Volunteer Endowment Campaign
MAB’s Volunteer Program, founded in 1959, matches sighted volunteers with visually impaired individuals who need assistance with reading, clerical work, grocery shopping and transportation. The program provides a critical support network to more than 300 blind individuals each year. The program is extremely cost-effective, but trained staff are needed to ensure that each volunteer is carefully interviewed, screened, and trained before being placed in a blind person’s home.
In the last ten years funding for this program has been cut significantly due to cutbacks and changing priorities at institutions such as the United Way. To maintain current volunteer services, grow the program to eliminate our waiting list, and eventually endow the program in perpetuity, MAB has launched a Fiftieth Anniversary Volunteer Fund. With a generous seed gift from philanthropists and longtime MAB volunteers David and Sydney Feldman, we seek to create a permanent source of revenue to support this necessary program for the next fifty years and beyond.
To support the fund, use our online gift form or mail your contribution to:
Development Office
MAB Community Services
200 Ivy St
Brookline, MA 02446
For more information please contact Cynthia Canham in the MAB Development Office at (617) 732-0245 or email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
"Volunteering is a very, very important part of my life. Since I retired it makes me feel purposeful, like I am part of something meaningful. There are pairs of people working together for years and in some cases decades. The volunteers are part of a support system that make it possible for blind people to be contributing workers and community members who just happen to be blind."
- Lucy
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