Community Advisory Boards

Friends of VISIONS who want to help promote the issues important to the organization and to assist in raising funds to support those activities lend their assistance by becoming members of VISIONS Advisory Boards. Advisory Boards are organized by borough, with each advisory board assuming responsibility for representing VISIONS at community events and soliciting contributors for annual fundraising events, and for helping us "open doors," to individuals who are blind or visually impaired.

Advisory Boards reach out through organizations, businesses and individual relationships to increase awareness about VISIONS and its free services for blind and visually impaired persons of all ages.

Advisory Board Leadership

Bronx-Westchester:
Co-Chair – Daniel Bernstein
Co-Chair – Doris Varlese

Brooklyn
Chair – Nandanie Appana
Vice-Chair – Mike Berman

Manhattan
Chair – Marc Goldstein
Vice Chair – Ananth Sampathkumar

Queens
Chair – Stephanie Belanich

Staten Island
Co-Chair – Jacqueline Armani
Co-Chair – Annamarie Kaplon

For more information on the Advisory Boards or to join one in your neighborhood or where you work, contact

Email:

Amy Gordon (Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan): amygor2@aol.com
Doreen DiLeonardo (Queens): doreendileonardo@gmail.com
Gina Schlagel (Staten Island): gschlagel@visionsvcb.org