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g i v i n g g u i d e 2014 www.HartfordBusiness.com November25,2014•Hartford Business Journal 23 Goals • Expand the use of collaborative partnerships: CRIS Radio counts numerous collaborative partnerships within the business, government, and nonprofit sectors, such as several broadcast organizations, health care facilities and schools. • Research and explore broadcast and information technologies and changing trends in communication delivery methods: CRIS continues to integrate new technologies, such as the creation of the CRIS Radio mobile app and other Internet technologies as a way to increase and improve the delivery of our audio recordings. • Explore regional and national expansion of audio access services: CRIS offers some unique programs, such as our CRISKids for Schools programming, CRIS en Español, CRISAccess (museums) and CRIS Streaming to assisted living facilities and senior centers, all of which are generating interest and use outside Connecticut. • Expand educational offerings for children: CRIS continues to expand its CRISKids™ for Schools Audio Library, the most extensive line up of audio recordings featuring human narration in the nation. The library includes children's magazines, text from the Common Core State Standards and custom recordings requested by teachers to meet the specific needs of their students with print challenges. • Expand our non-traditional business opportunities: CRIS will expand its Spanish-language audio library for Spanish speakers with print disabilities and also expand its CRISAccess™ (museum) program in which CRIS provides an audio version of the displayed exhibit sign, an audio description of the exhibit and information about tactile opportunities at the exhibit. CRISAccess is based on a focus group of people who are blind who were convened by the Smithsonian. • Maintain the CRIS core sustainability initiatives: CRIS has implemented new fee-for-service initiatives, such as annual subscriptions to our CRISKids for Schools, CRISKids and CRIS Streaming. aBout us Year Established: 1978 Total Number of Employees: 4 ft/3pt Annual Revenue: $515,350 GeoGraphic service area(s) Statewide; Streaming is available Worldwide. top fundinG sources State of Connecticut, Bureau of Education and Services for the Blind 16% The Gibney Family Foundation 10% Rita F. Madigan Trust 10% Hartford Foundation for Public Giving 9% Lions Clubs of Connecticut 7% Vice Chair chief William (Bill) h. austin Capitol region Council of Governments James (Jim) Babb British airways (retired) doris m. Battle Community renewal Team, Inc. Treasurer richard B. hurley dexter Corporation (retired) Secretary Bryanne kelleher Shipman & Goodwin michael J. marino Connecticut dept. Social Services (retired) marlyn i. miranda andrew mccall norton Connecticut Bureau of Education and Services for the Blind — BESB david J. schoenewolff Hartford Financial (retired) regina a. strand, od Totalvision stephen thal Connecticut Bureau of Education and Services for the Blind — BESB (retired) paul a. young Connecticut division of Special revenue (retired) BOard MEMBErS EMErITIS Jean festa, mph, otr/l Masonic Healthcare Center (retired) thomas (tom) Grossi Connecticut Bureau of Education and Services for the Blind — BESB (retired) Wayne mulligan Buckley radio (retired) pdG robert (Bob) tourville CT Yankee atomic Power Co. (retired) malcolm (mal) Gill Easter Seals (retired) Executive Director diane Weaver dunne Chairman michael maughan Connecticut radio Information System Inc. (CrIS radio) 315 Windsor ave., Windsor, CT 06095 | 860-527-8000 www.crisradio.org OUr MISSION: CRIS provides quality audio access services for people who are blind or print-challenged. " " [C RIS Radio] is wonderful. I'm not really being able to read a newspaper anymore, so I listen to CRIS Radio. It is something that has attached me to the outside world. It has given me access to what is going on in the world. CRIS is about accessibility. I am very grateful to people (at CRIS), Lou Morando and others at CRIS whom I speak with. CRIS Radio is more than a radio. It is people who make my life more worth living; it's not just the equipment, but the people at CRIS who are thoughtful and give of themselves. Life is sweet and in the end, it is really about family, friends and the people who give of themselves. – steve korn , a CrIS listener from Stamford. (Top) CrIS volunteer and listener, diane duhaime, produces a live afternoon news program with volunteer readers Sue Carey, left, and ruth Foxman. Pictured with duhaime is her guide dog, Iroc. (above, left) local celebrities paired with professional dancers with arthur Murray dance Studios competed in CrIS radio's own version of dancing with the Stars in april. From left, back row: Todd Piro, NBC CT; Tal dvoretsky, arthur Murray Studios; Paul Marte, The Bushnell; lacey Escobales, arthur Murray; Sally Nasatka, arthur Murray Studios; Billy Johnstone, Broadway actor (CaTS); Josh Kassoy, arthur Murray Studios; Courtney Zieller, WFSB; Yvette Chung, arthur Murray Studios, Jose vega, co-host of "viva Hartford" and manager of the McKinney Shelter. row one, from left; Kaitlyn Tarpey, Miss Connecticut; and Moises Guerrero, arthur Murray Studios. (above, right) Noel listens to CrISKids™ from his patient room at Connecticut Children's Medical Center. Board of directors