FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
RICHMOND, VA., January 28, 2025 — UZURV, the Adaptive Transportation Network Company and Assisted Mobility Platform, announces its commitment as a Platinum Sponsor of the VisionServe Alliance (VSA) for 2025. This partnership will help expand VSA’s mission of supporting organizations that work to overcome challenges faced by individuals who are blind or have low vision.
VisionServe Alliance is a collaborative network of advocacy groups, service providers, businesses, healthcare organizations, educators, and sports organizations, all dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with vision loss. The sponsorship will empower VSA to extend its reach, fostering greater impact across the nation for its alliance members.
“We are honored to have UZURV’s support for our mission,” said Lee Nasehi, President and CEO of VisionServe Alliance. “Their sponsorship will be used to strengthen the work of the alliance, through events, knowledge sharing, and consulting, all focused on improving the lives of individuals with blindness and vision loss.”
“Nurturing strong networks that erase barriers and promote opportunities for people with disabilities and older adults to maintain independence and personal autonomy is at the heart of both VisionServe Alliance and UZURV,” said Ned Freeman, CEO of UZURV. “We are proud to support VSA’s advocacy and innovative work, and we look forward to working together to improve transportation options for the blind and low-vision communities.”
As part of the sponsorship, UZURV and VSA will jointly focus on advancing accessible transportation solutions, helping to ensure that individuals with vision loss can more easily navigate their communities and access essential services.
About VisionServe Alliance
VisionServe leads an alliance of more than 130 member organizations that vastly improve the lives of people with blindness and low vision. VisionServe Alliance collaborates with leaders to enhance the health of the BVI field by maximizing engagement with life-changing vision rehabilitation training and services, addressing strategic issues, impacting the field, cultivating leadership, enhancing management systems, sharing best practices, increased capacity-building and sustainability, informing public policy, developing groundbreaking data reports highlighting profound issues impacting people with blindness and vision loss, and more. VisionServe Alliance also leads the Aging and Vision Loss National Coalition (AVLNC), a consortium of leaders advocating for the needs of adults 65+ with blindness and low vision.
About UZURV
Mobility independence is for everyone. UZURV helps communities lower the cost of transportation for people with mobility challenges – while delivering much more reliable, timely service that appropriately meets the needs of each rider. The UZURV Assisted Mobility Platform simplifies the operation and management of onboarding, managing compliance, dispatching, and monitoring assisted community mobility services. The platform provides powerful program management and reporting tools for mobility management, transportation systems, and service providers, including UZURV’s own Adaptive Transportation Network (Adaptive TNC) service model. UZURV’s Adaptive TNC onboards fully FTA-compliant drivers for ADA Paratransit and rider choice programs. UZURV holds contracts for assisted community mobility services with more than 35 organizations across the United States, including five of the top ten largest ADA paratransit programs by rider volume. UZURV was founded in 2017 and is based in Richmond, Va. For more information about UZURV, visit https://uzurv.com/.