VISability
Thank you, Volunteers!
Today is #InternationalVolunteerDay, and we would like to take a moment to thank everyone who donates their time and energy to making VIPS great. Your dedication to our families and support of our mission is invaluable. Thank you, thank you, thank you! We love our volunteers!
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Feeling This Life and Spotify Wrapped 2025
So Spotify dropped Wrapped for Creators for Feeling This Life. Wow! Check out these numbers. We are humbled and flattered, and owe it all to our listeners. Thank you for listening this year. Want to listen (or relisten) to the top episode of 2025? Click here for “Vision AND Another Condition with Kacey Poynter.”
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Kiwanis Club of Bloomington Makes Donation to VIPS
On December 4th, Sheila Klopfenstein, VIPS Indiana Education Lead and Teacher of the Visually Impaired, attended a meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Bloomington, Indiana, and was presented with a $1,500 donation. Thank you, Kiwanis! Your support means everything to the families we serve in Indiana.
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Thankful for Partners Like PDS Optical and Korrect Optical
You might remember that in the summer, we launched a new program with our friends at PDS Optical and Korrect Optical to give each VIPS kid a pair of free glasses. The program has been a huge success! This week, we received this note (and photos) from the mother of one of those kids. “Thank…
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2024–2025 VIPS Impact Report Released
We are excited to announce that our 2024–2025 Impact Report is available. You can read online below or click here to download a PDF. We catch up with a few of our VIPS kids, feature an overview of the past year’s events, and our aspirations for the future. We hope you enjoy it.
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2025 VIPS Holiday Gift Guide
We asked our teachers and interventionists to recommend a few toys suitable for children who are blind or have low vision. Feel free to reach out to your VIPS teacher or interventionist if you need ideas for creating accessible experiences from a favorite book, creating a story box for your child, or finding more ideas…
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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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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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