News & Events

In honor of National Volunteer Week, meet the Ladd family. Whether they’re volunteering their time by raising Guiding Eyes puppies (14, to be exact!) or guiding our CEO Thomas Panek in the Boston [...]

MARCH 2018 GRADUATING CLASS Congratulations to Jules and Josie and the March 2018 graduating class. – Bob Rollmann and Cindy Sullivan, fosters for proud Dad, GEB Ingot.  Congratulations to all [...]

Meet May 2016 graduate Melissa Carney and her guide dog, yellow lab Aron. Melissa and her mother Kristine Carney presented Guiding Eyes with a $1,700 donation, raised by Kristine’s generous [...]

A message from graduate Richard Hunter:   Dear Athlete Friends with Vision Impairment, Every once in a while, I feel compelled to blast out an email to every visually impaired athlete I [...]

Litter of Aspiring Guide Dogs Named in Honor of Team USA Gold Medalists at the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympic Games   As the 2018 Winter Games came to a close, we wanted to make sure the [...]

Guiding Eyes is proud to announce that we’ve gone platinum: earning the GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency.  What does that mean? Not only are we as committed as ever to our mission of [...]

Best wishes and congratulations to the February 2018 class. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.”– Mark Twain -Tina and Frank Shevetone “My sunshine doesn’t [...]

Listen to Guiding Eyes for the Blind President and CEO Thomas Panek discusses pros and cons of working with a guide dog and how Guiding Eyes trains its guide dogs in an interview on Eyes on [...]

Eyes on Success talks with Thomas Panek, president of Guiding Eyes for the Blind, about a new skill for which his organization is training dogs – running with their blind owners. [...]

My wish for all of the graduates from the past, in the future, and those sitting here today is that with the new four legs that will now lead you, that the world becomes bigger, your feeling of [...]