In their Sao Paulo factory, Boehringer employs thirteen employees who are deaf. To ensure their full inclusion, human resources conducts sensitivity meetings with managers and provides a LIBRAS training course to help all employees learn Brazilian Sign Language. The company also emphasizes that all collective actions, such as meetings and [...]
Bank of America’s Disability Advocacy Network in India created a program called Train & Hire, which provides training and skills-building to individuals with disabilities for roles in the financial services industry. Since launching in 2014, Bank of America has hired more than 50% of the individuals who completed the program [...]
Accenture has developed a Global Enablement Scorecard to analyze disability inclusion maturity in over 60 countries in which they operate. The scorecard tracks progress in 5 areas; Leadership, Talent, Culture, Accessibility, and Ecosystem. Accenture uses the information to develop country specific strategies to increase disability inclusion and overall representation of [...]
Accenture launched “Abilities Unleashed,” a global leadership development program for people with disabilities and advocates. The program, the first of its kind and potentially one of few such industry initiatives, makes an effort to bring its people with different kinds of disabilities into a regional program focused on enabling their [...]
Building off of previous supplier diversity and inclusion commitments, Novant Health and Mechanica and Farmers Bank created the Diverse Supplier Reinvestment Program. The program is committed to growing the capacity of businesses owned by women, ethnic minorities, veterans, LGBTQ individuals and people with disabilities by guaranteeing loans. The maximum [...]
Supplier Diversity has recently partnered with the Persons with Abilities BRG to provide vendor support and creativity in areas of opportunity. In 2019, at the Novant Health Leaders Retreat, closed captioning was provided by a firm that BRG leaders attended. This option for those who are hard of hearing [...]
Universal Design is an initiative through the Global Workforce Enterprise Services that is creating universally accessible workplaces on Merck sites. Universal Design is ensuring that all Merck employees can comfortably and safely access their workplace; the project has been a collaborative process with a Disability-Owned Business Enterprise (DOBE). [...]
Highmark Health's special program with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania supports Bender Consulting, a disability owned business enterprise that is part of the Highmark Health mentor protege program. The program helps in finding suitable contracts with the Commonwealth for its candidates with disabilities. In addition, Highmark Health's CEO committed to [...]
Fidelity's Procurement Analytics team created a self-serve, online portal for sourcing managers to find disability-owned suppliers who may meet the needs of their upcoming sourcing events. Further, each month the Supplier Diversity dashboard gets updated with all the Disability:IN certified vendors. When a user searches by category or keywords, [...]
EY is committed to helping strengthen the pipeline of disability-owned business enterprises and invests in several ways. EY was among the first founding members of the Disability: IN disability-owned business certification (DOBE) program and has had active members on the National Certification Committee for many years reviewing certification files, [...]