Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc.

Recent Grants

GRANTS APPROVED IN 2010
2011   2010   2009   2008   2007   2006

Primary Eye Care
Aravind Eye Foundation
(formerly known as Friends of Aravind)
$599,817
To strengthen the Aravind Eye Care System's overall pediatric care and outreach capacity, thereby supporting vision screenings and care to 1 million children in two of Aravind's South Indian catchment areas.

 
Perkins School for the Blind $80,000
To provide unrestricted support for the Perkins-affiliated FUNDAL School for the Deaf-Blind in Guatemala City, Guatemala.

 
Perkins School for the Blind $258,152
To support the building of the FUNDAL School's own capacity: (1) to serve blind, multi-disabled children itself and (2) to help launch, strengthen and expand other school programs serving these children in and near Guatemala.

 
Project Orbis International $395,910
To help Siliguri Greater Lions Eye Hospital in West Bengal, India build a strong and financially sustainable pediatric eye care program.

 
Research Foundation of the City University of New York $432,426
To help sustain Hunter College's training program for orientation and mobility (O&M) instructors for people with visual impairments.

 
RENEW International $50,000
To produce and market large-print religious education materials for visually impaired Catholic parishioners as part of an ongoing spiritual renewal project in selected NYC area dioceses.

 
Rehabilitation Services
Enrichment Audio Resource Services, Inc. (EARS) $150,000
To expand EARS's community outreach and program enrollments.

 
Goodwill Industries of Greater New York and Northern New Jersey $148,000
To support a program to train, place, and support five young adults who are blind and multiply disabled in permanent paying jobs within Goodwill Industries' network of New York City Thrift Shops.

 
VISIONS $200,000
To support Transitions to Adulthood in an after-school program for visually impaired adolescents.

 
Education
Lavelle School for the Blind $812,888
To help support the School's construction project.

 
Information Services
Benetech Initiative $199,137
To create an "automated converter" tool to enable blind and print-disabled readers to access Bookshare's digital library on low-cost portable devices.

 
Xavier Society for the Blind $75,365
To rewire Xavier's building so as to strengthen accessible, internet-based library services for blind, visually impaired and print-disabled clients.

 
Miscellaneous
Foundation Center $4,500
To provide general operating support.