Back for another year of energetic gaming, this annual IFB Solutions event welcomed its largest crowd ever with nearly 400 people in attendance. The evening featured high-end prizes for bingo winners, hors d’oeuvres, cocktails and a silent auction with proceeds going toward IFB’s Community Low Vision Center.

Find photos from the 2019 Little Rock Bingo for Bags event, click here. 

ASHEVILLE, N.C. (WLOS) — It was a battle of the Christmas characters in Asheville on Saturday during the Santa’s Showdown race.

Read more about the race here.

Dawson Hart, a veteran who lost most of his eyesight while on duty in Iraq, is IFB Solutions’ honorary chairman of the inaugural Santa’s Showdown 5k run on Dec. 14 in Asheville. Hart is a long-time running enthusiast even after losing part of his leg a few years ago. He’ll run the race wearing a prosthetic that enables him to maintain a training regimen and races provide extra motivation.

Learn more about Dawson’s story here.

The nation’s largest employer of the blind hasn’t decided which employees will lose their jobs, but 47 people will go in the first round of cuts.

After a federal court ruling downgraded the preferential status of nonprofit employers of the blind and disabled, IFB Solutions lost its first contract with the Department of Veterans Affairs to a veteran-owned small business.

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IFB Solutions CEO David Horton doesn’t relish pitting the interests of his nonprofit organization that employs the blind and visually impaired against those of veteran-owned small businesses.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — IFB Solutions has filed for its case to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. This comes after the Department of Veteran Affairs ended its remaining two contracts that affects 90 additional jobs in the optical lab.

Those contracts are set to end September 30 and October 31. The first contract supporting 47 jobs transitioned to another company late last week following a court decision denying IFB’s request for a stay.

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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Over a hundred people who are blind or visually impaired are at risk of losing their job as the VA is ending contracts with IFB Solutions.

IFB lost one of three optical contracts with the VA, following a court decision denying a request to stay.

In a month the VA contract will expire and another 130 employees jobs are at risk.

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A local nonprofit that provides employment and training for people who are blind or visually impaired is fighting to keep jobs. IFB Solutions is set to lose over 100 positions after the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs announced it would end three optical contracts with the agency.

The company has made eyeglasses for the VA for the past two decades.

But a court ruling in 2018 sided with small veteran-owned businesses over AbilityOne nonprofits that employ those who are blind or have significant disabilities when it comes to VA contracts.

Read the whole story here.