In 2014, OAR’s Board of Directors and Scientific Council decided to make every effort to schedule their annual meetings in conjunction with autism conferences around the country whenever possible. This led to meetings in Boston and sponsorship of the Current Trends in Autism conference in November 2015, followed by meeting in Columbus, Ohio, and a…
August was a fast-paced and exciting month as OAR supporters from all over the country and overseas rallied to support OAR and its Hire Autism program in The Encore Prize: Generation to Generation Challenge, a national competition that will award $50,000 each to two winners with innovative ideas for engaging people over 50 in improving…
The Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), the federal government’s annual charitable campaign and one of OAR’s greatest sources of support, kicks off this month. This year’s program may be getting off to a later start, but donors have until January 12, 2018 to make their pledges. “It is to military service members and federal employees what…
OAR invites graduate students to submit research proposals for its annual Graduate Research Grant Program. Since the program was established in 2004, OAR has awarded over $222,800 in grants to fund 127 graduate research studies. Last year, OAR made grants to 11 students with grant awards totaling $20,619. OAR hopes to build on this success in 2018,…
On September 18, OAR will invite graduate students to submit research proposals for its annual Graduate Research Grant Program. Since the program was established in 2004, OAR has awarded over $222,800 in grants to fund 127 graduate research studies. Last year, OAR made grants to 11 students with grant awards totaling $20,619. OAR hopes to build on…
OAR takes great pleasure in announcing the recipients of the Lisa Higgins Hussman Scholarship and Schwallie Family Scholarship for 2017. The two scholarships attracted over 400 applicants and the 39 awards total $120,000. Through this program, OAR has now provided scholarships to 269 students with autism diagnoses – a total financial contribution of $818,500 since…
Marie Kish and Maria Veve recently joined the OAR Board of Directors, Kish in January and Veve in March. They are both parents of children with autism and both eager to be involved with an organization that makes positive contributions to the autism community. Kish, who lives in Tysons Corner, Va., is “particularly interested in…
OAR welcomed its first Hire Autism intern, Nora Leibold, in mid-June for an internship that will last until the end of August. She will be updating the Hire Autism blog, developing new contacts for the Hire Autism portal, reaching out to applicants who have created Hire Autism accounts, and working on procedural guides. Leibold will be…
This year’s fourth annual Southpoint Capital Advisors Charitable Golf Outing took place on Monday, July 17, and raised $200,000 for OAR and additional funds for another nonprofit organization. The golf outing has raised a total of $612,000 for OAR in the three years that OAR has been a beneficiary. OAR will use the proceeds from…
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Edward H. Schwallie, one of OAR’s founders, who passed away after a long illness on Father’s Day surrounded by his wife, Marge, and members of his family. He was 84 years old. Schwallie was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, graduated from John Carroll…
