See artist’s renderings and design blueprint June 16, 2017, Brooklyn, NY ~ Alphapointe, the non-profit organization dedicated to helping individuals who are legally blind secure gainful employment, announced today that it has acquired a 138,000-square-foot building at 87-46 123rd Street in the Richmond Hill section of Queens, which is to become the official home of…
Year: 2017
Legally Blind Queens Village Resident Receives I Make It Happen Award
Originally published in the Queens Gazette on May 17, 2017 Yuet Yuen Chao (aka “Charlie”) is legally blind. Born in China in 1933, he spent his early adulthood in Cuba and then lived briefly in Miami in 1961 before relocating to California and then settling in New York. While he was in Miami, he suffered…
New Addition to the Alphapointe Board
Alphapointe is pleased to announce the addition of Janice Thompson as a new member of the Board of Directors. Janice as a Strategic Growth Consultant, assists the leadership teams of Fortune 500 and middle market companies in developing and executing enterprise growth strategies. Her career spans the gamut from investment banking at Goldman Sachs to…
Borough Park business made up of legally blind employees
BROOKLYN – More than half of the employees at a manufacturer in Borough Park are legally blind. (more…)
Local Man Helps People Who Are Blind
Kevin Athey has worked at Alphapointe since 2014. He is a resource planning analyst and supervises and trains others in the call center. (more…)
New Contract Means New Jobs
Alphapointe will manufacture plastic prescription bottles for Express Scripts and military families. The signing of this new contract will expand services and provide resources to hire employees. (more…)
Achievement Award
South Arkansas man who’s blind earns achievement award – Robert D. Brown, formerly of Malvern, has been named the area’s outstanding Consumer of the Year by the Department of Human Services Division of Services for the Blind (DSB). (more…)