Hello State and Local Coordinators!! This is it…the 2007 DMD Final Report!!! Upon completion of your Final Report, please send it to one of the following: * If you are in one of the following states, please send your 2007 DMD Final Report to your State Coordinator. You can find your respected State Coordinator at http://www.dmd- aapd.org/docs/stateorg.php : Alabama | Alaska | Colorado | Florida | Hawaii | Idaho | Illinois | Kansas | Kentucky | Maine | Maryland | Minnesota | Mississippi | Missouri | New Jersey | New York | North Carolina | Ohio | Rhode Island | South Carolina | Tennessee | Texas | U.S. Virgin Islands | Vermont | Washington Your State Coordinator will turn in your original copy along with his/her State-wide DMD Final Report. * If you are not in one of these states, please send your 2007 DMD Final Report directly to AAPD using the following information: AAPD ATTN: 2007 DMD Final Report 1629 K St. NW, Suite 503 Washington DC 20006 Phone: 202-457-0046 Fax: 202-457-0473 email: dmdaapd@aol.com (Subject: 2007 DMD Final Report) Local Reports are due by November 19, 2007, to either AAPD or your State Coordinator. State Reports are due to the AAPD office by December 19, 2007. The Final Report will be online and available by January 19, 2008. Because I understand you are all busy with work that was probably postponed so that you could create a fantastic DMD in your community, I am pleased to offer the following incentives: Those Local and State coordinators who meet their submission deadlines will be entered in a drawing for a $100 Darden Restaurant Gift Certificate. Also, every Coordinator sending a completed Final Report will receive, in their name on behalf of their organization, a Certificate of Commendation for Leadership in DMD 2007 suitable for framing. Please contact me with any questions, concerns, or with a request for an extension at 202-457- 0046 x32 or AAPDDavid@aol.com. Thank you for all your hard work and dedication! This year already feels like a tremendous success for DMD, and your Final Reports are such an important part of documenting your success. AAPD uses your Final Reports to ensure that we can continue to support DMD through strong corporate partnerships and reporting to our Board of Directors. We also create all of our 2008 DMD promotional materials and web resources from the stories of success you write. I look forward to working with you again next year. Sincerely, David E. Hale DMD National Coordinator and Program Manager AAPD Disability Mentoring Day Program Evaluation Thank you so much for your participation in Disability Mentoring Day. Please help us continue to grow and promote DMD by completing this short report so we can learn about your program and learn how to support you better. Please use additional paper when necessary. All final reports will be combined and posted online by January 19, 2008. I. Basics 1. Local Coordinator Name: 2. Local Coordinator Organization: 3. Email: 4. Phone/TTY: Other members of Local Organizing Committee if applicable: II. Participants and Locations 5. Area Served: (Cities, Counties, State) 6. Mentees: Number of High School Students:______ Number of College Students:_________ Number of Job Seekers:____________ Participation by Disability Type (Please, check any that applies and include the number for each, if possible.): Sensory (i.e., Deaf, blind)_______________ Intellectual____________ Developmental_________ Neurological___________ Physical_______________ Mentors: Name of Mentoring Organization City, State Number of Mentors III. DMD Corporate Partnerships 7. Did you work with a Darden restaurant (Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Smokey Bones, and Bahama Breeze)? If so, with which restaurants did you work? (Please also list your contact, i.e. General Manager name and number) 8. How did you work with a Darden restaurant? Please list which restaurants apply to your choice. a) I helped the restaurant find a disability organization near them because they were too far away to participate in my DMD program. b) I was their local contact; the restaurant had already chosen the organization they would donate too. c) The restaurant donated food to my DMD program or hosted a DMD Meeting. d) The restaurant participated directly in DMD activities (i.e. job-shadowing, mentoring). e) Other (please explain). 9. How would you rate your experience with Darden Restaurants? (Please comment or explain,) Great Average Poor NA 10. What was your experience of the Darden sponsorship, generally? Please provide any suggestions and constructive criticism to improve this partnership. 11. What was your experience working with other DMD national sponsors (AIG, Suntrust Banks, Wells Fargo, Verizon, Social Security Administration, etc.), generally? 12. Do you have suggestions for future DMD national sponsors, based on your local sponsors or work locally? IV. Financial 13. What did your DMD cost (approx.)? Cash- In-kind Donations- Staff Time- And how did you fund your DMD? a) My organization was able to cover the costs b) We got donations from local businesses c) We called the DMD National Sponsors for financial or in-kind support. If you chose “b,” please list the local businesses you contacted and what level of sponsorship you obtained: If you chose “c,” please list which sponsors you contacted and from whom you were able to receive donations: V. Program and Outcomes 14. Please tell us a little about your DMD program and its structure. For instance, do you host a job or career-fair or do you place mentees directly with employers and mentors or both, do you serve mainly high-school students or vocational consumers, on how many days are your DMD activities, etc.: 15. Describe any activities that you conducted in conjunction with your DMD programs. For instance, did you do a local roll-out or press event, did you host a kick-off event or wrap-up session, did you or anyone else promote or host DMD at other events (cross-promotion), etc.: 16. Did your participants receive any employment, internship or longer-term mentoring experiences from DMD? Please elaborate and include any personal stories you wish: 17. Did you get any official proclamations of DMD from your Mayor, Governor or other public official? (Please give details): 18. Please share any quotes you may have or have heard from others regarding your DMD activities; use additional pages if necessary, or attach physical media. Also, please attach, digitally copy, or forward any pictures or other media you gathered from your DMD activities. You may also provide links to any Internet source. 19. Did you receive any media coverage of your event? Please be specific and attach copies if possible. Feel free to continue at the end of the last page, or add more lines if needed. Date Time Copy Attached to Report or web link? Newsletter x Newspaper x Online x Radio Television Other V. AAPD 20. Were you in contact with AAPD during your planning process? How did you find the contact or availability of AAPD staff related to DMD? 21. Did you use the DMD brochures/posters? Are these useful for AAPD to produce? What other kinds of materials could we produce? (i.e., “Save the Date” postcards) 22. How could AAPD support your local effort more? 23. In what areas did you find AAPD most helpful? 24. In what areas would you like to see improvement from AAPD in regards to DMD? 25. Did you participate in any of the LC Conference Calls? If so: i) Were the LC calls in which you participated helpful? How could they be improved? ii) Should AAPD utilize more or fewer LC conference calls? iii) What other topics should be covered on LC conference calls? 26. AAPD is trying to add more State Coordinators to help support local DMD efforts. If you had a State Coordinator, was he/she helpful? How would you characterize the support and contact you received from you State Coordinator? 27. Would you be interested in attending a national DMD Local/State Coordinator training designed to help you improve and expand your local DMD activities? 28. Please share any additional comments here. Specifically, if there is something you wanted to share about your local DMD activities, or DMD nationally, please feel free to say as much, or as little, as you would like. Please also feel free to send along with this Final Report, copies of any information you believe would be helpful in promoting your local DMD activities (press releases, promotional materials, success stories, local proclamations, etc.). 1 6