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Resilience and Responsiveness in a Time of Unprecedented Challenge
April 8, 2020
Author: Paul Schroeder, April 8, 2020 Across the US, businesses, and agencies, and the communities and individuals they serve are struggling in countless ways to maintain well-being – physical, mental and economic. And, our political leaders ar...

Important Survey Shared Flattening the Inaccessibility Curve
April 3, 2020
Today VisionServe Alliance joins many other organizations and companies in a collaborative project to collect data and information about the experiences of adults who are blind or have low vision during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our goal is to understan...

VisionServe Alliance Joins Nonprofit Community in Signing COVID-19 Stimulus Letter
March 20, 2020
March 19, 2020 – VisionServe Alliance joined over 144 national nonprofit organizations calling for the federal government to pass a stimulus bill to support nonprofit organizations facing the COVID-19 crisis. The letter, spearheaded by the Nati...

Families First Coronavirus Response Act Signed
March 20, 2020
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201) was signed by President Donald Trump on March 18. A congressional summary of H.R. 6201 can be found here. The measure is the second emergency aid package that Congress approved amid the coronavi...

Take-Aways From the ELC in Atlanta
December 23, 2019
“There is lots of work to be done, and together we can do it.” 181 leaders in the blindness and low vision field attended VisionServe’s Executive Leadership Conference in Atlanta, Georgia this past November. This figure sets a record high attendance ...

Executive Leadership Conference to Provide 100% Accessibility for Blind and Visually Impaired Attendees; Exciting Technology To Be Demonstrated
September 4, 2019
November 3 – 6, 2019 at the Georgian Terrace in Atlanta, GA St. Louis, Missouri – September, 2019 – Over 220 national leaders will convene in Atlanta, Georgia this fall for discussions on the future of providing services to people who are blind...

VisionServe Alliance Forms Aging & Vision Loss National Coalition
August 7, 2019
St. Louis, Missouri – August 7, 2019 – VisionServe Alliance announces it is spearheading the new Aging & Vision Loss National Coalition to tackle critical issues related to older people experiencing impaired sight as the result of age-relat...

Web-based Referral System Launched in Florida, New Hampshire and Oklahoma
February 21, 2019
St. Louis, Missouri—February 20, 2019 – VisionServe Alliance has launched a pilot program of its new web-based patient referral system known as “VisionRefer!” The web-based referral system will help make referrals of low vision patients by their doct...

Results of the 5th Biennial Compensation and Benefits Survey Now Available
June 19, 2018
St. Louis, Missouri – June 19, 2018 – In partnership with the National Industries for the Blind (NIB) and the National Association for the Employment of People Who Are Blind (NAEPB), VisionServe Alliance announces that the results of the 5th Bienni...

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Resilience and Responsiveness in a Time of Unprecedented Challenge

Author: Paul Schroeder, April 8, 2020 Across the US, businesses, and agencies, and the communities and individuals they serve are struggling in countless ways to maintain well-being – physical, mental and economic. And, our political leaders are also struggling, with limited resources and levers to provide assistance and guidance. Recently […]...

Breathe in…Breathe Out

Today is Monday, April 27, 2020, which would have been our first full day together in Albuquerque, New Mexico for our CEO-Focused Summit. I was feeling sentimental over the weekend – grieving for what might have been. View the photos from the Atlanta conference But I awoke today in Winter Park, FL to […]...

Board Meeting – April 28, 2020

Board meeting 4/28/20 Time: Apr 28, 2020 3:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Join Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/153922375?pwd=bFhoSmEvYnZUY3RXNk5uckpIU1p4UT09 Meeting ID: 153 922 375 Password: 291237 One tap mobile +16465588656,,153922375# US (New York) +17207072699,,153922375# US (Denver) Dial by your location +1 646 558 8656 US (New York) +1 720 707 2699 […]...

LINKS Issue 1: 2020

VisionServe Alliance LINKS Newsletter (Text Only) SPRING 2020 – Issue 1 Links – Learning, Innovation, Networking, Knowledge, Sharing Editor’s Note: We realize many changes have occurred in the last month in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Jane was originally scheduled to present one of our keynote sessions at the […]...

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