Awarded Grants
Search & Filter Awarded GrantsNortheastern Association of the Blind at Albany
Albany, NY, USAAbout the Grantee
NABA provides a wide range of services to individuals with visual impairments. Some of these services include training and placing legally blind adults in professional employment, and providing rehabilitation services to seniors with age-related vision loss. NABA, with over a century of experience, continues to help individuals overcome the challenges of vision loss, enabling them to lead more productive, independent lives. NABA also provides free vision screening for children 18 months to 4 years old through our KidSight Program.
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
Amount
$256,725Term
36 monthsGrant Regions
Upstate NYOlmsted Center for Sight
Buffalo, NY, USAAbout the Grantee
The Olmsted Center for Sight aims to help people who are blind or visually impaired achieve their highest level of independence.
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
Amount
$259,180Term
24 monthsGrant Regions
Entire NY Tri-State AreaOlmsted Center for Sight
Buffalo, NY, USAAbout the Grantee
The Olmsted Center for Sight aims to help people who are blind or visually impaired achieve their highest level of independence.
Purpose of the Grant
To establish a satellite low vision clinic in Buffalo’s inner suburban ring, thus increasing the combined total of Olmsted low vision patients served from 1,000 at baseline to 1,400 in grant year two
Amount
$208,000Term
24 monthsGrant Regions
Upstate NYSeva Foundation
Berkley, CA, USAAbout the Grantee
Seva works with local communities around the world to develop self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight.
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
Amount
$405,000Term
36 monthsGrant Regions
Africa, International, Latin America & Caribbean, South AsiaSeva Foundation
Berkley, CA, USAAbout the Grantee
Seva works with local communities around the world to develop self-sustaining programs that preserve and restore sight.
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
Amount
$420,000Term
36 monthsGrant Regions
International, South AsiaThe Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Rochester, NY, USAAbout the Grantee
The Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ABVI), founded in 1911, is a premiere provider of vision rehabilitation services to people who are blind or visually impaired throughout the Greater Rochester, Finger Lakes, and Southern Tier areas of New York.
As part of its mission-focused work, ABVI empowers people with vision loss to engage in fulfilling careers by offering a variety of entrepreneurial businesses, including a state-of-the-art contact center, and manufacturing and fulfillment services.
Purpose of the Grant
To help underwrite the launch of what is expected to become a sustainable neurologic vision rehabilitation program
Amount
$250,000Term
24 monthsGrant Regions
Upstate NYThe Research Foundation for SUNY
Brockport, NY, USAAbout the Grantee
Camp Abilities Brockport aims to empower children and teens with visual impairments to be physically active and productive members of their schools, towns, cities, and communities, as well as to improve the health and well-being of people with sensory impairments.
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.
Amount
$301,000Term
48 monthsGrant Regions
Entire NY Tri-State AreaVISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
New York, NY, USAAbout the Grantee
Started by six women in 1926 and pioneered racially integrated programs in the early 1920’s,VISIONS is a 501c3 nonprofit rehabilitation and social service agency celebrating over 90 years of service, assisting people of all ages who are blind or visually impaired to lead independent and active lives in their homes and communities, and educating the public to understand the capabilities and needs of people who are blind or visually impaired so that they may be integrated into all aspects of community life.
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
Amount
$500,000Term
36 monthsGrant Regions
NYC Metro AreaNational 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
Amount
$44,150Research 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
Amount
$349,924VISIONS
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