Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc.

Recent Grants

GRANTS APPROVED IN 2011
2011   2010   2009   2008   2007   2006

Primary Eye Care
Giving Assets, Inc. / Impact Assets Inc. $250,000
To support the launch of its Quantum Catch (QC) project to manufacture and distribute worldwide an affordable fundus camera-autorefractor.

 
Helen Keller International $1,350,600
To support the ChildSightŪ Program's free vision screenings, examinations, and prescription eyeglasses to needy students in public and parochial middle schools located in NYC.

 
International Eye Foundation $400,131
To launch a sustainable eye care training center at the Visualiza Eye Clinic in Guatemala City, Guatemala and to partner with Visualiza and Visions for the Poor in launching a sustainable "social enterprise" eye care clinic in Managua, Nicaragua.

 
Rehabilitation Services
Catholic Charities Community Services $375,000
To launch the only comprehensive and self-sustaining vision rehabilitation program serving three Lower Hudson Valley counties: respectively, Duchess, Sullivan, and Ulster Counties.

 
Helen Keller Services for the Blind $73,400
To cover the capital costs associated with launching a permanent Low Vision Center at Helen Keller Services for the Blind's subsidiary in Sands Point, Long Island.

 
Lighthouse International $180,000
To sustain and expand a Fund-initiated program to provide vision assessment, vision rehabilitation services, and/or eyeglasses to Roman Catholic religious and clergy living in the three Downstate New York Catholic dioceses.

 
Olmsted Center for Sight $224,000
To provide job training to 40 adults with visual impairments and/or physical disabilities, place at least 30 of the 40 in paying jobs with benefits in competitive workplaces, and offer ongoing career counseling and workplace support.

 
VISIONS $150,000
To help launch the VISIONS at Selis Manor Senior Center. The Center will provide a mix of free services (vision rehabilitation, health-promotion, social services, recreation, and daily meals) to older NYC residents who are blind and visually impaired.

 
Training For Vision Professionals & Para-Professionals
Dominican College $289,557
To provide continued core support to Dominican College's Teacher of the Visually Impaired Programs (M.S. Degree and Certificate).

 
Research Foundation of the City University of New York $159,993
To create an on-line national library of video clips demonstrating exemplary practices in teaching K-12 students with visual impairments.

 
Education
City Access New York, Inc. $109,036
To launch and help sustain the Career Discovery Project, an effort to provide meaningful internship opportunities in NYC museums to at least 28 high school students who are blind and visually impaired.

 
National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments, Inc. $240,000
To support the continued operations of NAPVI's New York City Chapter.

 
Perkins School for the Blind $317,880
To sustain and expand its Lavelle-supported work to strengthen educational services for blind and multiply disabled children in Brazil and Chile and scale-up the exemplary post-school transition services that are now being implemented in Peru.

 
Information Services
 
Xavier Society for the Blind $100,000
To underwrite the third-party duplication of a new edition of the authorized New American Bible (New Testament) in Braille, large-print, and audio-CD formats.

 
College Scholarship Program
Dominican College $117,979
To provide scholarship support for students who are legally blind.

 
Fordham University $13,680
To provide scholarship support for students who are legally blind.

 
Manhattanville College $25,680
To provide scholarship support for students who are legally blind.

 
Marist College $7,500
To provide scholarship support for students who are legally blind.

 
Seton Hall University $52,500
To provide scholarship support for students who are legally blind.

 
St. John's University $22,233
To provide scholarship support for students who are legally blind.

 
St. Thomas Aquinas College $36,843
To provide scholarship support for students who are legally blind.