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The Foreseeable Future Foundation Announces 2021 Funding Recipients

By Mervin Hernandez / September 12, 2021 September 12, 2021 / Press Release

Organizations awarded for adaptive sporting events The Foreseeable Future Foundation released its 2021 Funding Program recipients. Funding was awarded to both groups and individuals in the visually impaired and blind community who exemplified the core values the foundation holds. With an overwhelming amount of applications this year, the foundation was able to award financial compensation …

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The Cool Sport: FFF Supports NY Metro Blind Hockey

By Quinn Burkhart / September 4, 2021 September 4, 2021 / Uncategorized

3 Hockey Players in full hockey gear stand on the ice with their hockey sticks.Their jersey’s read “NY Metro Blind Hockey”

The Foreseeable Future Foundation helps Metro Blind Hockey improve experiences for blind athletes.

Melissa Blume, Our Real Life Superhero

By Griffin Pinkow / February 27, 2021 February 27, 2021 / Funding Recipients

Photo of Melissa and fellow hockey team mate on the ice practicing.

We are lucky enough to live in a world where we have real-life superheroes, and the Foreseeable Future Foundation has the opportunity to help those heroes along the way. Melissa Blume may not be saving people out of burning buildings or fighting crime, but she is setting her own type of precedent as a blind …

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Three Cheers for Miah Konklin

By June Converse / December 30, 2020 December 30, 2020 / Funding Recipients

photo of miah k as the top of a cheerleading pyramid stunt

Miah Konklin is a delightful, articulate, enthusiastic young woman. When she was a child, she loved to read. She’d go to the library, ask the librarian for a suggestion and bury her face in the book. When Miah was in fourth grade, her mother noticed Miah was bringing the book closer and closer to her …

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Camp Abilities Florida 2019

By June Converse / November 23, 2020 November 23, 2020 / Funding Recipients

title image of children outdoors with the title of camp abilities north florida

Three New Sports! Camp Abilities is an educational sports camp for children who are visually impaired, blind, or deafblind. Camp Abilities opened its first camp on the campus of SUNY in Brockport, New York in 1996. One of the most exciting aspects of Camp Abilities is the one-to-one counselor to camper ratio. Each camper is …

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Speaker Panel – Making An Impact In The Community

By Mervin Hernandez / August 19, 2020 September 3, 2020 / Uncategorized

featured image for the speaker panel from August 2019 featuring Wendy, Mark, and Ted

Foreseeable Future hosted a second speaker panel, this time featuring the founders and directors from Envision Blind Sports and NY Metro Blind Hockey, two organizations whose mission is to improve the lives of the visually impaired. Host Mark Farrell got the incredible success stories from Wendy Fagan and Ted Caputo on their journey, the success …

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Markeith Price – Desert Challenge Games

By Griffin Pinkow / July 24, 2020 July 24, 2020 / Uncategorized

At the Foreseeable Future Foundation, it is very exciting when we get a chance to give back to the community, especially when it is someone like Markeith Price. Not only is Markeith an incredible athlete, he devotes a lot of his time bettering the world around him. Markeith Price is a Paralympic athlete that recently …

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Athletes Panel – Overcoming Obstacles

By Mervin Hernandez / June 5, 2020 November 17, 2020 / Uncategorized

featured image for the post of the athlete virtual panel

The Foreseeable Future Foundation hosted its first virtual panel discussion, Overcoming Obstacles in Sports. Sponsored by Swerve Fitness visit https://www.swervefitness.com/ The event featured stories of athletes with visual impairments and blindness who the foundation has impacted. Watch the video on demand below Host Mark Farrell Mark is a passionate Motivational Speaker, award winning New York …

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Kyle’s Endurance Run

By Griffin Pinkow / February 28, 2020 February 28, 2020 / Funding Recipients

Kyle Robidoux is the first blind athlete to start in the Western States Run, which is a 100-mile trail race filled with steep slopes, peaking roots, and even snow. His love for sports has been in him since childhood, but it wasn’t always a passion he followed. Like many people who lose their sight over …

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Equestrian Wren Zimmerman

By Griffin Pinkow / November 28, 2019 January 14, 2020 / Funding Recipients

photo of wren on a horse caught in mid air jumping bar obstacles

The Foreseeable Future Foundation had the amazing opportunity to sponsor an up and coming Equestrian queen, Wren Zimmerman, for the Kentucky Summer Classic in Lexington, Kentucky. This is an extremely competitive horse show event where the majority of the riders are able-bodied. Our spotlight athlete Wren, fortunately, won’t let that additional obstacle get in her …

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