Advocacy Network on Disabilities

04/06/2026

🎉 Tickets for Breakfast for Champions 2026 are now on sale!

Join us for a meaningful morning celebrating the accomplishments of individuals with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities.

Sponsorship opportunities are still available. To learn more, please email Tamara Hervera, Director of Outreach, at thervera@advocacynetwork.org.

Purchase tickets here:
https://advocacynetwork.networkforgood.com/events/99098-2026-breakfast-for-champions

04/03/2026

With Historic Hampton House – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! 🎉

04/03/2026

With United Way Miami – I just got recognized as one of their top fans! Grateful for their partnership

04/02/2026

Today is Autism Acceptance Day — a reminder that awareness is not enough.

Acceptance means listening to Autistic voices, respecting different ways of thinking and communicating, and creating communities where people are truly included and supported. Autism Acceptance Month is centered on moving beyond awareness toward meaningful acceptance, inclusion, and support. 

At the Advocacy Network on Disabilities, we believe every person deserves dignity, access, and belonging. Tomorrow and every day, we stand for a world where Autistic individuals are not just recognized, but fully accepted, valued, and empowered.

Working for a world where everyone belongs.


Way Miami Children's Trust

03/26/2026

Purple Day reminds us that epilepsy awareness is about more than a color — it’s about understanding, inclusion, and support. 💜

Today, on Epilepsy Awareness Day, we stand with individuals with epilepsy, their families, caregivers, and advocates. We honor the strength, resilience, and full humanity of people living with epilepsy, while continuing to push for greater awareness, accessibility, and acceptance in every part of our communities.

Everyone deserves to be safe, supported, and included.

Let’s keep building a world where everyone belongs.


The Children's Trust United Way Miami

03/22/2026

Today we had our Spring Day, when caregivers get to relax while our team helps children with and without disabilities play together. We couldn’t do it without our partners The Children's Trust and Children's Services Council of Broward County

03/21/2026

Proud of our CEO

Ire Diaz leads with a simple but powerful vision: a world where everyone belongs. As CEO of the Advocacy Network on Disabilities , she champions inclusion, services, and systems-level change for individuals with intellectual, developmental, and other disabilities—especially at a time when hard-won progress is being challenged at both the state and federal levels.

For Ire, joining the Nonprofit Executive Alliance meant stepping into a community of leaders committed to moving Miami-Dade forward together.

“We are stronger together,” she shares. “NEA gives me a deep sense of connection with other CEOs—people I can exchange ideas with and receive meaningful feedback from. Some challenges are unique to leadership, and having a space for collaboration and support is essential.”

Her advice to fellow nonprofit leaders?
“Be open and be present.” Or, in the words of Angela Davis: “You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world, and you have to do it all the time.”

Ire wholeheartedly recommends the NEA to any CEO looking for community, shared wisdom, and a trusted space where leadership can flourish. We’re grateful to have her voice, her experience, and her advocacy shaping our network.

Learn more and join the NEA! https://philanthropymiami.org/programs/philanthropymiami-partnership-with-the-nonprofit-executive-alliance/

03/20/2026

Big shout out to my new rising fans!

Elcana Jean-pierre

03/20/2026