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Mar 26, 2005

"I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker." --Helen Keller

Pride

In 1966, a group of parents who had children with development disabilities got together in the basement of St. Luke's Episcopal Church in Auburn, Calif., to try to figure out a way to help their kids find employment and full integration into their communities. From that humble beginning sprang PRIDE Industries, the nation's largest employer of people with disabilities, with 4,300 workers in 11 states, including 2,700 with disabilities.