(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…
Year: 2018
Announcing the NFL Network TV premiere
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…
Alphapointe NY puts down new roots in Queens
(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…
Blue KC Chiefs Kingdom Champion, Cameron Black
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…
He Operates Molding Machines. But He Can’t See Them.
(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…
ALPHA RACE AT KSSB
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…
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…