To Table of Contents money to the table , come to the table and be our partner . We ask the government to cut the red tape ; you have to let parents be creative with their models and let them do what they want to do and start crazy ideas . We ask the government , as long as it ' s consistent with public policy , and if we ' re willing to fund it , then why are you fighting it ? And they ' ve come a long , long , way . There is still be a long way to go but that ' s why we ' re excited about what we do because we have to continue to change the mindset of everyone . So therefore , we can just increase the opportunities for everybody .
What has been DOF ’ s main success story to date ?
This is on 3 levels : We started out by trying to introduce disabilities to the CDFI world and vice versa and we ' ve done that very , very well .
Public policy - housing , employment , education . We ' ve watched so much positives go on in the last 15 years , and there ' s so much more we can do , especially internationally , right ? Because there are obviously many areas internationally that are still trying to catch up with some of the policies here in the US and we can learn a little bit from some international programs going on that are creative as well .
The hotel in White Sulphur Springs , West Virginia , is really the pièce de résistance . This is where we walked into a community and there was a perfect combination : them wanting resources and us wanting to deploy resources and push the envelope one more time . We ’ re putting together a showcase for the rest of the world , and we ' re calling it the first fully accessible hotel in the world . We also