Associated Services for the Blind & Visually Impai (Philadelphia, PA)

General

• Mission:

The mission of Associated Services for the Blind & Visually Impaired is to promote self-esteem, independence, and self-determination in people who are blind or visually impaired. ASB accomplishes this by providing support through education, training, and resources, and through community action and education serving as a voice and advocate for the rights of all people who are blind or visually impaired. ASB is comprised of 54 employees- over one-third of whom are blind or visually impaired – and benefits from the service of 125 volunteers each year who contributed over 25,000 hours of service in 2009.

• History:

Associated Services for the Blind and Visually Impaired (ASB) is the largest nonprofit, 501 (c) (3) organization in the Delaware Valley (Southeastern Pennsylvania, Southern New Jersey, and Northern Delaware) that serves persons who are blind or visually impaired. In 1983, three agencies (Radio Information Center for the Blind, the Nevil Institute for Rehabilitation Services, and Volunteer Services for the Blind) merged to form Associated Services for the Blind, an incorporated non-profit agency. With that merger, a collection of services - beginning in 1874, with the Pennsylvania Working Home for Blind Men - became an effective, stronger, unified organization, providing a broad and growing array of programming for persons who are most in need.

Our mission is to promote self-esteem, independence, and self determination in people who are blind and visually impaired. ASB accomplishes this by providing support through education, training and resources, as well as through community action and public education, serving as a voice and advocate for the rights of all people who are blind or visually impaired.

Since 1983, we have served over 200,000 blind and visually impaired individuals in our Human Services Division alone through our myriad of services which include, personal adjustment to blindness training, education/vocational testing and assessment, orientation and mobility training, life skills educational classes, support groups, recreational classes, escorted shopping, phone friends, case management, information and referral, and computer technology training. With our mission as our driving force, we've been able to provide quality services to a population that is often underserved and truly overlooked and have made it available in such a way that the Philadelphia Foundation named ASB as one of the top thirteen highest performing not-for-profit organizations in Pennsylvania in 2007.

• Year established:1983

Registration

• Organization type:Grantseeker
• Country of registration:United States
• Year established:1983
• Tax Determination Letter:Received Determination Letter
• IRS Section:501(c)(3)
• IRS Subsection:509(a)(1)

Web Listing

• Guidestar listed:Yes
• Charity Navigator listed:Yes
• Give.org listed:No
• Charity Watch listed:No