2025 Helen Keller Achievement Awards

On March 17, 2025, AFB held a special live-stream event that shared with the world a never-before-heard recording of Helen Keller and relics held inside a Time Capsule, which was placed into the cornerstone of AFB’s new headquarters on 15 East 16th Street, New York City, on December 5, 1934.

AFB is excited to launch our AFB Scholars Program! Through the generosity of the Lulu J. Alonso Scholarship Fund, this program invests in today’s scholars to transform tomorrow’s world. Applications are now closed — we thank all who applied this year!

AFB’s Public Policy & Research Institute presents topical findings from AFB research in conversation with scholars, advocates, and practitioners, offering an action-oriented perspective on how to effectively use research to expand access and opportunity.

Following the Barriers to Digital Inclusion Survey released in April 2023, AFB conducted a second study, Barriers to Digital Inclusion 2, to take a more in-depth look at blind and low-vision people’s digital experiences in real time.

In response to AFB’s study last year on the challenges job seekers who are blind or have low vision face toward closing the opportunity gap, our Public Policy & Research Institute has prepared a helpful toolkit for HR professionals and hiring managers.

AFB’s Public Policy and Research Institute (PPRI) has prepared a wide range of research summaries and fact sheets intended to convey AFB’s research to a broad audience. These helpful tools are intended to further knowledge on issues impacting people who are blind through spotlighting AFB’s extensive research over the years.

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