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| ⚫ | Formerly known as '''Lighthouse International''', it merged with The Jewish Guild for the Blind and as of January 2014 became known as Lighthouse Guild International,<ref name=nytimes-sept18-2013 /><ref name=AFB>{{cite web | url = http://www.afb.org/directory/profile/lighthouse-guild-international-formerly-lighthouse-international/12| title= Lighthouse Guild International (formerly Lighthouse International) - AFB Directory Profile| publisher=[[American Foundation for the Blind]]| accessdate= January 7, 2015| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150108010204/http://www.afb.org/directory/profile/lighthouse-guild-international-formerly-lighthouse-international/12 |archivedate=January 8, 2015|deadurl=no}}</ref> with the name eventually shortened to Lighthouse Guild.<!--as per 2016 logo and as per official website--> |
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'''Lighthouse Guild''' is an American charitable organization based in New York City, devoted to [[Vision Rehabilitation|vision rehabilitation]] and health care services that address the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities or chronic conditions. |
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| ⚫ | Its mission statement is "To overcome vision impairment for people of all ages through worldwide leadership in rehabilitation services, education, research, prevention and advocacy."<ref name=nyt2002>{{cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2002/11/18/giving/strategy-the-lighthouse-focuses-on-donors-new-and-old.html?pagewanted=all | title = Strategy: The Lighthouse Focuses On Donors New and Old | first= Joanna L. | last= Krotz | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = November 18, 2002 | accessdate = August 23, 2012}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Formerly known as '''Lighthouse International''', it merged with '''The Jewish Guild for the Blind''' and as of January 2014 became known as Lighthouse Guild International,<ref name=nytimes-sept18-2013 /><ref name=AFB>{{cite web | url = http://www.afb.org/directory/profile/lighthouse-guild-international-formerly-lighthouse-international/12| title= Lighthouse Guild International (formerly Lighthouse International) - AFB Directory Profile| publisher=[[American Foundation for the Blind]]| accessdate= January 7, 2015| archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20150108010204/http://www.afb.org/directory/profile/lighthouse-guild-international-formerly-lighthouse-international/12 |archivedate=January 8, 2015|deadurl=no}}</ref> with the name eventually shortened to Lighthouse Guild.<!--as per 2016 logo and as per official website--> |
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==History== |
==History== |
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| ⚫ | During a trip to [[Florence]], Italy, at the turn of the 20th century, sisters [[Winifred Holt|Winifred]] and Edith Holt learned of a free service that provided concert tickets to blind schoolchildren |
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'''Lighthouse Guild''' was officially formed in December 2013, when '''Jewish Guild Healthcare''' and '''Lighthouse International''' merged, with histories dating back to 1914 and 1905, respectively. |
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Winifred Holt also participated in founding the New York State Commission for the Blind and Visually Handicapped. In 1912, the association established a workshop on East 42nd Street where visually impaired men could manufacture marketable products, and the sisters opened their home to visually impaired women to create handcrafted items for sale, leading to the organization's motto, "Light Through Work."<ref name=officialhistory>{{cite web | url = http://www.lighthouse.org/about/history/ | title = Lighthouse History | publisher = Lighthouse International | date = n.d. | accessdate = August 23, 2012}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | During a trip to [[Florence]], Italy, at the turn of the 20th century, sisters [[Winifred Holt|Winifred]] and Edith Holt learned of a free service that provided concert tickets to blind schoolchildren, founded The Lighthouse, which became a pioneer in the field of vision rehabilitation. It was incorporated in 1906 as '''The New York Association for the Blind''', Inc., and began to provide counseling and instruction for people with vision impairment.<ref name=annualmeeting1907>{{cite news| url= http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=990CE1D61130E233A25750C1A9679C946697D6CF| title=Helping the Blind to See: Remarkable Work by Two New York Women in Behalf of the Sightless Teaching Carpentry, Telephone Operating, Massage, Sewing and Stenography to Those Who Cannot See.|date=January 13, 1907 | work= [[The New York Times]] | page = 5| accessdate= September 11, 2015}} {{subscription}}</ref> |
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That same year, the association created the River Lighthouse, in [[Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York]], as the first of its eventually several summer camps for visually impaired children. Camp Munger, in [[Bear Mountain, New York]], followed in 1923. A kindergarten was formed in 1925, and the Lighthouse Nursery School in 1933. An affiliation with the [[Ophthalmological Foundation]] in 1952 led to that foundation becoming the organization's research arm. The following year, the Lighthouse Low Vision Service was founded to administer to people with partial sight.<ref name=officialhistory /> |
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[[File:Lighthouse International Logo.jpg|left|thumb|Logo of predecessor organization Lighthouse International]] |
[[File:Lighthouse International Logo.jpg|left|thumb|Logo of predecessor organization Lighthouse International]] |
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The charity became international with the onset of [[World War I]], when Winifred Holt in 1915 established Le Phare de Bordeaux, in France. Other overseas offices opened in Paris; Rome; [[Warsaw]]; [[Guangzhou|Canton, China]]; Japan, the Middle East, India, South America, and elsewhere.<ref name=officialhistory /> |
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The '''Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School''' opened its doors in 1913. Today, it is the only community music school in the United States dedicated solely to serving students of all ages with vision loss. |
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In 1914, the first formal meeting of the '''New York Guild for the Jewish Blind''' was held. The organization began by providing care, support and education for blind children, opening a home in Yonkers in 1919, with separate annexes for blind women and men. By the mid-1930s The Guild’s Library, containing books in Braille in nine languages, was lending books to readers in all 50 states and 14 foreign countries. It undertakook the transcription into Braille of school books for students from the grammar school level through post-graduate studies. |
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'''The 1950s''' |
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The Guild opened its school for students aged 5-21 in 1951. The '''Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn School''' provides education and therapeutic services for students from the New York metropolitan area who are blind, visually impaired or deaf/blind and with additional disabilities. |
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In 1952, The Lighthouse commissioned the Ophthalmological Foundation to undertake medical research related to vision impairment and in 1953, it pioneered services for people with partial – rather than total – vision loss by establishing a low vision clinic. |
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'''The 1960s and 1980s''' |
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In 1961, The Guild opened the psychiatric clinic. It is the only such clinic in the country to offer treatment and management of behavioral disorders to people who are blind or visually impaired, with programs specifically designed and adapted for people with depression, anxiety and fear associated with sensory and functional loss. |
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| ⚫ | In 1967, Lighthouse opened a child development center, now called [[Samuel J. LeFrak|The Ethel and Samuel J. LeFrak School]], a universal pre-K program educates visually impaired children alongside their sighted peers, and in 1975 established the first professional training program in low vision care. It is accredited by the American Medical Association at that time. |
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In 1989, The New York Association for the Blind, Inc., became '''The Lighthouse Inc.''', and in 1998, the organization was renamed '''Lighthouse International'''. |
In 1989, The New York Association for the Blind, Inc., became '''The Lighthouse Inc.''', and in 1998, the organization was renamed '''Lighthouse International'''. |
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In January 2010 Lighthouse International acquired the National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH),<ref>{{cite web |title=Lighthouse International Acquires National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH) |url=http://lighthouse.org/news/press-releases/navh |publisher=Lighthouse International |accessdate=20 February 2012}}</ref> an organization which provided services for the partially sighted.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Association for Visually Handicapped - NAVH |url=http://healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR0415.htm |publisher=U.S. Department of Health & Human Services |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311063302/http://healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR0415.htm |archivedate=11 March 2012}}</ref> |
In January 2010 Lighthouse International acquired the National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH),<ref>{{cite web |title=Lighthouse International Acquires National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH) |url=http://lighthouse.org/news/press-releases/navh |publisher=Lighthouse International |accessdate=20 February 2012}}</ref> an organization which provided services for the partially sighted.<ref>{{cite web |title=National Association for Visually Handicapped - NAVH |url=http://healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR0415.htm |publisher=U.S. Department of Health & Human Services |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120311063302/http://healthfinder.gov/orgs/HR0415.htm |archivedate=11 March 2012}}</ref> |
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In September 2013, a merger was announced with The Jewish Guild for the Blind. As of January 2014 the new organization is known as '''Lighthouse Guild International'''.<ref name=nytimes-sept18-2013>{{cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/17/nyregion/two-groups-serving-the-blind-to-merge-in-2014.html | title = Hoping to Raise Awareness, 2 Leading Groups for the Blind Plan a Merger | work = [[The New York Times]] | first= James | last= Barron | date= September 16, 2013 | accessdate = September 23, 2013 | quote= The two organizations that are joining forces, Jewish Guild Healthcare and Lighthouse International, have slightly different specialties and slightly different patient populations. The new organization will be known as Lighthouse Guild International.}}</ref><ref name=AFB /> |
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==Branches and services== |
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[[File:Lighthouse International jeh.JPG|thumb|New York headquarters]] |
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It operates the Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute in New York, and New York Lighthouse [[Vision Rehabilitation]] Services.<ref name=nyt2002 /> |
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'''Awards and Vision Research''' |
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Throughout their histories, The Lighthouse and The Guild have developed vision research or rehabilitation awards. The '''Pisart Award in Vision Science''' was inaugurated in 1981 by The Lighthouse, to recognize an early-career clinician or scientist, while The Guild established the '''Bressler Prize in Vision Science''' in 2003. This latter award recognizes an established mid-career clinician or scientist. |
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In 1995, The Lighthouse created '''The Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute'''<ref name=nyt2002 />, while in 2011, The Guild created the Oberdorfer Award in Low Vision in 2011, in collaboration with the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research. The former conducts studies designed to translate scientific findings and technological advances into solutions for people living with vision loss, and the latter award recognizes an individual’s role in furthering low vision research and rehabilitation. |
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'''Healthcare and Training''' |
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The 1980s and 1990s saw the opening by The Guild of a number of medically related services for people who have vision loss, such as the Adult Day Health Care program, which opened in 1984; the Developmental Disabilities Day Treatment Program in 1990; the Diagnostic and Treatment Center in 1994, offering low vision services along with primary care and selected specialty medical services; and GuildNet, established in 1997, a New York State Managed Long Term Care plan. The Guild also began to focus on educating the caregivers of persons who are blind or visually impaired, when it created its SightCare training program in 2000. |
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'''Supporting Parents and Students Nationwide''' |
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In 2004, The Guild began its national scholarship program, now amalgamated with The Lighthouse program, awarding scholarships to help legally blind young adults make the transition to college. |
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To support parents whose children have vision loss, The Guild launched its '''National Tele-Support Network for Parents of Children with Visual Impairment''' in 2006. The program connects parents whose children have the same impairment, through weekly meetings facilitated by a psychologist or social worker. Parents phone in from around the country and abroad to discuss their children’s eye conditions. |
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The volunteer organization Tennis Serves introduced blind tennis in 2011 at Lighthouse International and at the [[California School for the Blind]] in [[Fremont, California]].<ref name=nyt2012>{{cite news | url = http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/science/a-game-of-tennis-tests-notions-of-blindness.html | title = Hitting the Court, With an Ear on the Ball | first=Thomas| last= Lin | work = [[The New York Times]] | date = June 4, 2012 | accessdate = August 23, 2012}}</ref> |
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==Headquarters== |
==Headquarters== |
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The organization was headquartered at the [[Sol Goldman|Sol and Lillian Goldman Building]] at 111 East 59th Street in New York City.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lighthouse.org/about/headquarters/ |title = About | publisher = Lighthouse International | accessdate = September 23, 2013 | archivedate= January 22, 2013| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130105173249/http://www.lighthouse.org/about/history/}}</ref> This portion of East 59th Street was named Lighthouse Way in 1994.<ref name=nyt2002 /> After the merger with The Jewish Guild, the organization moved to 15 West 65th Street.<ref>[http://www.guildhealth.org Jewish Guild] (official site)</ref> |
The organization was headquartered at the [[Sol Goldman|Sol and Lillian Goldman Building]] at 111 East 59th Street in New York City.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.lighthouse.org/about/headquarters/ |title = About | publisher = Lighthouse International | accessdate = September 23, 2013 | archivedate= January 22, 2013| archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20130105173249/http://www.lighthouse.org/about/history/}}</ref> This portion of East 59th Street was named Lighthouse Way in 1994.<ref name=nyt2002 /> |
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After the merger with The Jewish Guild, the organization moved to 15 West 65th Street.<ref>[http://www.guildhealth.org Jewish Guild] (official site)</ref> |
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==Percentage devoted to programs== |
==Percentage devoted to programs== |
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Revision as of 21:26, 29 January 2016
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| Formation | 1906 |
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| Legal status | Nonprofit |
| Purpose | Low-vision services and health care plans |
| Headquarters | New York, New York, USA |
Region served | United States |
President & CEO | Alan R. Morse |
Main organ | Board of Directors |
| Website | LighthouseGuild.org |
Lighthouse Guild is an American charitable organization based in New York City, devoted to vision rehabilitation and health care services that address the needs of people who are blind or visually impaired, including those with multiple disabilities or chronic conditions.
Its mission statement is "To overcome vision impairment for people of all ages through worldwide leadership in rehabilitation services, education, research, prevention and advocacy."[1]
Formerly known as Lighthouse International, it merged with The Jewish Guild for the Blind and as of January 2014 became known as Lighthouse Guild International,[2][3] with the name eventually shortened to Lighthouse Guild.
History
Lighthouse Guild was officially formed in December 2013, when Jewish Guild Healthcare and Lighthouse International merged, with histories dating back to 1914 and 1905, respectively.
During a trip to Florence, Italy, at the turn of the 20th century, sisters Winifred and Edith Holt learned of a free service that provided concert tickets to blind schoolchildren, founded The Lighthouse, which became a pioneer in the field of vision rehabilitation. It was incorporated in 1906 as The New York Association for the Blind, Inc., and began to provide counseling and instruction for people with vision impairment.[4]
The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School opened its doors in 1913. Today, it is the only community music school in the United States dedicated solely to serving students of all ages with vision loss.
In 1914, the first formal meeting of the New York Guild for the Jewish Blind was held. The organization began by providing care, support and education for blind children, opening a home in Yonkers in 1919, with separate annexes for blind women and men. By the mid-1930s The Guild’s Library, containing books in Braille in nine languages, was lending books to readers in all 50 states and 14 foreign countries. It undertakook the transcription into Braille of school books for students from the grammar school level through post-graduate studies.
The 1950s
The Guild opened its school for students aged 5-21 in 1951. The Harriet and Robert Heilbrunn School provides education and therapeutic services for students from the New York metropolitan area who are blind, visually impaired or deaf/blind and with additional disabilities.
In 1952, The Lighthouse commissioned the Ophthalmological Foundation to undertake medical research related to vision impairment and in 1953, it pioneered services for people with partial – rather than total – vision loss by establishing a low vision clinic.
The 1960s and 1980s
In 1961, The Guild opened the psychiatric clinic. It is the only such clinic in the country to offer treatment and management of behavioral disorders to people who are blind or visually impaired, with programs specifically designed and adapted for people with depression, anxiety and fear associated with sensory and functional loss.
In 1967, Lighthouse opened a child development center, now called The Ethel and Samuel J. LeFrak School, a universal pre-K program educates visually impaired children alongside their sighted peers, and in 1975 established the first professional training program in low vision care. It is accredited by the American Medical Association at that time.
In 1989, The New York Association for the Blind, Inc., became The Lighthouse Inc., and in 1998, the organization was renamed Lighthouse International.
In January 2010 Lighthouse International acquired the National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH),[5] an organization which provided services for the partially sighted.[6]
In September 2013, a merger was announced with The Jewish Guild for the Blind. As of January 2014 the new organization is known as Lighthouse Guild International.[2][3]
Awards and Vision Research
Throughout their histories, The Lighthouse and The Guild have developed vision research or rehabilitation awards. The Pisart Award in Vision Science was inaugurated in 1981 by The Lighthouse, to recognize an early-career clinician or scientist, while The Guild established the Bressler Prize in Vision Science in 2003. This latter award recognizes an established mid-career clinician or scientist.
In 1995, The Lighthouse created The Arlene R. Gordon Research Institute[1], while in 2011, The Guild created the Oberdorfer Award in Low Vision in 2011, in collaboration with the ARVO Foundation for Eye Research. The former conducts studies designed to translate scientific findings and technological advances into solutions for people living with vision loss, and the latter award recognizes an individual’s role in furthering low vision research and rehabilitation.
Healthcare and Training
The 1980s and 1990s saw the opening by The Guild of a number of medically related services for people who have vision loss, such as the Adult Day Health Care program, which opened in 1984; the Developmental Disabilities Day Treatment Program in 1990; the Diagnostic and Treatment Center in 1994, offering low vision services along with primary care and selected specialty medical services; and GuildNet, established in 1997, a New York State Managed Long Term Care plan. The Guild also began to focus on educating the caregivers of persons who are blind or visually impaired, when it created its SightCare training program in 2000.
Supporting Parents and Students Nationwide
In 2004, The Guild began its national scholarship program, now amalgamated with The Lighthouse program, awarding scholarships to help legally blind young adults make the transition to college.
To support parents whose children have vision loss, The Guild launched its National Tele-Support Network for Parents of Children with Visual Impairment in 2006. The program connects parents whose children have the same impairment, through weekly meetings facilitated by a psychologist or social worker. Parents phone in from around the country and abroad to discuss their children’s eye conditions.
Headquarters
The organization was headquartered at the Sol and Lillian Goldman Building at 111 East 59th Street in New York City.[7] This portion of East 59th Street was named Lighthouse Way in 1994.[1]
After the merger with The Jewish Guild, the organization moved to 15 West 65th Street.[8]
Percentage devoted to programs
The New York Times in 2002 reported that Lighthouse at the time used 80 percent of its $28 million annual budget on its programs.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Krotz, Joanna L. (November 18, 2002). "Strategy: The Lighthouse Focuses On Donors New and Old". The New York Times. Retrieved August 23, 2012.
- ^ a b Barron, James (September 16, 2013). "Hoping to Raise Awareness, 2 Leading Groups for the Blind Plan a Merger". The New York Times. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
The two organizations that are joining forces, Jewish Guild Healthcare and Lighthouse International, have slightly different specialties and slightly different patient populations. The new organization will be known as Lighthouse Guild International.
- ^ a b "Lighthouse Guild International (formerly Lighthouse International) - AFB Directory Profile". American Foundation for the Blind. Archived from the original on January 8, 2015. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|deadurl=ignored (|url-status=suggested) (help) - ^ "Helping the Blind to See: Remarkable Work by Two New York Women in Behalf of the Sightless Teaching Carpentry, Telephone Operating, Massage, Sewing and Stenography to Those Who Cannot See". The New York Times. January 13, 1907. p. 5. Retrieved September 11, 2015. (subscription required)
- ^ "Lighthouse International Acquires National Association for Visually Handicapped (NAVH)". Lighthouse International. Retrieved February 20, 2012.
- ^ "National Association for Visually Handicapped - NAVH". U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. Archived from the original on March 11, 2012.
- ^ "About". Lighthouse International. Archived from the original on January 22, 2013. Retrieved September 23, 2013.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; January 5, 2013 suggested (help) - ^ Jewish Guild (official site)
External links
- Lighthouse Guild (official site)
- Archive of former Lighthouse International official site