Sights for Hope honored its 2023 volunteer excellence award recipients this week during its second annual Team Recognition Luncheon. The luncheon was held at The Phoenix facility in Nazareth, PA, to commemorate National Volunteer Week. It highlighted the efforts of Sights for Hope’s 58 active volunteers, including members of its Board of Directors, and its […]
When times get tough, one can do the same thing, do less of that thing, stop doing that thing completely, or do that thing more smartly. In a tightening economy, it is exceptionally important for philanthropists to make the most efficient use of the contributions they make. A gift to Sights for Hope is one of the smartest, most efficient gifts that one can make because we generate verifiable, real-world results with relatively modest spends of money. […]
Sights for Hope Executive Director and CEO Dennis Zehner has been elected Board Secretary of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind (PAB), which represents organizations that serve people with visual impairments throughout the state. Zehner will serve a two-year term as Secretary and will be a member of the board’s Executive Committee. He also serves […]
The Morning Call published this editorial from Dennis Zehner, Executive Director and CEO of Sights for Hope, in its print newspaper and on its website on May 11. While it will take decades to discover all the life-altering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, we know today that the destinies of hundreds of children in our […]
Dennis Zehner assumed the role as Executive Director of the Center for Vision Loss today as the agency began a new service year and initiated a critical effort to define how it will advance its mission. Zehner had been the organization’s Director of Advancement since 2018 and earned the additional title of Associate Director in […]
The Center for Vision Loss announced today that Executive Director Douglas Yingling will retire on June 30 and that Dennis Zehner, the agency’s Associate Director and Director of Advancement, will succeed him. The organization’s Board of Directors approved this leadership transition unanimously during its meeting last week. Yingling has been the agency’s Executive Director since […]
Dennis Zehner – a promotional ingenuity specialist with nearly 20 years of experience in nonprofit communications and fundraising – has been named Director of Development and Marketing for the Center for Vision Loss as of March 1. Zehner operated his own company, EmpowerStar Enterprises, on a full-time basis in 2017. Since launching EmpowerStar in 2013, […]