Welcoming Nikki Earich as our Development Director, North America
We are pleased to announce the appointment of Nikki Earich as our Development Director, North America. In her new role, Earich is responsible for developing and managing the organization’s fundraising initiatives, while building and strengthening partnerships with optometric practices, eye care professionals, and other key industry stakeholders.
OGS Selects FluoreSCENE Media as Official Social Media Partner & Becomes Charity of Choice for the ODs on Facebook Community
Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) has selected FluoreSCENE Media as its official social media partner to help expand the organization’s reach with eye care professionals as the charity of choice for the ODs on Facebook Community.
2022 Year In Review
2022 Year in Review – Your Support Made a Difference! These projects were supported in 2022:
Partenariat élargi entre Optometry Giving Sight & VuePoint IDS
VuePoint IDS fournira plus de 100 000 $ en publicités à Optometry Giving sight pour l’année 2023 seulement, dans l’ensemble de ses publications imprimées et numériques du magazine Optik ainsi que dans sa plateforme d’éducation continue en ligne Clinical & Refractive Optometry. Ces publicités permettront à Optometry Giving Sight d’atteindre un public auquel elle n’avait pas accès auparavant.
Expanded Partnership between Optometry Giving Sight & VuePoint IDS
VuePoint IDS will provide more than $100,000 of in-kind advertising to OGS in 2023 alone, across all of its Optik print and digital publications, as well as its Clinical & Refractive Optometry online continuing education platform, enabling OGS to reach an audience it may not have had easy access to before.
Optometry Giving Sight Grants Over $800,000 in Project Funding for 2021!
YOU Make a Difference – Meet Yamilet from Mexico!
At her primary school in Cienega de Zimatlan, Mexico, Yamilet Castellanos struggled to see her books and the whiteboard at the front of the class. Both her parents suspected Yami, as her parents call her, had an eye problem but were unable to access vision care services due to their extremely limited resources.
YOU Make a Difference – Meet the Graduates!
Donations to Optometry Giving Sight make an impact by giving sight to people in need through the projects we fund. One of our funding priorities is to train local people as optometrists in the communities in which they live, all over the world. One of the most successful optometry schools we fund is in Mzuzu, Malawi.
Faire le don de la vue au Népal
Optometry Giving Sight est fière de s’associer à des organisations mondiales dans le but de financer des projets de prévention de la cécité et des déficiences visuelles. La fondation Seva est l’une de ces organisations. Dans le cadre de son projet intitulé Eyeglasses in Nepal Project, la fondation Seva a comme objectif d’accroître l’offre de services de correction des erreurs de réfraction ainsi que l’accès aux services offerts par des personnes qualifiées qui fournissent des lunettes de bonne qualité. Alisha fait partie des personnes qui bénéficient de ce projet. Alisha est âgée de 10 ans, elle est en 4e année et elle vit avec sa mère et sa sœur cadette.
You Make a Difference! Giving Sight in Nepal
Optometry Giving Sight is proud to partner with organizations on a global level to provide funding for projects needed to reduce preventable blindness and impaired vision. One such organization is the Seva Foundation. Their Eyeglasses in Nepal Project seeks to address the need for increased refractive error services and to increase access to service points supplied with good quality eyeglasses which are staffed by qualified individuals. Alisha is one recipient of this project. She is a 10-year old girl in 4th grade who lives with her mother and little sister. Her family has a difficult life in Jorsalle due to divorce, health problems and unemployment.