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Brother James Kearney Scholarship Program
Purpose of the Grant
To provide financial assistance to U.S. residents who are legally blind, financially needed, and studying at any of 12 partnering private colleges and universities located in New York State, Northeastern New Jersey, and Southwestern Connecticut (Phase 3)
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New York State, Other Tri-State Area (CT & NJ)Deafblind Citizens in Action
Purpose of the Grant
To support two successive six-person cadres of young adults who are deafblind in developing their own leadership and self-advocacy skills by communicating to relevant federal policymakers about the education, employment, and technology accessibility needs of Americans who are deafblind
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NationalHelen Keller International
Purpose of the Grant
To support Helen Keller International’s ChildSight® Program in awareness-building and advocacy for City of New York and, ultimately, State of New York funding for the now-unfunded State mandate to screen the vision of all New York school children at middle school and other appropriate age levels
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New York StateLearning Ally
Purpose of the Grant
To strengthen and expand Learning Ally’s College Success Program (CSP), a relatively new national program to provide college students who are blind and visually impaired with the supports they need to thrive academically and socially in college, graduate from college, and obtain paid employment
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NationalMy Blind Spot, Inc.
Purpose of the Grant
To advance the employability and financial success of 30 New York City area small business owners, accounting and financial professionals, and job aspirants who are blind by training them to use My Blind Spot’s accessible version of QuickBooks™ accounting software
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New York StatePerkins School for the Blind
Purpose of the Grant
(1) To build the capacity of Perkins’s Resource Center in Cordoba, Argentina to strengthen the practice of K-12 teachers and schools that serve children who are blind and multiply disabled in targeted Spanish-speaking South American countries and (2) to help stabilize and strengthen the financial management of three model schools for such children in Sao Paulo, Brazil (Ahimsa and ADEFAV) and Lima, Peru (Helen Keller Association – Peru)
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International: Latin AmericaSeva Foundation
Purpose of the Grant
To build eye care capacity and service volume in the Seva Foundation’s Eastern Nepal eye care network
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International: AsiaThe CRUDEM Foundation, Inc.
Purpose of the Grant
To help the Hôpital Sacré Coeur in Milot, Haiti launch and sustainably operate full-time eye care service
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International: Latin AmericaVIA
Purpose of the Grant
To increase VIA’s financial sustainability and generate permanent jobs for people who are blind by partnering with the Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired to win preferred-source government contracts and business contracts for both manufactured goods and contact center services
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New York StateVISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Purpose of the Grant
To provide, each year, job preparation and placement services to between 15 and 30 incumbent Lavelle – Brother Kearney Scholars interested in obtaining permanent paid jobs in New York City
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New York State, Other Tri-State Area (CT & NJ)American Foundation for the Blind
Purpose of the Grant
To sustain AFB’s FamilyConnect® online information service for American families with children who are blind and visually impaired, strengthen and expand the program’s partnership with the National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments and its parent organization (Lighthouse Guild International), and hire an independent evaluator to assess program services and outreach and recommend needed program improvements
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NationalBrother James Kearney Scholarship Program
Purpose of the Grant
To provide financial assistance to U.S. residents who are legally blind, financially needed, and studying at any of 12 partnering private colleges and universities located in New York State, Northeastern New Jersey, and Southwestern Connecticut (Phase 3)
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New York State, Other Tri-State Area (CT & NJ)Catholic Charities Community Services
Purpose of the Grant
To expand the Catholic Guild for the Blind’s outreach and independent living skills training for seniors who are blind and reside in one of three target Lower Hudson Valley counties.
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New York StateCentral Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Purpose of the Grant
To support the expansion of the Dwyer Avenue warehouse
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New York StateCentral Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Purpose of the Grant
To help finance the building of an approximately $1.25 million warehouse extension that will facilitate the employment of more workers who are blind.
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New York StateHadley School for the Blind
Purpose of the Grant
To support the updating of key distance-learning braille courses to comply with the Unified English Braille Code: the new code that, beginning in 2016, will set the standard for all braille writing in the U.S.
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NationalHelen Keller International
Purpose of the Grant
To support Helen Keller International’s ChildSight® Program in (1) continuing to provide free vision screenings and examinations, prescription eyeglasses, and needed referrals to advanced eye care to students in public and parochial middle schools located in low-income neighborhoods of New York City, together with at-risk students in NYC’s alternative high schools, and (2) purchasing new optical equipment to replace old and worn equipment and implementing an electronic data collection system to record all clinical data and drive enhanced service efficiency
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New York StateHelen Keller International
Purpose of the Grant
To help support the purchase and implementation of a comprehensive agency-wide Enterprise Resource Planning management information system (“ERP”).
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International: AsiaHelen Keller Services
Purpose of the Grant
To underwrite the hiring of an Outreach Coordinator who will identify a combined total of 125 working-age New Yorkers who are blind and underserved and refer them to the agency’s Rehabilitation Department for employment and other rehabilitation services
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New York StateHelen Keller Services
Purpose of the Grant
To provide supervised, paid internships, adaptive job training, and job placement and support services to 9-12 working-age adults who are deafblind
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NationalInternational Eye Foundation
Purpose of the Grant
To match, dollar-for-dollar, a Rotary International challenge grant supporting the International Eye Foundation and local partner Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital in building quality, sustainable eye care capacity in the suburbs of New Delhi, India
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International: AsiaInternational Eye Foundation
Purpose of the Grant
To support the International Eye Foundation (IEF) and its Lima, Peru-based partner, the Clinica Divino Nino Jesus (DNJ), in building, equipping, and operationally launching a DNJ satellite eye clinic in Loreto, Peru
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International: Latin AmericaL.V. Prasad Eye Institute of the Indo-American Eye Care Society
Purpose of the Grant
To build the sustainable capacity of 30 L.V. Prasad Vision Centers in the Indian state of Telangana: (1) to screen the vision of 960,000 children ages 0-16 in the centers’ respective catchment areas and (2) to provide prescription eyeglasses, advanced eye care, and low vision and rehabilitation services to those children as needed
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International: AsiaNational Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments, Inc.
Purpose of the Grant
To support the continued operation of the New York City chapter of the National Association of Parents of Children with Visual Impairments (NAPVI) and the building of a sustainable NAPVI-New Jersey chapter at the St. Joseph’s School for the Blind in Jersey City, NJ
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Other Tri-State Area (CT & NJ)