This Memorial Day, Kessler Foundation is highlighting how funding and studies in veterans research help improve their quality of life and create employment opportunities.
GI Go Fund
Kessler Foundation funds organizations that help veterans find employment. One organization in particular is GI Go
Improving the lives of people with spinal cord injuries depends on the efforts of a team of professionals who have dedicated their careers to care and research.
Meet Nathan Hogaboom, PhD, post-doctoral fellow in Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) Research and Outcomes & Assessment Research.
An Interview with John O’Neill, PhD, CRC, Employment Researcher
Dr. O’Neill is director, Employment and Disability Research at Kessler Foundation; research professor, Department of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Rutgers, New Jersey Medical school; senior research scientist, John J. Heldrich
Earlier this month Elaine Katz, senior vice president of grants and communications at Kessler Foundation, spoke at the My Talent Pipeline Launch Symposium. She shared the results of the latest national trends in disability employment labor report, also known as nTIDE. Kessler Foundation collaborates
Elaine Katz, MS, CCC-SP, Senior Vice President for Grants and Communications at Kessler Foundation, talks on AXSChat about the rise and influence of collaborative funding to enhance inclusion of people with disabilities (PwD) in the workplace in the United States and internationally. Katz goes
March 3, 2017. Two disabling neurological conditions share March Awareness Month – multiple sclerosis (MS) and traumatic brain injury (TBI). These conditions share other things as well, including causing an array of cognitive, emotional and physical disabilities, and presenting barriers to finding
The January 13, 2016 edition of the Star-Ledger features an op-ed by Rodger DeRose, president & CEO of Kessler Foundation. In "Connecting Employers with Jobseekers with Disabilities", DeRose addresses the obstacles faced by jobseekers with disabilities, the challenges faced by employers with job
Although employers of all types have benefited from hiring people with disabilities, unemployment rates remain high. Closer collaboration between employers and disability employment initiatives is key
This comprehensive brief illustrates key research findings, outlines existing strategies and
Payne understood that jobs are key
This week, we reflect on the many years of public service by Donald Payne (D-10 NJ), the first African American to represent New Jersey in the US House of Representatives. Of his many and varied contributions, one in particular resonates with the Foundation's
Madison, Wis. -- Over 54 million people and 19 percent of the United States population - or one out of every five Americans - have some type of disability and a large number of which are “unbanked” or “underbanked.” Credit