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BTS: 2025 VIPS Holiday Card
This year, we asked our VIPS kids to create snowflakes for our 2025 holiday card. The results were amazing. We’re sorry to say we couldn’t include every submission, but we’d like to share them here for you so everyone can appreciate the hard work that went into each and every one. Read on for the…
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Elsa Heisel Sule Foundation Awards $5,000 Grant to VIPS
The Elsa Heisel Sule Foundation awarded VIPS $5,000 for the Early Childhood Intervention Program in Boone, Campbell, and Kenton counties, Kentucky. The Elsa Heisel Sule Foundation is a Charitable Trust established in 2004 by Elsa Heisel Sule, a native of Northern Kentucky. Elsa Sule’s philanthropic aspirations were to provide opportunities in education, the community, and…
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Shop Genesis Diamonds Lou and Donate to VIPS
This holiday season, you can give back to VIPS while finding something special for yourself or a loved one. Simply show this post at Genesis Diamonds Louisville during their Holiday Love Event, November 14th–16th, and Genesis will write a $100 check in your name directly to VIPS with any purchase—no minimum required. While walk-ins are…
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VIPS Visits IU Occupational Therapy Class
Sheila Klopfenstein, Indiana Education Lead and Teacher of the Visually Impaired, and Michelle Flora, Blind/Low Vision Specialist, spent the day with students from the Occupational Therapy Department of IU’s School of Health & Human Services, sharing information about VIPS and how early intervention helps children with blindness or low vision and their families. The students…
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Volunteers from TWG at the FRC
On November 4th, volunteers from TWG came to the Family Resource Center in Indianapolis to design and decorate birthday cards. We send these cards out to all the VIPS kids, and they love them. Thank you, TWG!
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Trick or Treating at VIPS!
Happy Halloween, everybody! Today, the preschoolers visited the admin side to go trick-or-treating—so many great costumes and lots of smiles.
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Trunk or Treat Sponsored by Baptist Health Child Development Center
We had a great trunk-or-treat hosted by our friends at the Baptist Health Child Development Center in Lexington. Over 50 volunteers came out to decorate their trunks and pass out treats to VIPS and Baptist Health families. Thanks to everyone who came out to support our kids. We had a blast!
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VIPS Featured in Geist Magazine
VIPS was featured in the November 2025 issue of Geist Magazine! You can read the article below or visit their website. Geist Magazine is based in Fishers, Indiana. Thank you for helping us tell our story.
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Sheila Klopfenstein on Merritt in the Morning Podcast
Sheila Klopfenstein, Indiana Education Lead and Teacher of the Visually Impaired, appeared on Episode 61 of Merrit in the Morning, hosted by Jim Merritt and Sheila’s husband, Brad Klopfenstein. Thank you, Brad and Jim, for helping us get the word out about VIPS! You can also listen or watch on Facebook, Apple Podcasts, and Spotify.
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Halloween Spooktacular at the FRC
The Halloween Spooktacular at the Family Resource Center was a great success. Many, many thanks to our sponsors: United Way of Central Indiana, McMillen Health, The Smile Mobile, Delta Dental Foundation, Starbucks(Thanks, Nicole), and [EYE can see]. And thanks to all the organizations that joined us, including Indiana Blind Children’s Foundation, Indiana School for the…
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