Who We Serve

The Houston Delta Gamma Foundation benefits the blind and visually impaired by funding research to prevent blindness, providing low vision and educational aids, helping with needed medical intervention and counseling, participating in cultural enrichment, funding vision examinations, corrective equipment and lenses and providing equipment for vision examinations. The Foundation is uniquely flexible in providing this support.

YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS MAKE THIS POSSIBLE

 

Our Grant Recipients:

Beep Baseball Association, Greater Houston
Facilitating and providing the adaptive version of America’s favorite pastime for the blind, low-vision and legally blind since 1976

 

Blinded Veterans Association, Greater Houston
Mission: To promote the welfare of blinded veterans so that, notwithstanding their disabilities, they may take their rightful place in the community and work with their fellow citizens toward the creation of a peaceful world; to preserve and strengthen a spirit of fellowship among blinded veterans so that they may give mutual aid and assistance to one another; and to maintain and extend the institutions of American freedom and to encourage loyalty to the Constitution and laws of the United States and of the States in which they reside. We will be there with encouragement and support, to ensure no blinded veteran is left behind.

 

Guide Dogs of Texas
Helping Blind Texans to increase their freedom, mobility and independence

Amanda and Bell (a yellow lab) waiting before they cross the road.
A yellow lab puppy posing in his guiding gear
Ruth and Ivan (a yellow lab) shopping at HEB
A mixed group of guide dogs posing like a winning sports team on a field. the banner behind them reads: Guide Dogs of Texas
A litter of young Yellow Labrador Retriever puppies spilling out of a basket onto a fluffy blanket.

 

Houston Area Visually Impaired Network (H.A.V.I.N.)
HAVIN is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization comprised of various volunteer groups from across Houston that serve the information, resource, and support needs of the visually impaired. Our vision is to educate, provide peer support and unify the visually impaired community in the Greater Houston area.

Mission: To provide training, education, workshops, seminars, and mentorship to the visually impaired Community,  providing skills and resources to help individuals live full and independent lives.

 

iBUG Today
iBUG Today, Inc. is a non-profit organization promoting the individual independence, social integration, and educational development of the blind and visually impaired community across the country through accessible technology training

 

Legacy Community Health (Frost Eye Clinic)
Legacy’s Frost Eye Clinic offers a complete range of high-quality, highly professional services and products designed to help everyone in the community look at their world in a better, clearer way.

 

The Lighthouse of Houston
The Lighthouse of Houston offers a wide variety of educational programs, community services and outpatient rehabilitation for the blind and visually impaired.

 

Prevent Blindness
Our mission is to prevent blindness and preserve sight.

 

Change Perceptions. Remove Stigma. Eliminate Barriers.
The ReelAbilities Houston Film & Arts Festival promotes inclusion and celebrates the lives, stories and talents of people with disabilities, making an impact that lasts far beyond the Festival.

 

Retina Research Foundation
The mission of the Retina Research Foundation is to reduce retinal blindness worldwide by funding programs in research and education. As a public charity, RRF raises funds from the private sector and the investment of its endowment funds.

 

UT Health (Cizik Eye Clinic Low Vision)
(Formerly the Hermann Eye Center) is dedicated to: Providing the best eye care possible in a personalized setting; Acting as a center for the referral of difficult cases; Caring for indigent patients with serious eye problems; Teaching ophthalmology at all levels; Being innovative in diagnosis and treatment; Making a flexible environment capable of adapting to change; Developing basic and clinical research programs; Providing patient education, rehabilitation and social counseling

 

Taping for The Blind (Sight Into Sound)
Sight into Sound is an independent non-profit organization with a mission to Turn Sight into Sound, enriching the lives of individuals with visual, physical and learning disabilities. We do this through our Radio Reading, Custom Recording and Audio Description services.

 

Sight Savers America
Sight Savers America is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that works to identify and secure the eye care needs of children, from their first pair of eyeglasses to extensive sight-saving treatment and high-tech vision aids for those with severe visual impairment.

 

University of Houston College of Optometry
Seeing the best for Texans:   Committed to providing quality vision care to the greater Houston and Dallas community