By Staff
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 12:24 AM
NEW YORK—Ahead of Pride Month in June, seven
CFDA eyewear designers are uniting to launch the third annual edCFDA Pride Eyewear Initiative. The designers will each offer a limited edition sunglass design, with a portion of the proceeds collectively benefiting Bring Change to Mind.
By Staff
Friday, March 8, 2024 12:15 AM
NEW YORK—The
Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award gala, to be held on March 14, 2024, will honor a variety of leading professionals in the optical industry. The event will once again be held at 583 Park Avenue, New York, N.Y.
By Staff
Thursday, March 7, 2024 12:24 AM
NEW YORK—Organizers of next Friday’s Rock4Sight fundraiser are making final preparations for their last show in New York, which they said is shaping up to be the best in their long-running series of annual fundraisers at the
Hard Rock Café. The event will relocate to Orlando, Fla., in 2025, along with Vision Expo East. As with previous Rock4Sight shows, this one will benefit
ECN Purpose, a 501c3 charity dedicated to providing eye health education and connection to vision care to the underserved. Proceeds from the prior shows have been used to finance a
mobile eye health program and vision van that serves schools in Orange County, Calif.
By Staff
Friday, March 1, 2024 12:18 AM
HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.—
ClearVision Optical, in collaboration with the
Optical Women’s Association (OWA), is announcing the launch of the ClearVision-Adira Grants program to facilitate personal and professional development for women in the optical industry.
By Staff
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 12:21 AM
LONDON—The
International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness is still accepting nominations for the IAPB Young Systems Leader Awards, a new initiative designed to empower and amplify the voices of early-career professionals driving transformative change in eye health.
By Staff
Friday, February 9, 2024 12:21 AM
CHICAGO—
Prevent Blindness, the nation’s leading nonprofit eye health and safety organization, is preparing the public to safely experience the total solar eclipse that will take place on April 8, 2024 with the
Prevent Blindness Eclipse + Your Eyes program.
By Staff
Monday, January 29, 2024 12:27 AM
CHICAGO—
Prevent Blindness, the nation’s leading eye health and safety nonprofit organization, has declared February as Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Low Vision Awareness Month. The group is offering a variety of free educational resources to the public and professionals, including
fact sheets and social media
graphics in English and Spanish, dedicated online resources and informative videos. AMD is a retinal disease that affects part of the back of the eye called the macula.
By Staff
Friday, January 26, 2024 12:18 AM
NORWALK, Conn.—
L’Amy America is announcing a partnership with
Bosma Enterprises, an Indianapolis-based nonprofit organization that provides employment and training for people who are blind and visually impaired.
By Staff
Thursday, January 25, 2024 12:15 AM
CHICAGO—The
National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness (NCCVEH) is celebrating its 15th Anniversary in 2024. Throughout the year, the NCCVEH will be providing a variety of free resources to parents, partner organizations, and health care professionals, in a celebration of its 15 year anniversary.
By Staff
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 12:24 AM
CHICAGO—Tickets and sponsorships are still available for the
2024 Person of Vision Award, honoring Ed Buffington, president and CEO of
GPN Technologies. Prevent Blindness will also be giving special recognition to
20/20 Magazine in celebration of its 50th Anniversary of publication during the event. The Person of Vision Award gala will be held on March 14, 2024, at
583 Park Avenue, New York City, in conjunction with
Vision Expo East. The Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award recognizes an individual, corporation and/or organization whose inspired outlook champions healthy vision and its importance for a healthy life.
By Staff
Tuesday, January 23, 2024 12:18 AM
MAUI—
Maui Jim has announced its support of
VOSH/International (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity) and its US VOSH and SVOSH (Student VOSH) chapters across 28 countries with a donation of 200,000 eyewear frames intended to restore sight to impacted individuals in need of prescription glasses.
By Staff
Tuesday, January 16, 2024 12:18 AM
NEW YORK—Rock4Sight 2024 will be back at the Hard Rock Café here on Friday, March 15 to raise funds for
ECN Purpose, a 501c3 charity dedicated to providing eye health education and a connection to vision care for those who are underserved.
By Staff
Friday, January 5, 2024 12:18 AM
NEW YORK—On January 4, the optical community observed World Braille Day, which is celebrated on the birthday of Louis Braille, who invented Braille code.
By Staff
Friday, December 15, 2023 12:18 AM
SAN FRANCISCO—
RestoringVision has expanded and completed the formation of its leadership team with the addition of Fredric Lomangino, new vice president of people, along with other vital roles added what the group said is a time of critical growth and global expansion of the organization’s team, programs and impact.