Awarded Grants
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Orbis International
Purpose of the Grant
To reduce avoidable blindness and vision impairment among children in West Bengal by increasing the availability, accessibility, and sustainability of pediatric eye care services throughout the Susrut Eye Foundation’s eye care system
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International: AsiaRenew International
Purpose of the Grant
To support the formatting, proofreading, printing, and promotion of large-print materials for visually impaired participants in a new RENEW faith-formation program entitled, “Be My Witness”
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NationalThe Priory in the USA of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem
Purpose of the Grant
To purchase the phaco-emulsification machine needed to open a second operating theater at St. John’s new eye clinic in the Gaza Strip, thereby facilitating the delivery of 400 additional cataract surgeries per annum (starting in 2015-16)
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International: AsiaUNRWA USA
Purpose of the Grant
To ensure that approximately 7,000 refugee children will be provided with glasses annually
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International: AsiaVISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Purpose of the Grant
To underwrite the launch of a sustainable healthy aging program for blind and visually impaired seniors participating in VISIONS’s Center on Aging
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New York StateAravind Eye Foundation
Purpose of the Grant
To support the Lions Aravind Institute of Community Ophthalmology (LAICO) in helping 25 eye hospitals on the Indian sub-continent sharply increase the volume, affordability, quality, and sustainability of their surgical and other eye care services.
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International: AsiaBrother 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)CancerCare, Inc.
Purpose of the Grant
To underwrite financial assistance and counseling services to 200 financially needy Tri-State New York Area residents with ocular cancer or other vision-affecting cancers
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New York StateCancerCare, Inc.
Purpose of the Grant
To underwrite a third-party evaluation of CancerCare’s Lavelle-supported financial assistance program for financially needy Tri-State New York residents with ocular cancers or other vision-affecting cancers
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New York StateCity Access New York, Inc.
Purpose of the Grant
To underwrite vocational education, career exploration, orientation and mobility training for New York City secondary school and college students who are blind or visually impaired through participation in paid internships at local museums and cultural institutions
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New York StateDominican College
Purpose of the Grant
To provide continued core support to Dominican Colleges Teacher of the Visually Impaired Programs (M.S. degree and certificate).
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New York StateHelen Keller International
Purpose of the Grant
To support the scaling up of diabetic retinopathy diagnosis and treatment in Bangladesh.
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International: AsiaHimalayan Cataract Project
Purpose of the Grant
To partner with Nepal’s Tilganga Institute of Ophthalmology in launching and operating a new Community Eye Center (CEC), strengthening and sustaining an existing CEC, and creating a new Secondary Level Eye Center (or “Community Eye Hospital”) in three underserved areas of Nepal. By the grant’s end, these Tilganga units are expected to be delivering a combined total of more than 3,000 cataract surgeries per year.
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International: AsiaInternational Eye Foundation
Purpose of the Grant
(1) to help four leading socially oriented hospitals in Latin America expand their capacities in providing primary, surgical, and sub-specialty eye care, increase the number of patients served, strengthen their eye care training and research capacities, and provide support to mentee clinics and (2) to strengthen the capacity of IEF itself – together with its Latin America-based partners in eye care training (“the Delta team”) – to manage an increasing number of eye care capacity-building and sustainability projects
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International: Latin AmericaLearning Ally
Purpose of the Grant
To pilot-test a national program to help 500 U.S. students who are blind or visually impaired learn and succeed in college by: (1) training students to self-advocate with fellow students, professors, and college administrators and (2) providing them web- and phone-based access to mentors in adaptive paths to college success
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NationalmyFace (formerly NFFR)
Purpose of the Grant
To underwrite the hiring of a Clinic Coordinator who will interface with patients and families, schedule clinical services and operating room times, manage referrals, and seek insurance reimbursement for patient care
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New York StatePerkins School for the Blind
Purpose of the Grant
To help sustain Perkins’ effort to increase the quality and accessibility of education for children who are blind and multiply disabled in Brazil, Chile, and Peru and to enable the Fundal School, Perkins’s anchor partner in Guatemala, to continue helping make quality, inclusive education more widely available to children who are blind and multi-disabled in Guatemala and neighboring Central American countries.
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International: Latin AmericaResearch Foundation of the City University of New York
Purpose of the Grant
To help sustain the Tri-State New York area’s only college training program for teachers of orientation and mobility skills (O&M) to people with visual impairments
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New York StateTask Force for Global Health
Purpose of the Grant
To work towards eliminating blinding trachoma in four woredas (health districts) In Ethiopia’s Oromia Region, with a combined population of approximately 644,000
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International: AfricaAurora of Central New York, Inc.
Purpose of the Grant
To develop and deliver a technology exploration and training program for blind and visually impaired school children, and to provide train-the trainer technology workshops for 20 of these students’ TVI
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New York StateBenetech Initiative
Purpose of the Grant
To revolutionize the availability of educational materials for people in India who are blind and visually impaired
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International: AsiaBrother 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)Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Purpose of the Grant
To help underwrite cost-saving and productivity-enhancing improvements in the heating, venting, and air conditioning (HVAC) and insulation systems of CABVI’s large 1920’s headquarters building.to underwrite cost-saving and productivity-enhancing improvements in the heating, venting, and air conditioning (HVAC) and insulation systems of CABVI’s large 1920’s headquarters building
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New York StateDr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital
Purpose of the Grant
To enable Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital to build sustainable capacity to train a combined total of 50 new vision technicians and ophthalmic nursing assistants per year
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International: Asia