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April, 2008
Star of Broadway’s GREASE, Laura Osnes, wants all optometrists to join Optometry Giving Sight’s World Sight Day Challenge to help give sight >more
March, 2008
EyeVis Eye and Vision Research Institute has become a National Supporter of Optometry Giving Sight in the United States >more
February, 2008
Optometry Giving Sight has appointed Victor Connors, O.D. as Chair of the global fundraising organization’s National Committee in the United States >more
January, 2008
Optometrists in Australia joined their colleagues in the US, UK and Canada and raised almost $250,000 by participating in the Optometry Giving Sight World Sight Day Challenge. >more
December, 2007
Optometry Giving Sight has committed to raising funds for projects that will provide eye care services for at least 5 million people over the next 3 years and train 700 new eye care professionals who will provide >more
December, 2007
Vision Source ODs and their staff continue to play a leading role in optometry's efforts to raise funds for people who are blind and vision impaired. >more December, 2007
Season of Giving: Make Optometry Giving Sight your Charity of Choice! >more
December, 2007
Practices all across the UK have shown their commitment to ending refractive error blindness in children by donating eye exam fees to Optometry Giving Sight as part of the World Sight Day Challenge. >more
November, 2007
Speaking at the American Academy of Optometry, the
Executive Chairman and CEO of Optometry Giving Sight, Professor Brien Holden,
announced that Optometry Giving Sight would disperse its first US$1,000,000 by >more
October, 2007
There are an estimated 13 million children worldwide who are blind or vision impaired simply because they do not have access to an eye exam and a pair of glasses. In fact, this is the leading cause of preventable blindness. >more October, 2007
60 optometrists from around Australia converged on the small town of Moss Vale in NSW to participate in the 6th Annual Moss Vale Golf Day on 24th September. Surpassing last year’s total, the event raised $4,000 for Optometry Giving Sight. >more September, 2007
The Contact Lens Society of Australia officially endorsed Optometry Giving Sight at the 12th Annual International Contact Lens Congress (ICLC) on the Gold Coast on the 3rd September. >more
September, 2007
Co-Founders, Al Berg and Larry Roth announced that Marchon Eyewear will become a Platinum National Sponsor of Optometry Giving Sight in the United States. >more
August, 2007
Dr. Moes Nasser of Houston, Texas, is the winner of a $2,000 travel grant from Optometry Giving Sight which will fund his participation in a Volunteer Project Team trip to Africa in 2008. >more
August, 2007
Nearly 20 CIBA Vision and Optometry Giving Sight employees and supporters braved “Heartbreak Hill” to compete in the annual Sydney “City to Surf” fun run on Sunday, 12 August, 2007. >more
July, 2007
Optometry Giving Sight announced that Bausch & Lomb UK has committed £12,000 to support the elimination of one of the leading causes of blindness and low vision globally >more
June, 2007
The Australasian College of Behavioural Optometrists (ACBO) has adopted Optometry Giving Sight as its International Charity of Choice. >more
May, 2007
The optical industry put competition briefly aside at the BCLA this year in a joint effort to endorse Optometry Giving Sight. >more May, 2007
World-renowned eye specialist Dr Gullapalli (Nag) Rao has told Australian optometrists that they have a leading role to play in the prevention of blindness. >more
May, 2007
Vision Source! Optometrists commit nearly $200,000 to Optometry Giving Sight’s Leaders Campaign. >more
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