Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc.

Recent Grants

GRANTS APPROVED IN 2006
2011   2010   2009   2008   2007   2006

Education/K-12
Helen Keller Services for the Blind $40,000
To support the development of a comprehensive, internet-accessible database for their Braille and Large-Print Library  
Hospital Audiences, Inc. $132,000
To support the 'Adapted Arts and Sciences' project for blind and visually impaired students in New York City's public K-8 schools  
St. Joseph's School for the Blind $65,000
To underwrite the purchase of the adaptive fitness, sports, and physical therapy equipment needed in St. Joseph's new school building  
St. Lucy Day School $42,270
To underwrite the renovation and electrical wiring work needed to ensure that St. Lucy's blind and visually impaired students can continue to use their Lavelle-funded adapted reading and writing equipment in St. Lucy's new school building.

 
Information Services
American Foundation for the Blind $232,700
To support a partnership with the National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments to develop and implement an information/referral peer networking web site for parents of visually impaired children, nationwide.  
Foundation Center $10,000
To provide support for a partnership with the Disabilities Funders Network to improve the quality and accessibility of information about funding for disability-related programs.  
Jewish Guild for the Blind $246,500
To support a pilot program to increase awareness and utilization of vision rehabilitation services among visually impaired seniors living in New York City.

 
Primary Eye Care
Cancer Care, Inc. $331,000
To sustain and expand its Financial Assistance and Support Program for People with Ocular Cancers.  
Carter Center $100,000
"To strengthen and expand a prevention and treatment program for more than one million people affected by river blindness (onchocerciasis) in Uganda "  
Christian Blind Mission International $200,000
To support building cataract surgery capacity and services in Ecuador.  
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness $250,000
To support the Eye Fund Initiative, an effort to help developing world eye care programs build the capacity to provide high-quality, high-volume, affordable, and sustainable eye care.  
L.V. Prasad Eye Institute of the
Indo-American Eye Care Society
$500,000
To support the establishment of 30 visions centers in the Prakasam District of Andhra Pradesh, India; the centers provide vision screenings, prescription eye glasses and referrals to advanced eye care.  
Optometric Center of NY, College of Optometry-SUNY $177,000
To provide school-based vision examinations and eye care treatment to New York City pre-school children who fail initial vision screenings.  
Seva Foundation $250,000
To help six leading developing world eye care programs to help other, less advanced eye care programs become high-quality, high-volume, low-cost and self-sustaining providers of surgical and other eye care.  
Seva Foundation $360,000
To establish primary eye care centers and conduct vision screening and mobile eye surgery camps in Nepal and North Central India.  
Seva Foundation $550,577
To establish 20 Aravind Eye Care System Vision Centres in Aravind's rural South India catchment area; the centers provide vision screening, prescription eye glasses and referrals to advanced eye care.  
Seva Foundation $167,500
To underwrite purchase of the equipment and supplies needed for a new eye care training center in northeastern Tanzania.  
Vision Spring $350,000
To support expanded sales of affordable reading glasses in India.

 
Rehabilitation Services
VISIONS $175,000
To increase the number of blind NYC adults that VISIONS places in competitive, paying jobs.

 
Religious Services/Access to Church and other Spiritual Services
Xavier Society for the Blind $148,660
To support purchase and installation of a new software system needed to support the Society's customer service, fundraising and management activities.