The Jewish Guild for the Blind

The Jewish Guild for the Blind (JGB) is a not-for-profit voluntary agency whose mission is to assist blind and visually impaired persons to achieve their optimum potential as members of society. The guild offers a wide range of services to blind and visually impaired persons and their families without regard to religion, race, or age. Clients are charged for services based on their ability to pay. Direct services encompass rehabilitation in a number of areas (including daily living skills, vocational and mental health counseling, job training and placement), activities in the arts, a school for multihandicapped students 5 to 21 years of age, a residential facility for adults, a skilled nursing facility for the aged blind, and other programs including adult day care. The guild offers field training experience to graduate students of social work, vocational rehabilitation, and special education.

JGB is the world's largest circulator of taped bestsellers and other recorded books to blind and disabled persons.

Thanks to the University of Missouri–Columbia, from whose page at http://etcs.ext.missouri.edu/info/maa/religion.html I pilfered this description. (And thanks to the Jewish Guild for the Blind, whose seed money was instrumental in helping me set up a vision laboratory.)

I am not affiliated with the Jewish Guild for the Blind (save for the fact that they were generous enough to give me a grant). They can be contacted at:
Jewish Guild for the Blind
15 West 65th Street
New York, NY 10023
(212) 769–6200