National Council on Independent Living

The National Council on Independent Living (NCIL) is an American nonprofit organization focused on disability rights advocacy.

NCIL works with the non-partisan VoteRiders[1] organization to spread state-specific information on voter ID requirements.

[2] The first independent living program was founded by disability rights activist Ed Roberts as a college student in Berkeley, California.

NCIL hosts an annual conference in Washington, D.C. that includes a rally and march.

[6] NCIL also collaborated with a health insurance corporation, Centene, on a project called the Provider Accessibility Initiative to improve health care for people with disabilities by increasing the number of medical care providers whose offices and services meet accessibility standards.