Chris Tompkins wins Don Aldrich Advocacy Award

East Valley Living, AZ, USA
Thursday, October 25, 2007

Chris Tompkins wins Don Aldrich Advocacy Award

The community award winners include:

Chris Tompkins - Don Aldrich Advocacy Award

Chris Tompkins has a life-long commitment to advocacy for people with 
disabilities, particularly to the visually impaired. As executive director of 
the Foundation for Blind Children for two decades, Tompkins has helped the 
organization become the largest blind children's organization in the United 
States with a staff of 100 serving more than 1,700 clients annually. The agency 
serves children and adults who are blind and visually impaired and is the only 
one of its kind in Arizona.

In 2003, he received a fellowship with the Piper Fellows Program. After 
traveling throughout North America to learn about agencies that serve the 
visually impaired, he used these innovative ideas to expand and improve the 
foundation's services and programs. Tompkins' mission is to help every visually 
impaired person "learn all that they need to know to live the lives they choose 
for themselves."

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