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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