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The AWS Foundation, founded in 1989, is a Northeast Indiana-focused grant-making nonprofit organization. Its mission is to financially assist organizations working with children and adults with intellectual, developmental, and physical disabilities to live as independently as they want, be included in the community, and function at their highest potential. It has grown from one employee […]

As the saying goes, you only get one chance to make a first impression. And when it comes to applying for a job, that first impression is your résumé. That isn’t to say that you won’t have one or more opportunities to make a great impression as you move through the interview process, but having […]

In 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a novel device from Samsara Vision called the Implantable Miniature Telescope (IMT). The device magnifies what a person with late-stage, age-related macular degeneration (AMD) sees in “straight-ahead” central vision. Specifically, the IMT projects an image onto undamaged retina sections, enabling a person to recognize and […]

Russell Shaffer is the first to admit that his career has taken a lot of twists and turns, many of them unexpected and unconventional. But it certainly led him in the right direction because today he’s Executive Vice President of Strategy & Programs at Disability:IN. The organization is “the leading nonprofit resource for business disability […]