(Originally published by Carlotta Mohamed on Thursday, December 27, 2018 on QNS.com) Alphapointe — with 100+ blind and visually impaired employees– focuses on hiring of the disabled providing training services, employment opportunities, and placing clients in the community for jobs. It does light and industrial manufacturing. The company occupies a 100-year-old building that was formerly an archive site for…
NFL Network 360 TV program will feature Alphapointe and Cameron Black, the Blind Quarterback, airing on December 25, 2018 at 7pmCT/8pmET on the NFL Network. It will re-air that night at 10pmCT/11pmET and Saturday, December 29. Alphapointe associates like Cameron Black, Tiffany Eddins, Maurice Atkins, Cheryl Rayburn and more will be featured. You don’t want…
(Originally published in This is Queensborough Business News from the Queens Chamber of Commerce on November 14, 2018) BY ANTHONY LUISI It was a massive and ambitious goal: uprooting a complex operation, relocating gargantuan machines, restoring a severely dilapidated property, and acclimating a workforce largely comprised of legally blind employees to new surroundings. Success would…
Originally published here by the Kansas City Chiefs. Sunday, Oct 21, 2018 07:45 PM For the Chiefs October 21, 2018, game against the Cincinnati Bengals, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC) and the Chiefs selected Cameron Black, a project lead at Alphapointe and author of “The Blind Quarterback” blog, as the…
(Originally published in the New York Times by Patricia R. Olsen on 9/28/2018) Jay Browder, 43, is a machine operator at Alphapointe in Kansas City, Mo. When did you become blind? I lost my sight at 19 when I got shot in the face in a gun accident. I had left high school early to go…
by Helen Hahn, Braille and Academics Instructor On Friday morning, September 21, several clients and staff from Alphapointe, loaded the van and car to travel to the Kansas State School for the Blind, (KSSB) where we joined in the fun and festivities for their Track Walk. The event, sponsored by the KC Blind All-Stars, was organized…
(Originally published in the Times Ledger newspaper here on August 19,2018) By Naeisha Rose Alphapointe, one of the largest employers of the legally blind, is less than one month away from completing a move of its headquarters to Richmond Hill from Brooklyn. The new home of the facility is at 87-46 123 St. and 50…
(Originally published on News 12 Brooklyn here) Rent forces nonprofit to move jobs for the blind, visually impaired Posted: Aug 20, 2018 5:06 PM CDT Updated: Aug 20, 2018 9:26 PM CDT BROOKLYN – Rising rent is forcing the nonprofit Alphapointe to move its manufacturing jobs for the legally blind or visually impaired. Alphapointe will move its jobs…
(Originally published on August 16, 2018 in the Kansas City Star) BY AARON RANDLE [email protected] August 16, 2018 05:30 AM When Kirby Hough meets a man for a first date, she deceives him until she believes he is worthy of the truth. He will walk into the bar or restaurant and find Hough already there,…
Joseph F. Danowsky is a Managing Director/Private Client Advisor at U.S. Trust. Previously, he was a Managing Director and Head of the Strategic Solutions Group for Barclays Wealth Americas. He began his Wall Street career in the legal department of Bear Stearns, later becoming a Senior Managing Director in the firm’s Wealth Management/Advisory Services Group. …