Jordan Allison, who has autism, works as a swatch and button specialist in the special order department at Hart Schaffner Marx in Des Plaines, Ill. Federal officials are working to encourage more employers to develop pipelines to increase employment of those with disabilities. (Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

The federal Administration for Community Living is holding a competition for businesses to create non-traditional methods of recruiting, training and retaining employees with disabilities, especially intellectual and developmental disabilities, for competitive, integrated employment. Businesses must include people with disabilities in all phases of the planning and implementation process and stand to win as much as $100,000.