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4 people are interested
Grant Research Volunteer
ORGANIZATION: Guiding Eyes for the Blind - Patterson & Yorktown
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4 people are interested
Grant Research Volunteer
Are you a detail-oriented person? Do you enjoying digging for information on the web? Would you like to help us continue to find new sources of funding?
We’re looking for a Volunteer to research and identify grants that we may be eligible for. Using the web you would work to determine appropriate foundations whose objectives are aligned with our mission and provide this information to our Grant Writing staff.
Although it costs us upwards of $50,000 for each of our dogs that we place with a visually impaired person, we do not charge for our services. With over 160 dogs per year placed free of charge, we rely solely on financial donations from foundations, individuals, civic groups and corporations to allow us to continue our important work. Guiding Eyes receives no government funding.
Ideally we would like to find someone interested in doing this on a weekly and ongoing basis. We estimate it will take about 5-10 hours of your time per week.
This volunteer opportunity will be done at our Yorktown Heights, N.Y. facility. It may be perfect for any of your friends, family or other acquaintances that are unable to volunteer with us in one of our more traditional volunteer programs. Feel free to circulate this email amongst anyone you think may be interested.
For more information contact Vikki Iwanicki, Manager of Volunteer Services at viwanicki@guidingeyes.org or 845 230 6412.
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About Guiding Eyes for the Blind - Patterson & Yorktown
Location:
611 Granite Springs Road, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598, US
Mission Statement
Guiding Eyes for the Blind is dedicated to enriching the lives of blind and visually impaired men and women by providing them with the freedom to travel safely with the assistance of professionally trained Guiding Eyes dogs, thereby assuring greater independence, dignity and new horizons of opportunity.
Description
Since 1954, Guiding Eyes has managed to thrive on goodness, even in the most difficult of times. We relied on the goodness of our loyal base of generous supporters, passionate staff and dedicated volunteers to come together to meet the growing needs of our diverse community of people with vision loss. Through this unwavering support and dedication, Guiding Eyes has graduated more than 10,000 guide dog teams. We believe in the powerful, meaningful change that our beautiful dogs bring to the lives of people facing the daily challenges that blindness and vision loss present.
It can cost up to $50,000 annually to train and care for a guide dog throughout its working lifetime with a person who is blind. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we provide all services completely free of charge to people who are blind or with vision loss. At Guiding Eyes, we rely upon the contributions of our generous donors to fulfill our mission.
Guiding Eyes for the Blind has two locations: Yorktown Heights and Patterson.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
611 Granite Springs RoadYorktown Heights, NY 10598
DATE POSTED
October 27, 2016
SKILLS
- Internet Research
- Grant Writing / Research
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Driver's License Needed
- Orientation or Training
- 5 - 10 hours per week
- Detail Oriented, computer savvy