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Cause-related marketing analysis and plan development. Based on identification of your organization's key assets, Gray Consulting will design a plan to help you leverage those assets into real dollars for the organization. They will survey your market, analyze and qualify partner prospects, then work with you to develop hard-hitting, on-target marketing proposals.

Strategic and operational business planning. Know where you're going? Know how you're going to get there? A strong Strategic Plan is essential for your organization. Gray Consulting will work with your executive team, board, and/or volunteers to create a roadmap for success.

Return to work programs. Are you a disability insurance company that has claimants who may like to return to work but do not have the information and resources they need to make the transition? Gray Consulting brings people who have first hand experience with disabling conditions, knowledge of benefits programs, and the Ticket to Work Act together to help newly disabled people reestablish their lives so that return to work is a natural next step.

Sponsorship development and brokering. Do you have a disability-related event or program that you need a sponsor for? Or, does your company want to invest in disability-related sponsorships that will project your company favorably within the community, or will resonate with one of the largest markets in the United States? Gray Consulting will help you find the right partners and will help make sure that expectations are clearly defined.

Employment programs. Imagine having the combined populations of Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York ready to solve your staffing challenges by coming to work for your company. Now imagine that this population brings with it not only all its ability, but also higher retention rates, and therefore lower turnover and related training costs.

Sound like HR heaven? It's not. It's real. According to the National Organization on Disability/Harris survey, only one-third (32 percent) of working age Americans with disabilities are employed full- or part-time. That's a 68 percent unemployment rate among working age people with disabilities compared with about 4 percent nationally of all working age people. Further, of those working age people with disabilities not currently at work, a full 67 percent, or 16 million people, say they can work, and want to work.

Gray Consulting can help you tap into this labor pool and will work with your organization to make sure that you are prepared to accommodate them.

Meeting facilitation. Does your organization waste too much time in meetings where only the most loudly voiced opinions are the ones that stick? Gray Consulting can help you insure that your meeting time is productive and creative.

Accessibility studies. In the post Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 America, with the advances in assistive technology, one could make the case that many disabilities disappear when the environment is accessible. Of course, knocking down the walls and building ramps is the easy stuff compared to dealing with attitudinal inaccessibility, but Gray Consulting can help your organization on all fronts. Make sure people with disabilities can get into your stores and that your employees with disabilities can do their jobs in a welcoming environment.

Sports and recreation program development. Gray Consulting will use its proven effective business techniques and love of sports to help you set up inclusive sports programs. A key to success for many start-up programs is having a proper plan, volunteers, financing, and media attention. Gray Consulting has Paralympic Athletes in its network that have done it all and can put your program on the road to success.

Motivational speaking. Most people wonder how they would personally handle a difficult situation involving a disabling condition. The stories and perspectives of individuals who are successfully living with their disabilities are uplifting and motivating. Gray Consulting has a number of excellent presenters in its network that work with audiences of all sizes.

Research and presentation. Your Google search just returned over 29 million hits for "Disability Employment Programs" and 1.6 million for "Wheelchair Sports Programs." Let Gray Consulting use its experience and expertise to narrow the results to the most applicable for your need.