| Primary Eye Care |
| Cancer Care, Inc. | $375,000 |
| To: (1) provide financial assistance and counseling and referral services to 180 Tri-State New York area residents with ocular cancer and other vision-affecting cancers and (2) help broaden the program's support base by institutionalizing a direct mail campaign. | |
| Helen Keller International | $550,000 |
| To continue support for ChildSight New York, which provides free vision screenings and prescription eye-glasses, and referrals to low-income students in NYC's public and parochial middle schools--and now, also in alternative high schools. | |
| Helen Keller International | $52,000 |
| To pilot the ChildSight program in selected Jewish and Lutheran day schools in New York City. | |
| International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness | $200,000 |
| To strengthen capacity-building organizations in developing world eye care. | |
| International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness | $200,000 |
| To support the Seva Foundation in strengthening: (1) eye care delivery and sustainability among six eye hospitals in India and Bangladesh and (2) the training competencies of hospitals in Seva's Centers for Community Ophthalmology (CCO), worldwide. | |
| L.V. Prasad Eye Institute of the Indo-American Eye Care Society | $550,000 |
| To establish 30 community-based primary eye care centers ("Vision Centers") in three districts of south-central India - and to launch a spectacle dispensing unit to help supply these Centers. | |
| Seva Foundation | $360,000 |
| To strengthen and institutionalize 10 primary eye care centers in Nepal and North India and to provide supplemental support for the centers' eye care services to a total of 273,275 students and adults. | |
| Task Force for Global Health | $244,978 |
| To support a comprehensive trachoma-control program in selected districts in Ethiopia. | |
| Vision Spring | $300,000 |
| To support a partnership with the Bangladeshi nonprofit BRAC to sell 360,000 affordable reading glasses to low-income people throughout Bangladesh. | |
| Rehabilitation Services |
| Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc. | $225,000 |
| To stabilize and expand FGDB's "hometown training" guide dog services in and beyond the New York City area. | |
| Olmstead Center for Sight | $302,500 |
| To support the continuation of Olmstead's Statler Training and Employment Program. | |
| Seeing Eye | $100,000 |
| To support the build-out, equipping and furnishing of the student and guide dog training area of their new Morristown Training Center. | |
| Visions | $75,000 |
| To support a project to train legally blind youth and adults in employment-related technology. | |
| Information Services |
| American Foundation for the Blind | $279,750 |
| To continue support for FamilyConnect, an online interactive information service for families of visually impaired children; the program is co-led by AFB and the National Association of Parents of Visually Impaired Children. | |
| Miscellaneous |
| Foundation Center | $2,500 |
| For general support. | |
| Goddard Riverside Community Center | $500 |
| In memory of Mrs. Mary Caffrey, mother of founding Board member John Caffrey. | |
| Rosalie Hall | $1,000 |
| In memory of Frances Ziminsky, wife of retired founding Board member Victor Ziminsky. | |
| St. Gregory the Great Church | $500 |
| In memory of Mrs. Mary Caffrey, mother of founding Board member John Caffrey. | |
