Sourcing & Onboarding IDD Talent
People with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) represent an 85% unemployment rate in the U. S.—a significant untapped talent pool that offers substantial potential to employers across all industries. According to the Institute for Corporate Productivity’s (i4cp) groundbreaking study, Employing People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, over a third of employers in high-performance organizations—those companies that excel in market share, revenue growth, profitability, and customer satisfaction over a five-year period—that employee people with IDD found them to be good talent matches for open positions.
How Universities, Nonprofits and Employers Are Making “Ability” Count In the Workplace
For most employers, diversity and disability hiring are often thought of as separate initiatives, but despite the differences of disclosure and accommodation, disability simply is diversity. In fact, people with disabilities make up the largest minority group in the...
Government Contracting
2021 – 2024
2021 – 2024