| Education/K-12 |
| Benetech Initiative | $309,489 |
| To expand Bookshare.org's production of accessible digital books through a partnership with a nonprofit organization in India . | |
| Lavelle School for the Blind | $2,000,000 |
| For the School's cash reserve fund. | |
| Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic | $333,000 |
| To partner with the NYC schools to implement a comprehensive listening skills development program benefiting 159 K-12 school children who are blind or visually impaired. | |
| Sisters of St. Dominic of Blauvelt | $100,000 |
| To support the Sisters' Retirement Fund; this grant is made in recognition of the Sisters' long and distinguished service as former teachers and administrators at the Lavelle School for the Blind. | |
| Education/College Stipend Program |
| Dominican College | $13,180 |
| To provide stipend support for blind college students. | |
| St. John's University | $17,921 |
| To provide stipend support for blind college students. | |
| Philanthropic Field |
| Foundation Center | $2,500 |
| For general support. | |
| Primary Eye Care |
| Calvert Social Investment Foundation | $356,000 |
| For three purposes: (1) to buy ophthalmic equipment for Grameen Eye Hospital in Barisal, Bangladesh; (2) for sustainability planning for a new eye hospital in the Republic of Cameroon; and (3) to support David Green's coordinating, advising and fundraising for both projects. | |
| Cancer Care, Inc. | $30,000 |
| To support a direct mail fundraising campaign designed to build a sustainable individual donor base for a Fund-supported CancerCare project: the Financial Assistance and Support Program for People with Ocular Cancers (and other cancers affecting vision). | |
| Catholic Near East Welfare Association | $193,051 |
| To support projects at eye care or vision service organizations in the Jerusalem area, the West Bank of Palestine and Lebanon . | |
| Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, Inc. | $63,680 |
| To support purchase of surgical systems and supplies needed to produce the pre-cut corneas used in certain state-of-the-art corneal transplants. | |
| Friends of Aravind | $60,000 |
| To establish a permanent fundraising and fiscal office in the United States for the Aravind Eye Care System, which is itself based in South India. | |
| Optometric Center of NY, State College of Optometry-SUNY | $129,000 |
| To demonstrate the feasibility and cost-effectiveness of a streamlined process for referring, diagnosing and treating elementary school children with vision-obstructing learning disabilities. | |
| Project Orbis International | $389,350 |
| To enable Orbis to help two eye hospitals in India strengthen their pediatric eye care capacity and services. | |
| Rehabilitation Services |
| Enrichment Audio Resource Services, Inc. (EARS) | $165,000 |
| To hire an executive assistant and to provide challenge grant dollars to help spur expanded grant support. | |
| Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc. | $14,250 |
| To plan and implement an improved method for training puppies slated to become adult guide dogs. | |
| Lighthouse International | $309,175 |
| To help support the launch of a Geriatric Center of Excellence that provides coordinated care for geriatric vision problems and co-existing medical conditions. | |
| Olmsted Center for the Visually Impaired | $457,240 |
| To expand employment training and placement capacity by: (1) working with specific employers to identify their call center, customer service and other job needs and (2) contracting with these employers to prepare and place blind and visually adults in these jobs. | |
| Religious Services |
| Lighthouse International | $357,280 |
| To sustain and expand a program to provide vision assessment, eye glasses, and/or vision rehabilitation services and equipment to Roman Catholic religious and clergy living in Downstate New York. | |
| Training for Vision Professionals and Paraprofessionals |
| Dominican College | $378,545 |
| To sustain and improve its hybrid-online master's degree program for teachers of the visually impaired. | |
| Hadley School for the Blind | $400,000 |
| To establish a distance education associates degree and certificate program for paraeducators serving blind and visually impaired people . | |
| Research Foundation of the City University of New York | $349,924 |
| To help underwrite the continued operation of the only university training program in the tri-state New York area for future Orientation and Mobility teachers. | |
