SourceAmerica

In addition to companies such as Starbucks, Inter-American Development Bank, PetSafe and Grainger, small entrepreneurial ventures such as Blush & Whimsy[3] and Luna Innovations Incorporated have found business solutions with nonprofit agencies in the network.

Headquartered in Vienna, Virginia, SourceAmerica provides its nonprofit agency network with business development, contract management, legislative and regulatory assistance, communications and public relations materials, information technology support, engineering and technical assistance, and extensive professional training needed for successful nonprofit management.

Every year, the SourceAmerica Design Challenge[4] teams high school and college students with people with disabilities to invent engineering solutions.

Students meet with a nonprofit agency or business that employs people with disabilities to create processes, devices or programs that improve the workplace.

Each of the six founding organizations has a permanent seat on the board: Goodwill Industries International, National Easter Seals Society, United Cerebral Palsy, The Arc, Network of Jewish Human Service Agencies[5] and ACCSES.

[6] On September 4, 2015, federal agents raided the corporate offices of Goodwill Industries in Memphis, Tennessee, in an apparent escalation of the investigation of the AbilityOne Program.

The final language, Section 898 of S. 2943, signed into law on December 23, 2016, created the Panel on Department of Defense and AbilityOne Contracting Oversight, Accountability, and Integrity.