Funding Area: Vision Rehabilitation & Resources
Aurora of Central New York, Inc.
To partner with the Association for Vision Rehabiliation and Employment and the Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired in developing and delivering a technology exploration and training program for blind and visually impaired children, ages 10-14, and their parents in a twenty-county Central New York catchment area.
Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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.
Enrichment Audio Resource Services, Inc. (EARS)
To support the program’s continuing operations.
Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc.
To help drive continuing increases in enrollments at the Northeast’s lowest-cost provider of guide dogs for people who are blind.
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey
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.
Northeastern Association of the Blind at Albany
To support year-round rehabilitative, educational and recreational programming for blind and visually impaired youth ages, 8-17, in NABA’s East-Central New York catchment area.
VIA
To establish a satellite low vision clinic in Buffalo’s inner suburban ring, thus increasing the combined annual total of Olmsted low vision patients served from 1,000 at baseline to 1,400.
The Research Foundation for SUNY
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.
VISIONS/Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired
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 NYC or Long Island.