Lavelle Fund for the Blind, Inc., formerly the
Lavelle School for the Blind, began operating a
school for the blind in 1909. In 1947, the School
became a state-chartered and state-funded 4201 school
dedicated to serving multi-handicapped children with
visual impairments. Then, in 1999, a new entity was
created to hold the School’s assets and run the School.
The old entity became the Lavelle Fund for the Blind,
Inc. (the Fund), a charitable foundation that administers
grants to benefit the broader community of visually
impaired people.
The Fund is dedicated to supporting programs that
promote the spiritual, moral, intellectual, and physical
development of blind and low-vision people of all ages,
together with programs that help people avoid vision
loss. Priority is given to agencies that concentrate on
serving the New York City metropolitan area.
While especially interested in programs that reflect the
Catholic tradition of serving the disadvantaged, the
Fund makes grants to a broad range of quality direct
service programs. Support is concentrated on programs
that present evidence of program impact on the population
served and plans for making measurable progress
toward pre-determined goals in a specific time frame.
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