Awarded Grants
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Enrichment Audio Resource Services, Inc. (EARS)
Purpose of the Grant
To support E.A.R.S.’s continuing operations
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New York StateFreedom Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc.
Purpose of the Grant
To help drive continuing increases in enrollments at the Northeast’s lowest-cost provider of guide dogs for people who are blind.
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New York StateGoodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey
Purpose of the Grant
To train 20 blind working age adults for call-center work and place at least 12 of these trainees in paid call-center and customer service jobs
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New York State, Other Tri-State Area (CT & NJ)Learning Ally
Purpose of the Grant
to research, develop, and pilot a faster, more efficient, and more effective method of providing blind and visually impaired students with accessible, on-demand instructional materials like talking books
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NationalNew York Eye and Ear Infirmary
Purpose of the Grant
To provide free physician-led ophthalmic examinations, assistance with medical benefits, and medical referrals to needy seniors who reside in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg and Midwood neighborhoods.
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New York StateNortheastern Association of the Blind at Albany
Purpose of the Grant
To support year-round rehabilitative, educational and recreational programming for blind and visually impaired youth ages, 8-17, in the Greater Albany and East-Central New York State Areas
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New York StateSeva Foundation
Purpose of the Grant
To improve access to and utilization of five Primary Eye Care Centers (PECCs) and one new eye hospital in Nepal and four Vision Centers (VCs) in North India – and also to increase the efficiency and productivity of these facilities
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International: AsiaSeva Foundation
Purpose of the Grant
To support Seva Foundation and its consortium of global eye care organizations in building the eye care quality, volume, and sustainability of six developing world eye hospitals
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International: Africa, International: Asia, International: Latin AmericaThe Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Purpose of the Grant
To help underwrite the launch of what is expected to become a sustainable neurologic vision rehabilitation program
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New York StateThe Research Foundation for SUNY
Purpose of the Grant
To recruit and train a minimum of 900 NYS-based physical education teachers and athletic directors, paraeducators, youth who are blind and visually impaired, and parents of such youth in effectively including these youth in adaptive sports and physical education programs.
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New York StateVIA
Purpose of the Grant
To establish a satellite low vision clinic in Buffalo’s inner suburban ring, thus increasing the combined total of VIA low vision patients served from 1,000 at baseline to 1,400 in grant year two
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New York StateVIA
Purpose of the Grant
To underwrite job training and placement services for 50 Tri-State New York Area residents who are blind and/or physically disabled, including 20 people who are new to the Statler Center and 30 previously placed Statler graduates who need renewed employment assistance
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New York StateVISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Purpose of the Grant
To support VISIONS, together with its partner Helen Keller Services for the Blind, in launching an employer-centered and -guided job training and placement program for adults who are legally blind and reside in New York City or Long Island
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New York StateNational Catholic Partnership on Disability
Purpose of the Grant
To support publishing and distributing large-print Catholic Sacramentaries and Lectionaries, in the New York City area and nationwide
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NationalResearch Foundation of the City University of New York
Purpose of the Grant
To help underwrite the continued operation of the only university training program in the tri-state New York area for future Orientation and Mobility teachers
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New York StateVISIONS
Purpose of the Grant
To launch a Vision Rehabilitation Interpreters Program dedicated to addressing the growing needs of New York City’s non-English-speaking and immigrant populations
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