| Education/K-12 |
Research Foundation of the City University of
New York | $260,023 |
| To support the development and implementation of Hunter College's tangible cues literacy program four at New York City-based schools dedicated to serving children who are visually and multiply impaired . | |
| Education/College Stipend Program |
| Dominican College | $27,500 |
| To support a stipend program for financially needy students who are legally blind. | |
| Seton Hall University | $28,115 |
| To support a stipend program for financially needy students who are legally blind. | |
| St. John's University | $25,843 |
| To support a stipend program for financially needy students who are legally blind. | |
| St. Thomas Aquinas College | $15,000 |
| To support a stipend program for financially needy students who are legally blind. | |
| Information Services |
| Disability Funders Network | $15,000 |
| To support a partnership with the Foundation Center to improve the completeness, accuracy, and accessiblity of the Center's information about foundation and corporate funding for disability-related programs. | |
| National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments, Inc. | $210,000 |
| To support the continuing operations of NAPVI's New York City chapter. | |
| Philanthropic Field |
| Foundation Center | $2,500 |
| To provide general operating support. | |
| Primary Eye Care |
| Christian Blind Mission International | $262,506 |
| To establish sustainable programs for preventing and treating eye disease in four rural provinces of Ecuador. | |
| Eye-Bank for Sight Restoration, Inc. | $270,000 |
| To support a marketing program to encourage New Yorkers to register as future eye donors - and to increase public awareness about the Eye-Bank's mission. | |
| Helen Keller International | $110,000 |
| To sustain and strengthen the HKI ChildSight® program of vision screening, eye glass provision, and eye care referrals for low-income pre-school children in New York City. | |
| International Eye Foundation | $409,429 |
| To expand the SightReach® Management Network of sustainable eye clinics and regional demonstration centers in Egypt, Latin America and India. | |
| International Council of Ophthalmology Foundation | $510,000 |
| To help four Catholic mission hospitals and clinics in Nigeria build high-quality, affordable, and sustainable eye care services. | |
| International Trachoma Initiative | $155,936 |
| To conduct a comprehensive SAFE trachoma prevention program in Ethiopia, including monitoring and evaluation. | |
| Seva Foundation | $197,020 |
| To build sustainable eye care capacity and services in the East Central Africa region served by the Kilimanjaro Centre for Community Ophthalmology. | |
| Rehabilitation Services |
| Baruch College, Research Foundation of CUNY | $131,457 |
| To increase the number of students served in Baruch's traditional courses in adaptive computing, to expand its distance learning offerings, and to provide job training and conference services to visually impaired people. | |
| Catholic Guardian Society and Home Bureau | $150,000 |
| To support adaptive renovations and repairs, together with vision rehabilitation training for frontline staff, at a Manhattan residential facility for visually impaired adults with multiple disabilities. | |
| Jewish Guild for the Blind | $189,376 |
| To support the continuation and expansion of the SightCare Program, an effort to provide needed vision services to New York City's senior citizens. | |
| Jewish Guild for the Blind | $345,690 |
| To continue a partnership with Columbia University Medical Center's Department of Ophthalmology to refer Columbia's low vision patients to Guild services and to educate the department's residents about such services. | |
| Lighthouse International | $385,000 |
| To establish a partnership with New York Weill-Cornell Medical Center to build sustainable systems for referring Weill-Cornell patients to Lighthouse low vision and vision rehabilitation services at the Lighhouse. | |
| New York City Industries for the Blind, Inc. | $205,915 |
| To support training and placing 24 relatively low-skilled people who are legally blind in competitive, paying blue collar jobs. | |
Optometric Center of NY, State College of
Optometry-SUNY | $430,700 |
| To support a partnership with Wenzhou Medical College in China to improve and expand Wenzhou's care for blind and low vision patients and increase the number of qualified low vision practitioners throughout China. | |
| VISIONS | $200,000 |
| To launch a Vision Rehabilitation Interpreters Program dedicated to addressing the growing needs of New York City's non-English-speaking and immigrant populations. | |
| Religious Services/Access to Curch |
| National Catholic Partnership on Disability | $44,150 |
| To support publishing and distributing large-print Catholic Sacramentaries and Lectionaries, in the New York City area and nationwide. | |
| Training for Vision Professionals and Paraprofessionals |
| Perkins School for the Blind | $253,740 |
| To help establish and strengthen model education programs for children with visual impairments in Brazil and Chile, including pre-service and in-service training for teachers and parent advisory boards. | |
