CQL is a proud member of:
Alliance for Full Participation
The Alliance for Full Participation (AFP) is a formal partnership of leading organizations serving the developmental disabilities field that share a common vision- to help create a better and more fulfilling quality of life for people with developmental disabilities. AFP was created in this vision and the hope that through the diversity of our many voices we can collectively achieve this goal.
AFP’s member organizations have diverse histories, leadership, members and priorities, but they are ultimately working toward the same end. In 2005, AFP hosted a Summit around the theme, “Many Voices, One Vision.” For the first time in history, our organizations came together to host a national Summit to create a social agenda and action plan for fulfilling its mission. Over 2,400 people gathered in Washington, DC to help craft a strategic policy and social agenda in support of full participation, and to carry forward and implement that agenda in their communities.
In the fall of 2011, AFP will once again host a Summit, this time focused on making fully integrated employment a reality for all people with disabilities. Leading up to the Summit, AFP will sponsor national and state-wide town halls and other initiatives to make our employment vision a reality.
Maryland Association of Nonprofits
Maryland Nonprofits was established in 1992 as a result of a comprehensive statewide organizing effort in the nonprofit and philanthropic community involving hundreds of nonprofit executives and volunteer leaders. Today, it is one of the largest and most successful nonprofit associations in the United States with more than 1,700 nonprofit organization members, 400 associate members, and 30 staff.
Maryland Nonprofits is statewide and sector-wide. Members represent every county of Maryland and all sub-sectors of the nonprofit community, including human services, health, educational, cultural, environmental, religious, and other charitable organizations and foundations. The size of these organizations is also diverse, ranging from all volunteer organizations to major institutions. The association truly represents the diversity of Maryland's nonprofit community.
Maryland Nonprofits' mission is to strengthen and support nonprofits’ ability to serve the public, while promoting the highest standards of ethics and accountability in nonprofit governance and management. Maryland Nonprofits strives to increase recognition of, trust in and support for the nonprofit sector and to expand the influence of the nonprofit sector on issues that impact the people and communities it serves. The Maryland Nonprofits Standards for Excellence® Program is designed to promote excellence and integrity in nonprofit organizations. The program is based on a code of conduct called the Standards for Excellence®: An Ethics and Accountability Code for the Nonprofit Sector.
Mosaic Collaborative
Mosaic established the Mosaic Collaborative for Disabilities Public Policy and Practice in August 2007 in an effort to work with diverse community partners around the world to promote social justice for people who have disabilities through research, learning opportunities and public policy initiatives. Working together, these partners contribute their expertise, resources, and time to changing the way our world's policies are shaped when it concerns disability issues.
The Mosaic Collaborative is the research/information arm of Mosaic - a faith-based organization serving people with developmental disabilities. Mosaic provides individualized services, living options, work choices, spiritual nurture and advocacy to people with disabilities in more than 250 communities across 14 states and Great Britain. Mosaic is an affiliated social ministry organization of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a recognized service organization of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and a member of Lutheran Services in America.
We are also a sponsor of:National Leadership Consortium at the University of Delaware
The National Leadership Consortium on Developmental Disabilities at the University of Delaware is a partnership of national developmental disabilities organizations that offers intensive week-long leadership institutes, distance learning opportunities, mentoring programs, continuing education programs, both undergraduate and graduate-level campus-based programs, and a resource-rich website all aimed at improving the lives of people with developmental disabilities and their families.