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NJFFB Representatives Appeared on WFME TV
NJFFB’s Iris Torres, Executive Director, and Alan Graham, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, were the featured guests on Community Impact, a public affairs show hosted by Jay Trelease, on WFME/TV Channel 66 on May 15th at 3:30 PM and 8:30 PM. Iris and Alan spoke about the growing number of visually impaired adults, and how NJFFB's new One-day Essential Low Vision program can provide immediate help.
Below: In this 5 minute clip, Iris Torres speaks about how depression is common among people who have incurred vision loss, and how NJFFB's new One Day Essential Program can provide immediate help. To watch all four video clips please see the NJFFB YouTube page.
To view the show in it's entirety, please see the Community Impact site (Quicktime required) at:
http://www.wfme.net/community_impact/community_impact.html
This radio version of this show aired on May 8th. Click or enter on the following link to listen: Audio link NJFFB on WFME
One-Day Essential and Summer 2010 Sessions
We are currently accepting registration forms for our Ten-Day summer 2010 session, as well as our One-Day Essential program.
In order to provide our popular Ten-Day Program during the summer, all students will attend classes on both Mondays and Thursdays for five weeks. Classes will run from July 12 to August 12 at the same affordable, flat fee as our winter and spring sessions. Everyone likes to relax and have fun in the summer, so be sure to enroll in one of our new, stress-reducing classes, such as African Drum Circle, Chorus, and Tai Chi.
If you would like to learn more about registration information for the One-Day Essential, the Ten-Day Summer 2010 session, transportation options, or in-depth course descriptions, please contact our student services coordinator by phone at 973-627-0055 ext 312 or by email at student_services@njffb.org .
Jane Greenwald Named to NJFFB Board
Jane Greenwald of Short Hills, has been appointed a member
of the NJFFB Board of Trustees. Ms. Greenwald is a Partner in the global executive search firm,
Amrop Battalia Winston. The Firm has seven offices in the US, and 82 global offices.
It specializes in retained search for executive level individuals in a wide variety of
industries and functions.
Prior to her search career, Ms. Greenwald founded the College Bound Advisory Services, was the Director of Corporate Relations for Wagner College where she was responsible for seeking corporate and individual grants, and a Work-Study Coordinator in the Financial Aid Office of Bloomfield College.
“NJFFB touches my heart in that its program combines my love of teaching with the knowledge that adults with vision loss have few options in this world if they do not have the skills that this organization delivers,” said Ms. Greenwald. “I look forward to helping them succeed in bringing more resources to their efforts.”
Ms. Greenwald holds a Master of Science in Education in Personnel Services from Monmouth University and a Bachelor of Science in History from New York University. She began her career as a high school history teacher. Ms. Greenwald is a past President of the Millburn Short Hills Scholastic Boosters, a fund raising organization providing college scholarships to students and she is a member of the Scholarship and Development Committee of the Executive Women of New Jersey.
Ms. Greenwald has been a resident of Millburn/Short Hills for 30 years.