Team With A Vision Triumphs at 126th Boston Marathon |
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Congratulations to Team With A Vision for running the 2022 Boston Marathon, our city’s first in-person, Patriots' Day marathon in three years!
We are so grateful to everyone who contributed to the success of Team With A Vision, including our talented and hardworking runners, guides, donors, fundraisers, and volunteers. Thank you for making the team’s 29th year so memorable and successful! Together you helped us raise $257,212 this year and more than $3.5 million since 1993! Stay tuned for exciting news about Team With A Vision's 30th Anniversary in 2023.
For more information, updates, and to share your Team With A Vision experience:
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MABVI Convening Discussion on
Digital Accessibility
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Advocacy and Inclusion Discussion
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
3:00 PM
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD) is a worldwide event that shines a light on digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities. In recognition of GAAD, the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (MABVI) is convening a discussion on Wednesday, May 18, at 3:00 pm ET with national advocates for digital accessibility. The discussion will focus on developing progressive and constructive frameworks for engaging with institutions and corporations to achieve digital accessibility and accessibility culture and inclusion through the use of community and self-advocacy. The panel and community conversation will feature:
- Sassy Outwater-Wright, Executive Director, MABVI
- Tai Tomasi, Director of Accessibility, Belonging, Inclusion, Diversity and Equity (ABIDE), American Printing House for the Blind (APH)
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Lainey Feingold, digital accessibility lawyer, and author
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MABVI Joins Age-Friendly Worcester
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MABVI is honored to join Age-Friendly Worcester as our newest community partner. The Age-Friendly mission focuses on older adults and issues such as housing, health & wellness, technology access, and social participation. MABVI collaborates with Age-Friendly communities to bring awareness about age-onset vision loss and its impact on community inclusion and information accessibility. Seeded by Tufts Health Plan Foundation (now Point32 Health) and the Massachusetts Healthy Aging Fund, MABVI’s initiative is a multi-year effort to promote accessibility within Age-Friendly systems and communities. Through this project, we aim to share our expertise with and learn from the larger age-friendly community by working collaboratively to meet the needs identified by all seniors and increase access to healthy aging resources. Find out more about MABVI's Age-Friendly initiative from our website.
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Volunteer Profile: Laura Liscum |
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MABVI salutes Laura Liscum, our longest-serving volunteer. Laura has worked with three consumers over the years. She approaches volunteerism as a partnership, where the volunteer is there to support each consumer’s agency over their lives and choices. Laura’s longest and most successful volunteer placement, with a community member named Diane, has lasted more than 20 years. Diane and Laura have done many things during that time – reading mail, doing computer work, grocery shopping, and taking a yoga class together at the YMCA. Laura admires Diane. “She’s a very resourceful person. She hasn’t let her vision loss stand in the way of her life.” Thank you, Laura, and all our volunteers who contribute so much!
Are you interested in becoming a volunteer? Check out our website for more information.
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Make an Impact on Someone's Life Volunteer for MABVI |
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Make an impact on someone's life — and your own! Sign up to volunteer today! This is a unique opportunity to volunteer with blind or visually impaired people, usually once a week for 1-2 hours or once every other week for 1-2 hours. We need volunteers across Massachusetts, but we have a particular need in several cities and towns with consumers on a waiting list to be matched with a volunteer.
- Dedham, Mattapoisett, and Watertown: Volunteers for mail reading and errands
- Quincy: Volunteers with cars for grocery shopping
- Cambridge and Revere: Volunteers with cars for errands
- Worcester: Volunteers with cars for medical rides and errands
For more information about MABVI's volunteer opportunities, click: HERE.
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