The Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind has helped tens of thousands of them get skilled jobs. The U.S. unemployment rate remains at near-record low levels.
Bosses everywhere complain that good help is harder to find than ever.
Perhaps CEOs at companies looking for competent workers with technical skills should speak with Bruce Heldebrandt. The training taught me to navigate around Windows and the Internet. The organization's assistive technology specialists have trained thousands of people in Seattle, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Denver, Dallas, Kansas City, Chicago, St. Louis, Detroit, Cleveland, Atlanta, Jacksonville, New York City, Boston, and others. In the D.C. area alone, the CLB serves 20,000 people, according to Dale Otto, CLB's blind president. The CLB is one of many Lighthouses for the Blind around the country with similar missions of enhancing the lives of the blind and visually impaired.