Employment Incentives Web Portal

Employment Incentives: Our Foundation’s most ambitious project to date, Employment Incentives supports a website (www.employmentincentives.com) that serves as a unique portal for businesses that hire or retain employees with disabilities. During 2007, the site has had over 740,000 visitors. We currently receive more than 80,000 unique visitors per month. They come because we have organized Federal and State hiring incentives and programs in a business friendly, accessible manner. In addition to the Federal materials, the site currently has tax credit, capital equipment, training, and general funding information available for the following thirteen states:

• California
• Colorado
• Delaware
• Florida
• Massachusetts
• Nebraska
• New Jersey
• Ohio
• Oregon
• Pennsylvania
• Rhode Island
• Tennessee
• Texas

American businesses who have used our Employment Incentives web portal during the year 2007, reported that they secured over $470,000 in various Federal and State tax credits, deductions, and training offsets during the past year. This use of the intended Financial Incentives for hiring is one way that we are ‘driving up’ the numbers of Americans with disabilities who get hired. GAO Report, GAO-03-39 released in December 2002 On Business Tax Incentives found that a very small proportion of corporate and individual taxpayers with a business affiliation use the available tax credits that are available to encourage the hiring, retention and accommodation of workers with disabilities. Foundation Chair, Janet Fiore participated in the GAO's study on this issue, and was inspired to action in the form of this popular web portal.

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITY! : Your tax deductible donation of $2500 will allow us to add and maintain information for another state. Sponsor a state today. Drive up the rate of employment for Americans with Disabilities!