Add a Line

How it Works: Create a donation line-item in your system. Encourage patients to make a donation. Patients may be especially willing to give in exchange for free services you normally offer.

• Create a line item for donations to OGS. You may also establish recommended donation amounts for free services you normally offer, such as eyeglass adjustments.
• Promote the program to your patients at the point of sale/service. Explain that their donation supports OGS’s projects that provide vision care and eyeglasses to those in need.
• Provide every donor with an OGS thank you card.
• Submit the proceeds to OGS monthly or quarterly.

Chip In

How it Works: Start using Chip In for your payment processing and Chip In will donate part of its profits to OGS. It’s a simple way to make monthly donations to OGS without impacting your practice revenue.

• For the past twelve years, Chip In.org has offered cost-saving credit card processing and donates to charitable organizations out of its portion of its processing fees. Chip In offers to “Meet or Beat” your existing processing program. This results in more profitability for your practice, usually with no need for new terminals or equipment. There is no cost to you. Just pick OGS as your chosen charity when signing up.
• Click here for an overview.
• For any questions or a no-cost comparison analysis of your current processor to Chip In, please click here, contact info@chip-in.org, or call Gregg Garfield at 818-981-6968, extension 3.

Get the Conversation Going

How it Works: Display the OGS Impact Map in a public place in your office. The map (shown right) highlights the areas in the world in which OGS projects have given the gift of sight to people in need. It’s a great way to start a conversation about OGS and why you support our work.

• In our ‘Join Us’ form, choose ‘Get the Conversation Going’ and we will send you a 16″x20″ unframed map for your office.
• Hang the map in a public area of your office, preferably one in which staff and patients interact.
• Ask your patients to download the QR code from the map to learn more about OGS and its work globally.

Donate a Day

How it Works: Donate exam fees from one day per month to OGS.

• Select one day each month to donate exam fees to OGS.
• On that day, display the sign included in the welcome kit to alert your patients that proceeds from the day’s exams will be donated to OGS.
• Give each patient that day an OGS thank-you card.
• Submit the proceeds to OGS monthly or quarterly.

Monthly Recurring Donations

How it Works: One of the simplest ways to support us is to set up a recurring monthly donation to OGS. It’s easy on your pocketbook and greatly reduces our administrative costs. Every donation counts!

• Visit our TEAM OGS donate page and select “monthly” from our secure payment page.

Pick a Pair (without impacting your practice revenue)

You want to increase your capture rate. And, patients want to feel valued and see that you’re making a positive impact in the world. With OGS’s Pick a Pair Program, you can easily do both.

How it Works: It’s so simple and hands-off!

• Just add a dollar or two to your eyeglass frames or select lines (you can easily do this globally through your system)
• Count up the number dispensed on a monthly or quarterly basis and donate the amount.
• Add a sentence at the bottom of your sales receipts to let your patients know about your generosity such as: ‘For every pair of glasses we dispense, we make a donation to Optometry Giving Sight to help provide eye exams and glasses to people in need around the world’.
• OGS will provide small cards you can place in glasses cases to let your patients know about your generosity, as well as other marketing material.

Donate Rebates and Rewards

Optometry Giving Sight benefits from contact lens rebate and rewards programs sponsored by CooperVision and Bausch + Lomb.

CooperVision Contact Lens Rebate Program

How it Works: CooperVision’s contact lens rebate program provides money back to patients who purchase a year’s supply of select lenses. During the rebate application process they have the option to donate all or a portion of their rebates to Optometry Giving Sight. We make it easy to inform patients of this option by providing you with stickers to be affixed to the contact lens packaging.

• Encourage patients who buy qualifying CooperVision contact lenses to purchase a year’s supply so they can take advantage of the rebate program.
• Place one of the provided information stickers on the contact lens packaging.
• Ask patients to consider donating their rebates to OGS to provide eye care to people in need. (They do this when submitting their rebate form.)

Bausch + Lomb’s Horizon Rewards Program

How it Works: Bausch + Lomb’s Horizon Rewards contact lens program provides points to patients who make a qualifying purchase of contact lenses. Patients can then designate that some or all of their points be donated to OGS. We make it easy to inform patients of this option by providing you with stickers to be affixed to the contact lens packaging.

• Encourage patients who buy qualifying contact lenses to register online for the Bausch + Lomb Horizons Program
• Place one of the provided information stickers on the packaging of the contact lens packaging.
• Ask patients to consider donating their reward points to OGS to provide eye care to people in need. (They do this when submitting their rebate form.)

Recycle Contacts Lenses and Related Materials

In partnership with Bausch + Lomb and TerraCycle, TEAM OGS offers you two ways to turn recycled contact lenses and related materials into donations to OGS.

Bausch + Lomb ONE by ONE Recycling Program (U.S. Practices Only)

How it Works: Collect used contact lenses, blister packs and other packaging (from any contact lens manufacturer.) Print a free shipping label and send the recyclables to Bausch + Lomb partner, TerraCycle. OGS then receives donations from the recycling program. When you register for the program, all recyclables returned to TerraCycle are turned into donations to Optometry Giving Sight (OGS). There is no cost to join, only a benefit for the environment and the local and global community – wherever OGS is supporting a program to end preventable blindness.

• Visit www.terracycle.com/bauschrecyclesinoffice to sign up for the recycling program. By signing up, the office can download free shipping labels to send used blister packs and solution bottles for recycling. In addition, the office will be listed as a drop off location for contact recycling – the office will be added to a locator map on www.terracycle.com/bauschrecycles which allows consumers to search their location to find an eye-care office that is collecting blister packs and solution bottles for recycling.
• Provide an OGS thank you card to each patient who recycles.
• Follow the directions on the website to send your recycling container to Terracycle and to request another recycling container.

Bausch + Lomb Biotrue® Eye Care Recycling Program (U.S. Practices Only)

How it Works: Collect all brands of contact lens cases, contact solution bottle caps, eye drop single dose vials, and Biotrue Hydration Boost Eye Drop bottles. Once your recycling box is full, print a label online and ship the items to TerraCycle. The points you earn can be redeemed for a donation to Optometry Giving Sight. There is no cost to join, only a benefit for the environment and the local and global community – wherever OGS is supporting a program to end preventable blindness.

• Visit https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/biotrue and click on Sign Up and Join Waitlist

  to sign up for the recycling program.

• Select Optometry Giving Sight as your charity of choice.
• Place a donation box in your office.
• Collect accepted materials until the box is full.
• Sign in to your TerraCycle account to print a free return label.
• Ship your recyclables free of charge.
• Provide an OGS thank you card to each patient who recycles.