Thankful Thursday is a day every year when we like to completely devote ourselves to thanking our donors and clients. This year, Thankful Thursday falls on November 30th!
Our mission is to combat the staggering 70% unemployment rate among adults who are legally or totally blind. In doing so, it is essential that we provide training & workforce development for our staff. The costs entailed with this support is $98,000 annually, among many other essential expenditures. We would not be able to fund these enormous and worthy expenses without the amazing support of our donors and clients! Last year alone, your support made possible for an estimated more than 2,500 hours of training, 60 earned raises in compensation, 8 earned promotions, and countless more staff taking off on our runway of success, beginning fantastic new careers with other organizations, using skills that they’ve learned here!
One fantastic example of the success that your support has fostered is Jed Moss. Just this month, Jed has been promoted from Assembly & Packaging III Team Lead to Customer Service Representative Commercial Products. After being referred by one of our staff to apply, Jed made the difficult decision to move from Marinette to Milwaukee and become a staff member in January of 2019. Since joining our team, Jed has said that “There is opportunity to advance here if you work hard; I appreciate that. I look at every job as a challenge. I always try to beat what I had done the day before.”
On behalf of our President & CEO, James Kerlin, all 118 Beyond Vision staff, our 12 board of directors, and countless volunteers and supporters, thank you to all of our clients, individual donors, and organizational funders!