This week we’re celebrating the incredible volunteers from one of our corporate partners, @kpmg .
Their team showed up all over the organization – transforming our GuildCare Adult Daycare center into a 5 star spa for Pamper Day (totally not jealous ), assisting our staff during a hands-on assistive technology workshop, and learning more about our community and other ways they can
get involved.
The smiles say it all, volunteers bring true joy to Lighthouse Guild.
Thank you for all the time and talents you provide!
Our 2026 5 Boro Bike Tour team was truly UNSTOPPABLE. We wanted to have the biggest team to date, and we succeeded by a mile - or 40 miles!
We also had the most low-vision and blind cyclists. This is our new normal. Congrats to our entire team, and thank you to our riders, volunteers and supporters.
#Unstoppable #LighthouseGuild
Great job Nev and Jeremy! Big thank you to @shannanferry and @ny1 for helping our riders show why this ride is so important to our community. Good luck on Sunday everyone riding! #NY1 #TDFBBT
Meet Judith - one of our amazing volunteers. Judith has been instrumental to our community for years, and was honored at Lighthouse Guild's 2026 Volunteer Recognition Night with an Excellence in Service Award. Thank you Judith, for showing up for our community.
Meet our newest board member. ✨
Kathryn Webster is a Principal at @kkr , an HBS MBA, and the founder of the @tad.foundation — and she’s joining the Lighthouse Guild Board of Directors.
Kathryn was the first totally blind person to earn an MBA from Harvard. She’s spent her career at the highest levels of finance and advocacy, proving what’s possible and building the road for others to follow.
We couldn’t be prouder to welcome her. 💙👤
Our volunteers don’t wear capes (at least not that we’ve seen). Some come from our corporate partners. Some just show up because they want to give back. But all of them are our heroes. Every day of the year our volunteers show up — reading, teaching, guiding, or just being there for our community.
Happy National Volunteer Week to the people who make Lighthouse Guild what it is. We see you, we appreciate you, and we wouldn't be the same without you.
National Volunteer Week may be coming to an end, but the appreciation doesn't stop here. 🎉 We can't wait to see our incredible volunteers face to face at our 2026 Volunteer Recognition Night next week!
🧡 #NationalVolunteerWeek #NVW2026
We’re still feeling inspired after this weekend’s incredible performance of Patterns by @axisdanceco at Lincoln Center. 💫
Through our growing collaboration with @lincolncenter , members of the blind and low vision community at Lighthouse Guild were welcomed with early access seating and real-time audio description to the performance — helping ensure a more inclusive and meaningful experience for everyone.
One attendee with low vision, but totally new to audio description, told us she was moved to tears by the performance combined with the additional audio – a true testament to the power of accessibility.
Thank you to the Lincoln Center team for your shared commitment to making the arts within reach our community. We’re excited for what’s ahead!
#Patterns #LincolnCenter
So excited to have Nev Schulman on our bike Tour team! Nev will be riding a tandem bike with our very own Jeremy Morak. The practicing has begun! Want to join the team? Check the link in bio!
#lighthouseguild
#unstpppable
The teens in Lighthouse Guild's Saturday Teen Program hit the wall this past Saturday 🧗
Our crew took over at @movementlic to try rock climbing for the first time, using audible cues from sighted volunteers to find their next hold. Shoutout to our friends at @paracliffhangers for showing them the ropes.
The verdict? These kids ROCK. Obviously. 😊
Huge thanks to STIG, Lighthouse Guild's proud sponsor of adaptive athletics, for making days like this possible.
Veronica came to the U.S. from Ghana at 38. She spent decades working to give her three children the education she never had. They became successful professionals in medicine, architecture and technology.
Then she lost her vision — and then her job and her home.
At 57, she walked into Lighthouse Guild and decided it was finally her turn to shine. Four years later, she passed her final GED exam — Science, the subject she feared most — with a college-ready score.
Yesterday, the same children she sacrificed everything for watched her receive her diploma.🎓
Veronica is one of six graduates from Lighthouse Guild's GED program — the largest class in the program's history. Each of them earned their High School Equivalency diploma through a program built from the ground up for students who are blind or have low vision.
Congratulations Veronica, Amanda, Frdous, Jamie, Vanessa, and Johnine. May this moment be the start of your next chapter. 👏
Terrell is BACK on Team Lighthouse Guild at the 2026 Five Boro Bike Tour!
Why? Because this team, this ride, is more than just 40 miles through NYC. It’s a chance to prove that
he’s UNSTOPPABLE.
He was inspired to get on a bike for the first time last year, after losing his
vision, and he never looked back.
You can join Terrell and the rest of our incredible team! Click the link in bio and pedal for a purpose this year!
#TeamLighthouseGuild #TD5BBT
