments

On an overcast Saturday morning that was being praised for not being 95 degrees and humid, a rowdy band of JJsList.com and Search, Inc. staffers, friends, and Disability Awareness Players gathered at Plymouth Court and Van Buren to get ready for Chicago’s 12th annual Disability Pride Parade. You…

Even CEOs Need Job Coaches

07/10/15 - Business News, Disability Awareness Training, Disability-Aware Businesses, Education, Inspiring People, Tools and aids, Uncategorized - 1 Comment

JJ Hanley

I was listening to a podcast by a job coach the other day named Marshall Goldsmith. He’s a pretty famous guy in business because he’s a job coach to leaders of giant companies like General Electric and Motorola. That’s right. Even big CEOs of…

An Open Letter To the LGBT Community From JJsList.com

06/26/15 - Business News, Education, Events, Good Web Finds, Inspiring People, JJ's List Fun, jjslist.com, Person-First Language, Social Enterprise, Uncategorized - 4 Comments

Dearest LGBT Community,

The people working towards disability awareness at JJsList.com would like to show solidarity with the people working towards LGBT rights in response to the momentous #SCOTUS decision to legalize Marriage Equality in all fifty states of the United States.

The simple right to live an unencumbered and…

Mental Illness: The Invisible Disability

06/09/15 - Education, Good Web Finds, Guest Blogger, jjslist.com, No Boundaries, Social Enterprise, Uncategorized - 3 Comments

When you think of the word disability, what comes to mind? A person in a wheelchair? Maybe an individual with Down syndrome? We tend to only think of those with a physical or visible disability as actually being disabled because we can see it.

Odds…