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As the social programmes of the postwar welfare state have been dramatically cut back and transformed, many have looked to the voluntary nonprofit sector as the 'beacon of hope' in terms of delivering support and services to citizens in need of assistance. But at the same time as these organizations have been under mounting pressure to deliver support and services, they have also been subject to forces of change which limit their capacities to play this vital social role. In this paper, we examine how disability organizations in two Canadian provinces have been faring in increasingly harsh neoliberal environments. We look, in particular, at the ways in which these organizations are struggling to negotiate the pressures of diminished and inadequate funding, rising demand for their services, and changing regulatory relations with the state. Drawing on mail surveys of sixty-two disability organizations in the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia, we discuss the impacts that organizational survival strategies are having on clients, staff, volunteers and volunteerism, and on the operation and structure of such organizations. We show how disability organizations are experiencing significant pressures to change how they deliver services and supports to disabled people in need. These include pressures to diminish levels of service provision to clients, particularly those in greatest need, to reduce staffing levels and institute survival strategies that negatively impact working conditions, to rely even more heavily upon volunteer labour, and to modify their operations and organizations in a struggle to cope with harsh neoliberal conditions.

1. Introduction : towards enabling geographies / Vera Chouinard, Edward Hall and Robert Wilton -- 2. Disability, embodiment and the meaning of the home / Rob Imrie -- 3. Women's changing experiences of the home and life inside it after becoming chronically ill / Valorie A. Crooks -- 4. Enabling cultures of dis/order online / Joyce Davidson and Hester Parr -- 5. 'It's my umbilical cord to the world. the internet' : D/deaf and hard of hearing people's information and communication practices / Tracey Skelton and Gill Valentine -- 6. The geographies of interdependence in the lives of people with intellectual disabilities / Andrew Power -- 7. 563 miles : a matter of distance in long-distance caring by siblings of siblings with intellectual and developmental disabilities / Deborah Metzel -- 8. Young people with socio-emotional differences : theorising disability and destabilising socio-emotional norms / Louise Holt -- 9. Evaluating workfare : disability, policy and the role of geography / Claire Edwards -- 10. Placing little people : dwarfism and the geographies of everyday life / Robert J. Kruse, II -- 11. The disabling affects of fat : the emotional and material geographies of some women who live in Hamilton, New Zealand / Robyn Longhurst -- 12. Embodied ageing in place : what does it mean to grow old? / Janine L. Wiles and Ruth E.S. Allen -- 13. Biometric geographies, mbility and disability : biologies of culpability and the biologised spaces of (post)modernity / Joanne Maddern and Emma Stewart -- 14. Geographies of disability : reflections on new body knowledges / Isabel Dyck.