UTICA — The Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI), a not-for-profit agency that serves people who are blind or visually impaired, announced it has launched the new CABVI Quest Program. The CABVI Quest Program is an “opportunity for employees to achieve upward mobility within the company and to learn more about CABVI […]
UTICA — The Central Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired (CABVI), a not-for-profit agency that serves people who are blind or visually impaired, announced it has launched the new CABVI Quest Program.
The CABVI Quest Program is an “opportunity for employees to achieve upward mobility within the company and to learn more about CABVI in ways they may have not yet discovered, or had a chance to do so,” the nonprofit said in a news release. Each month, Quest participants will meet to spend the day with their peers and listen to CABVI leaders or fellow employees discuss various aspects of day-to-day activities or tasks.
Participants were selected from all departments within the organization at its production and manufacturing facilities in Syracuse and Utica, and also at its contact center at Albany, Virginia.
The first meeting was held on Sept. 28 and reviewed the basics of CABVI such as the mission statement, core values, agency structure, and departmental dynamics, the release stated.
CABVI Quest participants will meet each month for the next 10 months and topics will include: business conduct and code of ethics, human resources 101, assistive technology, and rehabilitation services, and management and leadership. When Quest participants applied to the program, they also noted which departments at CABVI they would like to learn more about and shadow for the day.
“Upward mobility and retention of employees within our CABVI family is very important to us all. We want our employees to be able to learn and grow and hope the CABVI Quest program allows Questers to achieve just that,” Jill Koch, chief financial officer at CABVI, and a CABVI Quest mentor, said in a release.
Utica–based CABVI, which is an affiliate of National Industries for the Blind, says it serves people who are blind or visually impaired, from newborns to the elderly, generally free of charge. CABVI’s vision-rehabilitation programs provide for more than 1,500 people who are blind or visually impaired in an eight-county area of upstate New York (Oneida, Herkimer, Madison, Fulton, Lewis, Montgomery, Jefferson, nd northern Otsego Counties).
CABVI reported $48.6 million in total operating revenue in 2015, up from $45.8 million in 2014, according to its 2015 annual report posted on its website. The nonprofit’s total employment was 252 at the end of last year.
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