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This incubator targets entrepreneurs with disabilities

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Helping entrepreneurs build businesses is the forte oftraditional incubators. But Community Options Inc. has created an incubator tofoster for people with disabilities as well asthose with businesses tailored to help the disabled. The nonprofitadded the Community Options Network in 2001 to helpthese entrepreneurs with professional development and technologysolutions, just to name a few services. The services are providedfrom its Princeton, , locale, but virtual services areavailable to entrepreneurs nationwide. Says founder and CEO RobertP. Stack, 50, "If [the idea] is something that can bedone, we'll help them do it."

That help has allowed Brad Goldman of Morristown, New Jersey, tobuild his greeting card business, BRADesigns. Goldman, 33, who isquadriplegic, turned to the incubator network to help him with thebusiness plan and his card designs, which he creates witha special head pointer system and his PC. He sells his cardsonline, at events and expos, and via direct brochures. "TheCommunity Options [program really] helps people withdisabilities," says Goldman.

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