RESOURCES FOR LOW VISION AND REHABILITATION SERVICE

All About Low Vision

AMD Alliance International

American Academy of Ophthalmology

American Council of the Blind
ACB is the nation's leading membership organization of blind and visually impaired people and strives to improve their well-being.

American Diabetes Association

American Foundation for the Blind
AFB promotes technological access and provides people with important information and tools for those living with vision loss and their families.

American Optometric Association

Braille Institute of America
Serving Southern California

Department of Veterans Affairs, Blind Rehabilitation Service
Central Office, Washington, D.C.

Ears for Eyes Program

Eye Care America

Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation

Foundation Fighting Blindness

Foundation for Retinal Research

Glaucoma Research Foundation

Going Blind Movie

Guide Dogs for the Blind

Guiding Eyes for the Blind

International Blind Sport Federation

Jewish Guild for the Blind

LightHouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
Serving Northern California

Lighthouse International
The Lighthouse is one of the largest non-profit organizations dedicated to preserving vision and helping those with vision loss. They provide direct rehabilitation services.

Linkable.org
Social network for the disabled

Macular Degeneration Foundation

Macular Degeneration Partnership

National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments

National Association for Visually Handicapped

National Eye Institute
Part of the National Institutes of Health, the NEI was established to protect and prolong the vision of the American people, primarily by conducting research to prevent and treat eye diseases.

National Federation of the Blind
The NFB improves blind people’s lives through advocacy, education, research, technology, and programs encouraging independence and self-confidence.

National Organization on Disability

Prevent Blindness America

Schepens Eye Research Institute
Schepens fights blindness by developing new technologies, therapies and knowledge to retain and restore vision. Through a continuum of discovery, the Institute works toward a future in which blindness is prevented, alleviated, and, ultimately, cured.

SmartSight (AAO)

The Blinded Veterans Association

The Earle Baum Center of the Blind
Serving Northern California

The Eye Digest

The Glaucoma Foundation

The Low Vision Gateway (portal)

The Readers Digest Partners for Sight Foundation
Partners for Sight is a grant-making foundation whose mission is to increase the self-reliance of the blind and visually impaired.

The Seeing Eye

VisionAWARE
AWARE supports a self-help approach to vision rehab, providing useful adaptive techniques, and access to important information about resources and services.

VisionServe Alliance

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WESTERN AMERICANA

Colorado Dude & Guest Ranch Association (CD&GRA)
Western dude ranch vacations with a flavor of the Old West.

Cowboy.com
The Western Connection

Cowboys & Indians
The Premier Magazine of the West

The Dude Ranchers Association (DRA)
Over 100 ranches committed to fostering the Western way of life. Helping people find quality dude ranch and guest ranch vacations since 1926.

Guidon Books
Arizona bookseller featuring Western Americana

Nevada Department of Cultural Affairs

Nevada Magazine
For more than 70 years, telling the Silver State's story Lifestyle, Landscape and Travel

Nevada State Railroad Museum
Carson City, NV. Preserving the railroad heritage of Nevada, including cars of the famous Virginia & Truckee Railroad

The Nevada Travel Network
Guide to Nevada by David Toll

North Lake Tahoe Historical Society
Tahoe City, CA

Northern Nevada Railway Foundation
Rebuilding the Legendary Virginia & Truckee Railroad

ReadWest.com
Online magazine featuring authors and books of Western literature

Westerners International
A non-profit foundation to stimulate interest and research in frontier history.

Western Writers of America
An organization whose 600+ members derive their livelihood, in whole or part, from writing about the land and the peoples of the American West, past and present. The membership includes novelists, historians, essayists, journalists, poets, screenwriters, editors, agents, and others. WWA was founded in 1953 to promote and recognize Western literature.

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WWII VETERANS GROUPS

National Association of Atomic Veterans
OPERATION CROSSROADS, BIKINI TESTS, 1946

Navy Seabee Veterans of America

United States LST Association

LCT Flotillas of World War II ETO/PTO

USS LCI National Association

U.S. Navy Armed Guard
U.S. Navy Armed Guard and U.S. Merchant Marine in WWII

U.S. Merchant Marine
 
U.S. Navy Cruiser Sailors Association

USS Helena

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WWII MERCHANT MARINE MUSEUM SHIPS

Battleship Cove
The World's Largest Naval Ship Museum - USS Fall River (CA-131)

SS American Victory
Mariners Memorial and Museum Ship

SS Jeremiah O'Brien
National Liberty Ship Memorial

SS John W. Brown
Project Liberty Ship

SS Lane Victory
U.S. Merchant Marine Veterans of WWII

SS Red Oak Victory
Richmond Museum

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