Driving Change
Careers
Closing the employment gap by innovating strategies to increase the hiring and advancement of people with disabilities at every career stage.
Work Must Work for Everyone
Working is a source of dignity, independence, and purpose, but for millions of Americans with disabilities, equitable access to employment remains out of reach.
Disabled workers face staggering disparities: they are three times more likely to be unemployed, work part time, and earn less. These inequities are even more pronounced at the intersections of race, gender, sexual orientation, and disability.
We are addressing this crisis from both sides: developing new strategies to encourage the hiring and advancement of talent with disabilities, and helping disabled jobseekers secure high-quality, meaningful careers. By building inclusive hiring pipelines, we’re advancing effective strategies that shape a workforce reflective of all talent.
What We’re Doing
- Building upon our knowledge base gained through Campus to Careers, today, we’re still connecting college students and recent grads with disabilities to hiring employers through guidance and coaching, career fairs, and targeted resume sharing.
- Developing dynamic training on inclusive hiring practices, disability awareness, accessible and equitable performance assessments, and building disability-friendly recruitment pipelines.
- Sharing learnings from past successes like Start on Success, a program connecting high schoolers with disabilities to internships that we developed in 1995 and is still operating today; Bridges to a Better Workforce, a demand-based model linking hiring employers to local job seekers with disabilities; and Wounded Warrior Careers, a partnership with the U.S. Department of Defense providing career support for veterans returning to civilian life with combat-related disabilities.
Featured Resources
A Roadmap for Employers to Successfully Recruit College Students with Disabilities
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Together, we can break down systemic barriers and open doors for millions of Americans with disabilities.