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National Braille Press is a Boston-based nonprofit braille printing and publishing house founded in 1927. Last year NBP pressed 15 million braille pages using special translation software and computer-driven equipment. Tour our plant.
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The guiding purposes of National Braille Press are to promote the
literacy of blind children through braille, and to provide access
to information that empowers blind people to actively engage in
work, family, and community affairs.
- Braille is the only true means of literacy for a person
without sight;
- Blind people want to pay the same for their braille
publications as
sighted people pay for theirs;
- Schoolchildren should have their textbooks and tests at the
same time
their sighted peers do;
- Our purpose as a nonprofit is to raise sufficient funds to
support
these services;
- Our hiring and supervisory practices should encourage
competitive
employment for qualified disabled individuals.
One third of our staff has a
disability, predominantly blindness, filling positions at all levels (including
our retired president).
A fundamental belief at NBP is that blind people can, want to, and should work for
companies that value talent and hard work above all.
