Check out the Events page and the Events calendar on this web site to find information on all the Centennial events scheduled for 2011.
Video board display across from Fountain Square on May 4, 2011 -
CABVI Day on Fountain Square!
Tom Sawyer attended the Volunteer Appreciation Event held at the B&B Riverboats on April 10, 2011.
CABVI staff and volunteers march in the Reds Opening Day Parade on March 31.
A letter from Helen Keller to the Cincinnati Association for the Welfare of the Blind received in late 2010.
A telegram sent by President Wm. Howard Taft endorsing the Cincinnati Association for the Welfare of the Blind in December of 1910.
A time line from the beginning days in 1911 up through 2010 has been installed in our lobby. Please take a look when you are here!
KROGER PRESENTS CABVI WITH CHECK
CABVI thanks Kroger Co. for supporting CABVI's Centennial year by becoming the Centennial Presenting Sponsor. Reuben Shaffer, VP of Operations at Kroger and CABVI board member, presented a check at a recent Board of Director's meeting. Pictured are Reuben Shaffer, Kathy Gottschlich, Michael Lichstein, and John Mitchell.
Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired Turns 100 In May, 2011
The year 2011 marks an important Centennial in Greater Cincinnati for thousands of lives who have been impacted by blindness or low vision as the Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired (CABVI) celebrates its 100th Anniversary. Since its beginning, some 130,000 people have discovered and rediscovered personal abilities with the help of the Walnut Hills based nonprofit.
An Evolution Of Growth
Times have changed since Barney H. Kroger became the Cincinnati Association for the Welfare of the Blinds first board president in 1911. The organization began as a small site that employed adult blind men to make brooms and mops. It also offered training to midwives and nurses in the prevention of newborn blindness.
By 1946, the Association had changed its name to the Cincinnati Association for the Blind and later to the Cincinnati Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired to reflect its evolution in meeting the needs of the community. Today CABVI serves children and infants (and their families), adults and seniors in eleven counties. Last year alone more than 4,300 lives were enriched because CABVI supported them in working to realize their fullest potential.
CABVI Services
Using state-of-the-art technologies, CABVIs array of services include low vision, vision rehabilitation therapy, access technology, orientation and mobility, early childhood and youth, and Radio Reading Services. Also offered are counseling, Talking Book Machines and other information services.
CABVIs Industries Program is the largest supplier of heavy-duty pressure sensitive tapes to the United States Military. Additionally, through CABVIs Base Supply Center Store OFFICE RUNWAY at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, more than 800 products manufactured by over 70 blindness agencies are sold through the store. Products include those manufactured by CABVI or other agencies affiliated with National Industries for the Blind (NIB). More than 45 people who are blind or visually impaired are employed through CABVIs Industries Program.
As population trends over the next three decades are expected to double the number of people who experience blindness or vision impairment, we will continue to seek enhanced ways of helping people with visual impairments maintain independence, said John Mitchell, CABVI executive director.