2025 Annual Spring Celebration Honoring
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Thursday, April 24, 2025
Million Air at Albany Airport ~ 5:00 – 8:00 p.m.
This award is in recognition of RPI’s outstanding leadership and innovation in improving the lives of people who are blind and visually impaired. The contributions from RPI’s Design Lab Capstone Projects to NABA’s Manufacturing Center since 2009 have been instrumental in supporting our blind workforce.
For information contact Gail Hessney at ghesnney@naba-vision.org or 518-463-1211 ext. 201. Or, register online here: https://nabavision.org/2025-spring-celebration/
…Last year on May 1, 2024, at Million Air Albany, NABA presented the Honorable Daniel P. McCoy, Albany County Executive, with the 2024 Visionary of the Year award. This award recognizes and honors individuals who demonstrate outstanding leadership in service to others by improving the lives of seniors, adults, and youth in our community. This signature fundraising event benefits NABA’s Youth, Employment, and Senior Programs to help blind and visually impaired individuals to achieve independence and growth.
Save the Date!
2025 Annual Visionary Golf Tournament
Monday, September 22, 2025 – Albany Country Club
On Monday, September 23, 2024, at Albany Country Club, NABA celebrated the 25th Anniversary of the Annual Visionary Golf Tournament that supports essential programs and services to individuals who are blind or visually impaired. Our devoted and talented team does this by providing employment; vision rehabilitation therapy; counseling to cope with vision loss; adaptive technology training; orientation and mobility skills instruction; recreation activities; socialization programs; and education/vocation readiness activities.
For more information about Northeastern Association of the Blind at Albany’s annual fundraising events, please contact: Gail Hessney, Development Director, at ghesnney@naba-vision.org or 518-463-1211 ext. 201
