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According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, 80.7 percent of persons with a disability are unemployed. The Lily Pad Cafe will run as a not-for-profit restaurant and is focused on employing and training individuals with disabilities to give them the work skills and confidence necessary to obtain employment with other businesses. The cafe also will work with local restaurants and retail establishments so cafe employees can seamlessly transition to employment opportunities with these partners.

To cover the costs of the building, renovation and initial start-up, The Lily Pad Cafe Building Campaign kicked off with a goal of raising $500,000. That goal was amazingly hit and we have now focused fundraising efforts to cover operating costs. Click here to see our current progress!

Supporters can sponsor a brick or a table, and corporations also can purchase naming rights for the Lily Pad fountain, the cafe patio, and each dining room space by filling out the form here for more information.

The top-three fundraising families will have naming rights to one of the cafe menu items.

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Like a frog using a lily pad, we want to be a stepping stone to their next path. The Lily Pad will be a cafe that will employ and train young adults with Intellectual and/or Developmental Disabilities (ID/DD) so that they can learn significant life/career skills, in every aspect of food and hospitality service and also gain employment throughout the community. This training will encompass social and life skills, providing experience that will be challenging to gain in any other environment. Our goal is to equip these men and women with the tools necessary to obtain employment by local businesses so that they can not only achieve their full potential, but display to the community their abundant talents and abilities.