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Jessika Whitmire Cano, director of senior outreach for the M&M Whitmire Family Foundation, taught her daughter how to write her name in Braille on World Braille Day in January. It was the perfect expression of the foundation’s two biggest passions – children and seniors – and showed the foundation’s deep commitment to the organizations it […]
One year ago, on February 13th, nearly 200 people gathered to celebrate the grand opening of the Carl R. Otto Annex at Society for the Blind along with the successful closing of our Vision 2020 Comprehensive Campaign. Little did we know what was to come just one month later! The Otto Annex could not have […]
By Richard Rueda We hosted our 4th Annual Resource & Technology Fair virtually on November 13 with more than 75 attendees from across California and even a blind woman from the Philippines who heard about the fair from a friend. Our 2020 event held over Zoom had something for everyone. What normally is a 4-hour in-person […]