Support Autistic Adults This Giving Season

It’s been a year of transformation at Aspiritech.

In 2024, our new sales and marketing team has striven in tandem with our operations team to double our client list, exceed our growth goals for this year (ahead of schedule!), and—best of all—create more work opportunities for more autistic adults.

Aspiritech is working hard to lay the groundwork to expand our business lines in 2025, giving our team members the chance to leverage their myriad talents beyond their proven skills in quality assurance testing and data management. Additionally, the partnerships we’ve forged are essential steps in collectively supporting the neurodiversity movement on both local and worldwide scales.

But with an estimated 85% of autistic adults unemployed or underemployed, we’ve still got a long way to go in our efforts to make neuroinclusivity a common component of more companies’ cultures.

What Our Donors Support

While our growing team of autistic tech professionals earns every penny of their paychecks, the essential programs and accommodations that Aspiritech provides are reliant upon donors like you. These include:

• Stepping Up & Out (SUO), which fosters fun and friendship for Aspiritech employees and community members through online meetups and in-person excursions in the Chicago area. Our donors have helped us provide approximately 34 special events for SUO participants and 188 weekly events for current and former Aspiritech employees.

   

• The ACE Fund, a financial grant that helps offset the costs of medical needs, vehicle repairs, and larger life changes our employees encounter. So far in 2024, our donors have helped us provide $10,000 in ACE Fund grants to individual team members.
• Aspiritech Academy, a cost-free training program that helps equip the next generation of neurodivergent tech professionals with quality assurance know-how and the soft skills necessary to navigate the job market. Thanks to our partners at Mitsubishi Electric America Foundation (MEAF) and Helping Adults with Autism Perform & Excel (HAAPE), as well as our donors, we were able to host three successful cohorts and train 26 students in 2024, and look forward to growing the program further next year.
• Sensory-friendly spaces in our Evanston headquarters, trained staff dedicated to ensuring employees’ success in the workplace, and employee resource groups that all help our team members work comfortably and confidently within a supportive company culture.

Make a Difference This Giving Tuesday

As we turn our focus toward more collaboration, community, and creativity at Aspiritech in 2025, we’re asking you, one of our vital supporters, to chip in to keep the momentum going. With your help, we can continue setting the gold standard of what autism acceptance and celebration should look like in the workplace and beyond.

Let’s see what your generous donation can help us achieve in the new year!