Optometry Giving Sight sets fundraising goal for World Sight Day Challenge

Article

Optometry Giving Sight invites the global eye care community to take part in the seventh annual World Sight Day Challenge throughout September and October 2014. World Sight Day is Thursday, October 9.

Golden, CO-Optometry Giving Sight invites the global eye care community to take part in the seventh annual World Sight Day Challenge throughout September and October 2014. World Sight Day is Thursday, October 9.

Optometry Giving Sight launches in Mexico

World Sight Day Challenge is the largest annual global fundraising campaign to address avoidable blindness caused by uncorrected refractive error.

The organization set a fundraising target of $1 million in 2014. Optometry Giving Sight says participants can make a fundraising pledge, or a monthly or annual donation on or before World Sight Day. Optometry practices and optical companies can also be creative and engage patients, customers, and employees with fundraising events throughout the challenge period. 

Newsletter

Want more insights like this? Subscribe to Optometry Times and get clinical pearls and practice tips delivered straight to your inbox.

Recent Videos
2 experts in this video
2 experts in this video
Dan Ignaszewski, executive director of the Alliance for Eye and Vision Research and the National Alliance for Eye and Vision Research, provides insight into the new campaign and how to get involved.
© 2025 MJH Life Sciences

All rights reserved.