2026 Community Mobility Champion Award

VisionServe Alliance Announces its 2026 Annual Award Recipients! VisionServe Alliance is honored to recognize exceptional leaders in the blindness and low vision field who distinguish themselves through their creativity, commitment, and dedication to improving the lives of people living with blindness and low vision.

2026 Community Mobility Champion Award

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VisionCorps Receives the 2026 Community Mobility Champion Award

ST. LOUIS, May 12, 2026 – VisionServe Alliance is thrilled to announce that VisionCorps in Lancaster, PA, has received the Community Mobility Champion Award. This award, presented by UZURV, recognizes an individual or organization that has demonstrated a commitment to advocacy and partnership resulting in increased community mobility for blind and low-vision individuals.

VisionCorps has pursued innovative strategies to advocate for increased mobility options for people who are blind or vision impaired. In addition to travel training and orientation programs, the organization pursues collaborative programs to increase transportation options for the citizens they serve. For example, it is currently developing a partnership called LionsLift, which would organize Lions Club members as volunteer drivers to provide transportation to the blind and low-vision community.

“The Community Mobility Champion Award is dedicated to honoring individuals or organizations who are actively working to improve the accessibility of transportation and pedestrian spaces, and in particular people who are blind/low-vision,” said Ron Brooks, UZURV’s Senior Director – Policy and Partnership. “VisionCorps understands that freedom of movement improves the quality of life for all people, including those who are blind/low-vision, and it takes hard work, dedication and array of services — all designed to do one important thing: increase the ability of blind/low-vision community members to get out and about, and enjoy everything the Lancaster community has to offer. We couldn’t be more pleased to recognize VisionCorps for their work.”

“VisionCorps is a powerful advocate for those with vision loss, participating in a broad range of committees charged with reviewing and proposing new mobility routes and options in the community,” said Jason Eckert, VP and COO, VisionServe Alliance. “We are thrilled to recognize this innovative organization with this Community Mobility Champion Award.”

VisionCorps is also a member of Transit for ALL PA, a statewide coalition working with policymakers across Pennsylvania to enhance public transit and increase funding to provide more comprehensive transportation services.

The Community Mobility Champion Award will be presented at the Envision and VisionServe Alliance 2026 Conference in Columbus, OH, at lunch on Thursday, May 28, 2026.



About VisionServe Alliance

VisionServe leads an alliance of more than 130 organizations that vastly improve the lives of people with blindness and low vision. VisionServe Alliance collaborates with leaders to enhance the health of the vision service field, addressing strategic issues, cultivating leadership, strengthening management systems, sharing best practices, increasing capacity-building and sustainability, informing public policy, and maximizing awareness of life-changing vision rehabilitation training. For more information, visit VisionServeAlliance.org.


About UZURV
UZURV helps communities lower the cost of transportation for people with mobility challenges while delivering highly reliable service that appropriately meets the needs of each rider – including a zero-tolerance policy for service animal denials. UZURV’s Adaptive Transportation Network Company (Adaptive TNC) model is leveraged by 45 organizations across the country, including ten of the top twenty largest ADA paratransit programs by passenger volume. Drivers provide riders on-time, door-to-door service, and are highly qualified, including drug and alcohol screenings that meet FTA standards.

UZURV is built on an Assisted Mobility Platform that simplifies the operation and management of mobility services, covering onboarding, compliance, dispatching, and monitoring of transportation providers. UZURV was founded in 2017 and is based in Richmond, Va. For more information about UZURV, visit https://uzurv.com/.


Press inquiries may be directed to SDraddy@VisionServeAlliance.org for VisionServe and Bridé-Marie Baker for UZURV at Bride.Baker@UZURV.com