Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc.

Recent Grants

GRANTS APPROVED IN 2010
2012   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.