AIDB Foundation

Visitors to our schools frequently comment on the love they feel there. Love from the students, from the teachers, from the staff. It's something that can't be communicated adequately through a website, but if you're lucky, you'll catch glimpses of it now and then. The children and adults we serve know how extraordinary AIDB is. We, in turn, are fully aware of how extraordinary our clients and students are, and how they've enriched our lives.

There are many remarkable things about AIDB. One of the most remarkable, however, is that we are able to provide such a high level of quality services at little or no cost to students and clients. This is possible in part because we are a state-funded organization.

But what lifts our programs beyond the ordinary is the generosity and vision of private donors, corporations and foundations. Since it was crated in 1980 the AIDB Foundation has generated gifts of more than $40 million to support AIDB’s mission of serving children and adults with hearing and vision loss. The Kiwanis Memorial Athletic Field, Hawkins Chapel, the Marianna Greene Henry Special Equestrian Arena, Centers of Excellence in Science and Language, independent living centers, recreation facilities, dormitories, Regional Centers, a track for multidisabled runners – not to mention classroom and assistive technology, arts and music programs, educational field trips, a multitude of extracurricular learning experiences and endowments for the future.

With your help, we are fostering a Living with Pride Campaign to renovate and replace aging dormitories across AIDB’s campuses. The Alfa Daniel Hall was dedicated last year on the Helen Keller School campus and a new Independent Living Center is nearing completion and will be dedicated soon on the Alabama School for the Blind campus. Current projects include plans for a new Band Hall on the ASB campus, meeting some equipment needs at our newly purchased facility at the Tuscaloosa Regional Center and our AIDB 150 Campaign.