At CANDOR, our work is grounded in two intertwined focuses: advancing economic justice and amplifying disability justice. We know that Disabled people have always been pushed to the margins of capitalism–devalued when we can’t meet productivity standards and erased when our ways of surviving don’t fit profit-driven systems.

 

For us, economic justice means rejecting those models and creating structures that honor fluctuating capacity, collective care, and access needs. Every program we run is shaped by the needs and desires of our community, not by medical or charity frameworks.

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This includes building food and environmental justice initiatives that root Disabled livelihoods in growing, sharing, and sustaining community-based food systems that challenge chronic scarcity. Alongside this, we amplify Disabled voices and leadership through arts, advocacy, education, and organizing–insisting that Disabled people define the terms of our survival and liberation.

 

Together, these focuses allow us to resist ableism, capitalism, and ecological exploitation in practice, while building living examples of what sustainable, community-led futures can look like.

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