The Center for Vision Loss has announced that it earned more than $100,000 in corporate and foundation gifts during the second half of its 2020 fiscal year, which ended on June 30. That support included more than $6,000 from special grants related to the global COVID-19 pandemic and more than $14,000 in converted sponsorships from […]
The Center for Vision Loss announced today that its Lions Needs Campaign produced a revenue increase in 2019-2020 and that its 2020-2021 campaign will start in January. The 2019-2020 Lions campaign, which closed on June 30, raised a total of $50,674, a growth of approximately 6% over the prior year, said Dennis Zehner, Executive Director […]
The Center for Vision Loss has announced several employee promotions and new assignments that took effect on Wednesday. Promoted to full-time positions were Teresa Pickett, who became Services Coordinator; Yvette Quintero, who became the organization’s Lead Client Caseworker. Monroe Transport Driver Lisa DePietro was promoted officially to become Monroe Transport Coordinator. Assuming new positions as […]
Dennis Zehner assumed the role as Executive Director of the Center for Vision Loss today as the agency began a new service year and initiated a critical effort to define how it will advance its mission. Zehner had been the organization’s Director of Advancement since 2018 and earned the additional title of Associate Director in […]
Shortly after Center for Vision Loss Executive Director Douglas Yingling joined a blues and rock guitar duo called Yingling Porter On Tap, the band agreed to open the agency’s first Songs4Sight concert event. The fact that Center for Vision Loss employees came together to sponsor the duo’s set reflects the affection that they hold for […]
Thousands of Americans are injured on and around the fourth of July, and the Center for Vision Loss offers a simple way to keep kids safe – to look but don’t touch. Almost half of people injured on or around Independence Day are children and teenagers, and approximately one in six injuries are eye-related, according […]
The Center for Vision Loss will begin to extend its reactivation on June 29 as restrictions related to the global COVID-19 pandemic will be eased throughout its entire service area. The agency closed its campuses and suspended nearly all its operations in March due to state-mandated shutdowns in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh, Northampton, and Monroe counties. All […]
The Center for Vision Loss closed its 2019-2020 C. Well Sweepstakes on Wednesday by picking 16 winners in lieu of its canceled April and May drawings. The agency had not held its monthly drawings since March because its campuses were closed due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Five winners are drawn in a typical month. […]
Susan Lieberman of East Stroudsburg, PA, felt like she lost pretty much everything that defined her in 2013 when viral pneumonia and respiratory failure put her in a coma, during which she suffered multiple strokes that took most of her sight. For Susan – who had been a cardiac nursing specialist and avid photographer – […]
There is a clear link between a child’s ability to see and his or her success in school. Lorraine Santaliz’s twin grandchildren, Lenore and Charles, are living proof. Lorraine is the Youth Services Librarian for the Whitehall Public Library. While she encouraged both of her grandchildren to embrace learning enthusiastically, both of them struggled in […]