Watch the award presentation and Mayor Joines’ acceptance speech here.

The 2020 IFB Solutions employee award winners have been announced.

Employee Awards 2020 Release with Pics

SEE Charlotte is partnering with the YMCA at Lake Norman to provide the best summer camp experience possible for kids who are blind or visually impaired. Learn more about the fun our SEE campers are having here.

IFB Solutions is helping keep our veterans and those helping them on the front lines safe by making and donating face masks. Watch the video here.

IFB relies on Zoom and the platform’s accessibility features to keep our visually impaired and blind children and adults connected during the COVID-19 crisis. Learn more about how staying connected impacts our programs, employment opportunities, training, support groups, and more here.

How does someone who is blind navigate a COVD-19 world where touch is off limits and social distancing is required? Listen to one IFB employee’s take on being blind during a pandemic.

View the Spectrum News story here: https://spectrumlocalnews.com/nc/triad/news/2020/05/20/covid-19-impacting-the-blind#

Local nonprofit IFB Solutions, the largest employer of people who are blind or visually impaired in the country, has started production on 10,000 masks for the U.S. Air Force at its Winston-Salem facility. IFB, which already makes a variety of apparel products for the government, including apparel, mattresses and office supplies, quickly ramped up a mask production line and employee training. The following media outlets have more on the story.

WXII
https://www.wxii12.com/article/winston-salems-ifb-solutions-to-make-10k-face-masks-for-air-force/32369882

Triad Business Journal
https://www.bizjournals.com/triad/news/2020/05/04/triad-nonprofit-wins-air-force-mask-contract.html?iana=hpmvp_triad_news_headline

Winston-Salem Chronicle
https://wschronicle.com/2020/05/ifb-solutions-to-make-10000-masks-for-u-s-air-force/

WRAL-TV and WRAL TechWire
https://www.wraltechwire.com/2020/05/06/durhams-lci-delivering-up-to-576000-face-masks-to-the-us-air-force/

Carolina Health News (scroll down thru May 6 highlights to get to story)
https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2020/05/06/coronavirus-today-may-6/

Triangle Business Journal (subscriber-only access)
https://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2020/05/06/durham-nonprofit-will-supply-the-us-air-force-with.html

MSN.com
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/winston-salems-ifb-solutions-to-make-10k-face-masks-for-air-force/ar-BB13AY3B

News Break
https://www.newsbreak.com/north-carolina/durham/news/0OynA1O2/durhams-lci-delivering-up-to-576000-face-masks-to-the-us-air-force
https://www.newsbreak.com/north-carolina/winston-salem/news/0OxYJDZm/winston-salems-ifb-solutions-to-make-10k-face-masks-for-air-force

AirforceTechnology.com
https://www.airforce-technology.com/news/covid-19-ifb-solutions-masks-usaf/

American Security Today
https://americansecuritytoday.com/lci-non-profits-to-produce-ppe-equipment-for-u-s-air-force/

Thanks to a grant from the High Point Community Foundation, the IFB Solutions mobile clinic brings its resources, including eye exams, to families in High Point. IFB Solutions’ Community Low Vision Center helps students are visually impaired by provided resources like the mobile clinic and devices designed to help students with visual impairment. Students with low vision use these resources to learn how to read independently, complete homework assignments and develop their abilities and talents in the home environment.

Learn more about the impact our Community Low Vision Center has had on one family here.

IFB Solutions of Winston-Salem, the largest employer of people who are blind or visually impaired in the country, has move its Twenty200 Eyewear optical store to a higher-profile location.

The nonprofit this week opened its new store at 631 Coliseum Dr. NW in Winston-Salem. IFB previously operated an optical store on its North Point Drive campus.

Learn more about IFB Solutions Twenty200 Optical Shop here.

Kids who are blind from IFB Solutions brought some handmade blankets to the dogs at the Forsyth Humane Society. They’ve been making the blankets since October!