Shriver Group Consulting
Create real jobs for people with IDD.
Have an idea for a business or employment program for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD)? We help you design it, launch it, and build the partnerships and support that make it last.
Practical guidance from the team behind Rise Up Cafe and Inclusion Revolution.
Start where you are
What are you trying to build?
You may have a concept on a napkin or a program that is already running. Shriver Group Consulting meets you there.
Start an inclusive business
Build a cafe, shop, studio, or another venture with meaningful paid roles for people with IDD.
Explore business developmentBuild an employment program
Create the system to find employer partners, prepare participants, place people in jobs, and support them at work.
Explore program developmentStrengthen inclusive hiring
Help your organization identify useful roles, prepare managers, and support employees with IDD on the job.
Explore employer supportExperience you can build on
We've built it. We know what it takes.
At Rise Up Cafe, adults with IDD earned wages, built skills, and showed Sarasota what they could do. We also learned a hard lesson: training people for work is only part of the answer. Communities need employers ready to hire them and a reliable way to support each match.
That lesson shaped Inclusion Revolution's Integrated Jobs Program. Today, Shriver Group Consulting brings both sides of that experience to people building businesses and employment programs in their own communities.
Explore Shriver Group ConsultingRise Up Cafe figures cover its operating years, 2020-2024. Inclusion Revolution figures were reported in 2026. These describe separate programs and are not a combined total.
Shriver Group Consulting
Advice for the decisions that make it work.
We help families, nonprofits, schools, community groups, and businesses turn a promising idea into a practical operating model.
Inclusive business development
For new ventures and existing businessesFrom a cafe or retail shop to a different local venture, we help you develop a business that offers useful work and has a plan to sustain it.
- Shape the concept, roles, workflow, and operating plan.
- Explore for-profit and nonprofit-supported structures with your legal and financial advisers.
- Plan staffing, training, partnerships, funding, and launch.
Integrated employment program development
For nonprofits, schools, agencies, and communitiesBuild a program that connects people with IDD to paid jobs in existing workplaces, then supports both the employee and employer.
- Develop employer partnerships and identify real openings.
- Prepare participants, design job tasks, and train job coaches.
- Plan placement, onboarding, follow-up, and a sustainable funding approach.
Employer support
For businesses ready to create opportunityWe help employers find practical ways to welcome people with IDD into their teams, with a focus on real responsibilities and support that fits the workplace.
- Identify roles and break work into trainable tasks.
- Prepare managers and coworkers for successful onboarding.
- Build a plan for coaching, communication, and growth.
How we work together
A clear path from idea to action.
Every project is different. We start by understanding your community and resources, then shape the right scope of support.
Understand the opportunity
We listen to your goals, assess what you have, and identify the questions your plan needs to answer.
Build a workable plan
We help define the model, roles, partners, budget, and steps toward launch or improvement.
Put it into practice
Depending on your needs, we support training, employer outreach, operations, and the adjustments that come with real work.
The work behind the advice
Built in Sarasota. Useful wherever you are.
Our guidance comes from operating an inclusive business and building an employment program that works with local employers.
Inclusive enterprise
Rise Up Cafe
A coffee and ice cream shop where people with IDD did real work, served customers, and earned wages. It proved what an inclusive enterprise can offer and taught us what a strong business plan must address.
Explore Rise Up CafeIntegrated employment
Inclusion Revolution
Our nonprofit builds relationships with employers, prepares participants for work, and provides support on the job. The program applies what we learned at Rise Up to jobs across the community.
Explore Inclusion RevolutionThese organizations are examples of experience and impact. Shriver Group Consulting is offered through The Shriver Group.
Meet your guide
Beaver Shriver
Beaver founded Inclusion Revolution and helped build Rise Up Cafe. His consulting draws on the practical choices, partnerships, successes, and lessons that come from doing this work in the community.
More about Beaver and The Shriver GroupLet's get started
Your idea could create someone's next opportunity.
Tell us what you're thinking about building. We'll talk through where you are and what a sensible next step could look like.
No pressure. No obligation. Just a useful first conversation.