Empowering people with vision loss to achieve their goals and aspirations.
Upcoming Events:
Boots & Pearls, Wine & Whiskey
Save the date for Friday, February 22, 2019!
Enjoy a night out at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in the historic Jazz District on 18th & Vine sampling various wines and whiskeys while listening to some jazz.
Vision for Life
We see a world where everyone with vision loss rises to their full potential. Through our foundation, manufacturing, retail and professional services, Alphapointe provides employment and services for people who are blind or visually impaired.
Our History
What began over a century ago in a woman’s living room is now one of the region’s largest resource for people who are blind. Today, Alphapointe is one of the largest employers of people with visual disabilities in the United States with over 400 employees.
Our History
With over 400 employees, we are the third largest employers of people who are blind in the United States. Our main operations are located in Kansas City, Missouri and Brooklyn, New York.
Latest Alphapointe News
Alphapointe’s move to Richmond Hill on track
(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
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Alphapointe will move its jobs to Queens
(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
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Dating with a disability: ‘I don’t feel like a burden … Why should I act like one?’
(Originally published on August 16, 2018 in the Kansas City Star) BY AARON RANDLE arandle@kcstar.com 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,
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Vision Services
We help people with vision loss maintain their independence.
Our Foundation
We empower people with vision loss to live, work and be independent.
Products and Services
We manufacture an array of high quality. state-of-the-art products.
Our Values
Accountability and Conduct
Excellence and Integrity
Service and Responsibility
Initiative and Teamwork
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