Diversity is a priority for Cincinnati companies.
Reflecting this, the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI) has just received the National Industries for the Blind (NIB) Retention/Growth/Upward Mobility Award, worth $500,000.
The CABVI won this award for its efforts to employ over 60 blind or visually impaired people in its Industries Program, the largest supplier of heavy duty pressure sensitive tapes for the US Military.
That's not all. In a larger effort, the CABVI's Base Supply Center Office Runway at Wright Patterson Air Force Base over 800 products are manufactured and sold by the joint efforts of more than 70 blindness agencies.
"This Award is really a reflection of the great employees we have working for us," says the director of CABVI's Industries Program Fred Newman. "They are a skilled and dedicated team."
CABVI is providing a very valuable service for the blind, a group in which 7 out of 10 remain unemployed.
CABVI and other NIB associated agencies employ over 5,900 blind and visually impaired people across the nation through the AbilityOne Program.
"At NIB, we are pleased to reward our agencies for their efforts to retain and grow employment and create upward mobility options for people who are blind," says President and CEO of NIB Kevin Lynch. "These awards are evidence of their hard work to enable more people who are blind to achieve socioeconomic independence and equality. That is a shared mission that is vitally important to us all."
The CABVI provides counseling, rehabilitation, information and employment services to the blind in the greater Cincinnati region.
To learn more about its services, visit here.
Writer: Jonathan DeHart
Source: Lisa Desatnik, Cincinnati Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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