Year: 2013
VIA
Benetech Initiative
To “revolutionize the availability of educational materials for people in India who are blind and visually impaired.”
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.