The National Organization on Disability (NOD) aims to increase employment opportunities for people with disabilities. NOD conducts research and demonstration projects working directly with employers. Through its Bridges to Business initiative, NOD helps connect employers, service providers, and agencies to build a more inclusive workforce. NOD conducted a study interviewing 40 organizations to identify themes in disability employment. The study found that employers want assistance from a broad organization to serve as an advisor connecting them to local service providers. NOD works to help employers and providers use consistent metrics to measure job performance, retention, and career progression of employees with disabilities.

1. National Organization on Disability: Employment Programs for People with Disabilities APSE Conference June 14th, 2011 Howard Green And Anthony Camuso Bridges to Business “It’s Ability, Not Disability, that counts”

3. Focus: Increase employment opportunity and economic self-sufficiency for the 33 million working-aged Americans with disabilities. Kessler/ NOD Survey on Employment: Only 21% of Americans with disabilities are employed, versus 59% of those without. 2

5. Public and private funding

6. Neutral convener, bipartisan

7. Proven strategies based on metrics and driven by outcomes

8. Subject matter expert, changing policy and practice Right: Alan Reich, NOD Founder Governor Tom Ridge, NOD Chair Carol Glazer, NOD President 3

9. NOD’s innovative approaches to disability employment are in five key areas 4

11. Demonstrations with Lowe’s, Sam’s Club, ADP, Aetna and Sodexo

13. Those that do – do not know where to find them

14. Employers find the public disability employment system confusing

15. Service providers do not speak the language of employers and use different success metricsFuture State Hiring people with disabilities is “business as usual” Current State Limited “demand side” focus and impact 5

16. NOD conducted a 3-month disability employment market study, interviewing almost 40 organizations (funded by the Coca-Cola & Milbank Foundations) *This group would also be considered partners 6

17. Interviews identified key themes in each phase of the employment statement 7

19. Employers and service providers need consistent and common metrics thatinclude job performance, retention and career and wage progression

20. Employers need help from subject matter expertswho understand service providers8

22. Private sector background – understand business needs and metrics

23. Background in policy development and the vocational rehabilitation system

24. Strong Corporate Relationships & Partners:

25. Work with some of the top Fortune 500 companies in the US

26. CEO Council also provides access to some of the top Fortune 1000 companies

27. Metrics driven and outcomes based: because we publish and share our program results we have an ongoing commitment to tracking and measuring – everything!

28. Survey Research:

29. Long-standing relationship with Harris Poll, providing the industry’s leading research on quality of life indicators and on employer views on hiring pwd

30. Partnering with Sirota Survey Intelligence to identify the issues/trends facing employees with disabilities.9

32. Training hiring managers and other relevant personnel

33. Setting goals, and establishing metrics

34. Identifying various disability employment service providers, local staffing agencies, and public employment systems

35. On-boarding assistance

37. Understand current disability employee population needs and concerns

40. Doing Business the Old Way!

41. Steps to Building a Relationship & Value

42. Consumer Expectations

43. Business Needs & Concerns

44. Issues for considerations

45. DOING BUSINESS A NEW WAY

46. Best Way To Approach

47. What Business Expects from a Service Provider?

48. Ways to Market Your Organization to Business

49. Foundational Principals identified by Business

50. NETWORKING

51. ANSWERING QUESTIONS FROM BUSINESS

52. Common Mistakes by Service Providers When Dealing with Business.

53. OTHER MISTAKES

54. PROMISING BUSINESS PRACTICE

55. PROMISING BUSINESS PRACTICE

56. PROMISING BUSINESS PRACTICE

57. Outcome Nuggets From theBridges to Business Model

58. Selected Partners, Funders, and CEO Council Members 30

59. Wounded Warrior Careers Program Funders JOYCE AND DONALD RUMSFELD FOUNDATION “ The National Organization on Disability’s Wounded Warrior Careers program has helped me to support myself and allowed me to open doors that, due to my injuries, once seemed closed to me.” U.S. Army Veteran, Specialist Scott Vycital Wounded Warrior Careers Demonstration 31 31