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Tides Center
Purpose of the Grant
To help support the continued operation of the leadership program for young adults who are deafblind, nationwide.
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NationalVIA
Purpose of the Grant
To support VIA, in partnership with Helen Keller Services for the Blind and VISIONS, in providing the training, mentoring, and evaluation services needed to help strengthen job training and placement capacity and drive increases in competitive job placements at the five Upstate New York vision rehabilitation agencies slated to participate in the Lavelle-BENNY jobs initiative.
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New York StateVIA
Purpose of the Grant
To (1) implement the Lavelle-BENNY Initiative in VIA’s Western New York catchment area, using new employer-partnership strategies to increase the number of working-age adults who are blind that are placed in competitive paid jobs, and (2) underwrite the Master’s-level education of an incumbent VIA staff member as an Orientation and Mobility trainer who can prepare newly placed workers to commute safely to and from work.
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New York StateXavier Society for the Blind
Purpose of the Grant
To support the production of up to 20 new human-narrated talking books in the Catholic tradition.
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NationalAmerican Printing House for the Blind
Purpose of the Grant
To support the development of a five-year business/sustainability plan for the Fund-supported FamilyConnect® web service for parents of children with vision loss and the other blindness-field websites, directories, and 1-800 information/referral services that the agency recently acquired from the American Foundation for the Blind.
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NationalAssociation for the Multiple Impaired Blind
Purpose of the Grant
To underwrite the purchase of four adpated, handicapped-accessible vans to be used to transport visually impaired and multiply disabled adults from their new AMIB group homes to daily adult daycare programs and to medical appointments.
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Other Tri-State Area (CT & NJ)Benetech Initiative
Purpose of the Grant
To provide 500 additional accessible educational textbooks for K-12 schools in India and to train teachers and blind and visually impaired students in 50 target K-12 schools in using Bookshare’s accessible digital library.
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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 support CancerCare®’s Financial Assistance and Support Program for People with Ocular Cancers who reside in the Tri-State New York area.
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New York StateDominican College
Purpose of the Grant
To help sustain its Teachers of Students Who are Visually Impaired (TVI) Graduate Program and, by grant year three, to increase by 33% the number of new TVI students annually recruited.
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New York StateEnrichment Audio Resource Services, Inc. (E.A.R.S.)
Purpose of the Grant
To provide general operating support for E.A.R.S’s vision rehabilitation service for NYC seniors who are visually impaired — and also to support the agency’s continuing effort to identify and partner with a much larger NYC nonprofit interested in referring clients with vision loss to E.A.R.S.
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New York StateHadley Institute for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Purpose of the Grant
To support a major updating, restructuring, and multi-media recasting of its popular online course, “Introduction to Braille for Visual Learners”: a course for the sighted family members, teachers, and paraprofessionals who care for and/or teach people who are blind.
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NationalHelen Keller International
Purpose of the Grant
To undertake a field study to investigate the barriers that Bangladeshi women face in accessing screening and treatment services for diabetic retinopathy and to identify practical strategies for overcoming these barriers.
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International: AsiaHelen Keller Services
Purpose of the Grant
To support a Helen Keller National Center for Deaf-Blind Youths and Adults project to strengthen the Center’s capacity to prepare and place working-age adults who are deaf-blind for and in competitive paid jobs and to increase the proportion of trainees who actually obtain such jobs.
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NationalHimalayan Cataract Project
Purpose of the Grant
To build and sustain the capacity of five community eye centers that, respectively, serve four remote, mountainous regions in Nepal and one underserved city in the Kathmandu Valley.
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International: AsiaInternational Eye Foundation
Purpose of the Grant
To develop a detailed plan of action to build the capacity of two public-sector hospital systems in Peru.
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International: Latin AmericaInternational Eye Foundation
Purpose of the Grant
To partner with Lima-based Divino Nino Jesu Eye Clinic and the Peruvian Ministry of Health to help Peru’s two largest public eye care systems – the Intituto Nacional de Oftalmologia (INO) in Lima, Peru and the Instituto Regional de Oftalmologia (IRO) in Trujillo — to increase eye care volume, efficiency, and quality and to strengthen eye care referral systems.
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International: Latin AmericaL.V. Prasad Eye Institute of the Indo-American Eye Care Society
Purpose of the Grant
To support C. L. Gupta Eye Institute in the strengthening of five existing CLGEI vision centers (notably via the addition of tele-medical connections with the Institute’s mother tertiary hospital) and the launch of two new fully equipped and staffed vision centers in western Uttar Pradesh, India.
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International: AsiaLighthouse Guild International
Purpose of the Grant
To pilot test a promising falls-prevention program for seniors — in this instance, a specially adapted version for seniors who are blind or visually impaired.
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New York StateNational Federation of the Blind of New York State
Purpose of the Grant
To provide general operating support for the NFB NYS’ 2018 and 2019 BELL Academy summer enrichment program in NYC for elementary students who are blind.
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New York StateNew York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai
Purpose of the Grant
To support the research and planning needed to guide: (1) the future expansion of NYEE’s low vision optometry service and (2) the launch of a sustainable system to refer patients who are blind to vision rehabilitation services in the community.
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New York StatePerkins School for the Blind
Purpose of the Grant
To support a Perkins International project to strengthen and scale the education of children with visual and other impairments in Latin America’s three largest countries: Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico.
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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 orientation and mobility (O&M) trainers for people who are blind and visually impaired.
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New York StateThe Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Purpose of the Grant
To build sustainable capacity to reach and provide low vision and rehabilitation services to more visually impaired seniors throughout ABVI’s Greater Rochester and Finger Lakes catchment area and to use the remaining nine percent of the requested funds to research and identify the best option for a new ABVI client-management database system.
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New York State