2025-2026 Board of Directors
- President, John Vezeau, Missouri
- Financial Secretary, John Vezeau, Missouri
- Executive Secretary, John Hauser, Iowa
- Treasurer, Karen Rudolph, Wisconsin
- Director, First Reader, Ellen Garrabrant, Virginia
- Assisting, First Reader, Dacia Blodgett-Williams, California
- Merchandise, Gabriela Conrad-Distasio, Virginia
- Director, Webmaster and Social Media, Kristina DeLosReyes, DelMar
- Assisting, Webmaster and Social Media, Kori Radloff, Nebraska
- Administrative Secretary, Donna Goede, Missouri
- Coordinators and Fundraising, Jennifer Ours, Wisconsin
- Fraternal Relations, Ray Bacchus, Virginia
- Jewelry and Incentives, Peggy Rendt, Washington
- Media, Tiffany Ingles, Indiana
- Member at Large, Todd Campbell, Wisconsin
- Member at Large, Jennifer Arruda, Missouri
Support Services and Special Projects Support Committee
- Assistant, First Reader, Claudia Hauser, Iowa
- Audiologist – Consultant, Diana Hanson, MS, CCC-A, Iowa
Can HIKE fund help to cover cost towards a cochlear implant? I have an Amish family who is in need of funding.
Diana, we do not provide grant awards for cochlear implant, due to the internal nature of the device. Our mission is to provide support for external assistive hearing devices and equipment.
Hello! I work in Early Intervention and I have a 5 month old born with microtia. Would you help with a BAHA? What if the family makes over the amount of money you say so they don’t qualify for assistance? Is there still a way to get assistance or do you know another organization that would help no matter how much the family makes? Thanks!
Karen, thank you for reaching out. We support hearing aids and assistive hearing devices or communication tools. Because BAHA is an implanted device, we do not provide financial support. We recently increased the maximum gross earned income amount to $125,000, so we would not be able to review applications over this amount. We encourage you to reach out to the NIDCD Information Clearinghouse for more resources: https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/clearinghouse.
Thank you for your response. Actually a BAHA is not a implanted device, it is a hearing aid just a bone conductive hearing aid. Thank you for the new information, we will check that out. And just out of curiosity, why is there a max income. Just because a family makes more money doesn’t mean that they have the means to buy a $8000 piece of hearing device that would benefit their child.
Hello,
My son has been diagnosed with auditory processing disorder. He has been taking therapy for that, and he just received low gain hearing aids that are paid for. We would like to continue his therapy, but we are running out of funds for that. Does the fund help with auditory processing therapy? He should not need many more months.
Hello! We can only pay for equipment, not for any medical procedures or therapies.
Would a family in Austin, Texas be able to utilize your program if they financially qualify? I do not see a Job’s daughters International Chapter in Texas.
We can provide grants children in the United States under the age of twenty who are U.S. citizens or those with permanent residency status if they meet the criteria and have not received a previous HIKE Award within the last four (4) years and who have been identified as 1) having a need for a hearing aid(s) or an assistive listening device and 2) having a financial need can benefit from HIKE. Subject to availability of funding. Applicants with a documented hearing loss are considered without regard to sex, race, religion, color, or creed.