Year: 2013
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.
Dr. Shroff’s Charity Eye Hospital
To enable New Dehli’s 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.
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.
Learning Ally
To research, develop, and pilot a faster, more efficient, and more effective method of providing blind and visually impaired students with accessible instructional materials like talking books, on demand.
New York Eye and Ear Infirmary
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.
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.
Seva Foundation
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.