In 2015, the Heldrich Center was requested by the Kessler Foundation to begin performing regular evaluations of the foundation’s Community Employment Grant Program grantees, which are largely located in New Jersey. Similar to the center’s evaluations of the Kessler Foundation’s Signature Employment Grants, researchers used tested evaluation approaches to provide feedback to the Kessler Foundation on the effectiveness of the grant programs in meeting their stated goals and to provide feedback to grantees about the best ways to establish and manage their programs in order to maximize the probability that people with disabilities will be employed upon program completion. The Heldrich Center evaluated seven grantees.