Winter 2004

Help Create Fourteen New Jobs at the Lighthouse!

As you are aware from reading this issue, the Seattle Lighthouse for the Blind employs a number of people in the production of quality products for the U.S. government, including canteens and a line of hydration systems. Now, we have a chance to expand our production and our employment opportunities even further.

Today, seven out of every ten blind men and women are unemployed. The Seattle Lighthouse is committed to ending this inequity through expanding our employment and training opportunities any way we can.

Now we have an opportunity to create fourteen brand new positions for people who are visually impaired, blind and Deaf-Blind.

Here’s how we will do it. We will increase production and function at a higher capacity by purchasing a special new mold for our Injection Mold Department. This system will allow us to produce plastic parts for canteens and hydration systems that we sell to the U.S. military.

Through increasing production, we will create fourteen new jobs at the Lighthouse! In addition, surpluses from increased sales will go back into vocational training programs, providing even more opportunity for people who are blind to get the skills training needed to succeed in today’s job market.

You can help make this goal a reality by supporting the increase of job capacity through purchase of manufacturing equipment. Every dollar you give will go directly into purchasing the molding system and getting that much closer to employing fourteen blind and Deaf-Blind people and funding essential programs.

By supporting the creation of jobs and helping to increase funding for training, you make a solid dent in the 70% unemployment rate for blind people. You promote opportunity, advancement and independence of people who are blind, Deaf-Blind and blind with other disabilities.

If you would like to help the Lighthouse provide fourteen new employment opportunities, please go to the “Get Active -Give Generously” link on the Seattle Lighthouse website: www.seattlelighthouse.org/give

 Lighthouse Extends Thanks to Manufacturing Equipment Donors

The Lighthouse offers its heartfelt gratitude to those donors who have already contributed to the purchase of new manufacturing equipment, increasing job opportunities and funding for training programs:

James Adams
Karen Amoroso
Harry Arnett
Lori Bartie
Thomas Bligh
Rudolph Braycich
Mildred Brownell
Joseph Budge
Robert Burr
Donald Carrington
Thomas Chandler
Glen Cook
Margarita Eng
Elmer Felton
Marcia Finseth
Verna Florov
Carlyne Fredericks
Cy Garnett
Victor Gross
Bruce Hall
Conrad Hanson
Leonila Herrero
Allan Hokanson
John Hollstein
Frank Isik
Rhonda Jacobs
Katrina Jarman
Keith Jephcott
William Katsarsky
Sarah Kinnan
Alfred Lede
James Lee
Olga Leon
Rod Linkous
Frances Mairs
Lawrence Mayer
Charles Mayes
William Monroe
Maurice Nelson
Sally Ofstad
Phyllis Orrico
Lois Park
Homer Peterson
Roland Ramsey
Ralph Robinson
Payman Shamsollahi
Neil Sharp
Andrea Skinner
Walter Speiser
Kathleen Steenbock
Sheldon Steinberg
Elaine Stevens
Fern Stocking
Ellen Storm
Joanna Sutherland
Thomas Tanigawa
Gladys Van Buskirk
Suzy Wakefield
Robert White
Margaret Whitlock
Earl Wymore
Oard Yoder

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