Eye Diseases & Vision Impairments

Cure Glaucoma and restore vision through innovative research.

THE MISSION OF THE ORF IS TO RECEIVE AND MAINTAIN FUNDS THAT ARE USED EXCLUSIVELY TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE, SCIENTIFIC, OR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES OF THE BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE IS THE DEPARTMENT OF OPHTHALMOLOGY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE.

EVERSIGHT OHIO PARTNERED WITH OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN NORTHEAST OHIO TO BRING THE TRANSPLANT GAMES OF AMERICA TO CLEVELAND IN JUNE 2016. THE TRANSPLANT GAMES DREW A CROWD OF NEARLY 7,000 ATTENDEES TO DOWNTOWN CLEVELAND DURING THE 4 DAY EVENT. THE GAMES HONOR THE LIVES OF EYE, ORGAN AND TISSUE DONORS AND SHOWCASE THE IMPORTANCE OF TRANSPLANTATION. THIS WAS THE SECOND TIME CORNEAL RECIPIENTS WERE INVITED TO PARTICIPATE IN THE GAMES. OUR PARTICIPATION SHOWED THE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION EYE BANKS MAKES TO THE WORLD OF DONATION AND TRANSPLANTATION.

THE MISSION OF THE RETINA RESEARCH FOUNDATION IS TO REDUCE RETINAL BLINDNESS WORLDWIDE BY FUNDING PROGRAMS IN RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. AS A PUBLIC CHARITY, RRF RAISES FUNDS FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND THE INVESTMENT OF ITS ENDOWMENT FUNDS.

GRANTS TO MEDICAL AND RESEARCH FACILITIES ENGAGED IN EYE RESEARCH.

TO PROVIDE FUNDING FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO DISEASES OF THE EYE AND CAUSES OF BLINDNESS AND OTHER EYE PROBLEMS

VSW NURTURES EXPERIMENTAL AND EXPANSIVE APPROACHES TO PHOTOGRAPHY AND MEDIA ARTS, AND BUILDS COMMUNITY AMONG ARTISTS AND THE PUBLIC THROUGH EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND RESIDENCIES.

Eye injury is the primary clinical research emphasis of the Foundation. The Foundation's mission and its primary education component is to perpetuate and advance the legacy of Helen Keller.

THE DEAN MCGEE EYE INSTITUTE IS DEDICATED TO SERVING ALL OKLAHOMANS AND THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY THROUGH EXCELLENCE AND LEADERSHIP IN PATIENT CARE, EDUCATION AND VISION RESEARCH.

LOW VISION RESEARCH AND REHABILITATION

THE ORGANIZATION WAS ORGANIZED TO PROMOTE AND CULTIVATE EDUCATIONAL AND SOCIAL RELATIONS AMONG THE STUDENTS AND FACULTY OF THE STATE COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY. THE ORGANIZATION'S MAIN FUNCTION IS TO SERVE AS THE FISCAL AGENT FOR THE COLLEGE'S STUDENT GOVERNMENT.

KEEPING AN EDUCATIONAL EDGE FOR OPHTHALMIC PROFESSIONALS AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED PATIENTS.

THIS FOUNDATION WAS CREATED TO PROVIDE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH WHICH WILL INCLUDE, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MEDICAL RESEARCH, LITERARY AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES.

THE MISSION OF THE RETINA FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTHWEST IS TO PREVENT VISION LOSS AND RESTORE SIGHT THROUGH INNOVATIVE RESEARCH AND TREATMENT.

TO PROVIDE INITIAL RESEARCH FUNDING TO BRILLIANT, INVESTIGATIVE SCIENTISTS WITH NEW IDEAS TO CURE ARTHRITIS AND RELATED AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES.

THE MISSION OF ALL MAY SEE FOUNDATION IS TO RAISE FUNDS FOR UCSF OPHTHALMOLOGY MAKING POSSIBLE BREAKTHROUGHS IN VISION RESEARCH, STATE-OF-THE-ART PATIENT CARE, OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESIDENTS AND FELLOWS, AND INCREASED UNDERSTANDING OF EYE HEALTH AMONG A COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS.

THE MISSION OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY AND STRABISMUS (AAPOS) IS TO IDENTIFY AND PROMOTE THE HIGHEST QUALITY MEDICAL AND SURGICAL EYE CARE WORLDWIDE FOR ALL CHILDREN, AND FOR ADULTS WITH EYE MISALIGNMENT.

HARVESTING CORNEAS AND PROVIDING THEM FOR TRANSPLANT

THE MISSION OF THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS, INC. (FOUNDATION) IS TO DRIVE THE RESEARCH THAT WILL PROVIDE PREVENTIONS, TREATMENTS AND CURES, FOR PEOPLE AFFECTED BY RETINITIS PIGMENTOSA, MACULAR DEGENERATION, USHER SYNDROME, AND THE SPECTRUM OF RETINAL DEGENERATIVE DISEASES.

THE OCULAR IMMUNOLOGY AND UVEITIS FOUNDATION IS DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT AND FINDING THE CAUSES AND CURES OF UVEITIS AND OTHER OCULAR INFLAMMATORY DISEASES, INCREASE AWARENESS OF UVEITIS AMOUNG HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AND THE PUBLIC, AND SUPPORT INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY THE DISEASE.

Education and research funding pertaining to benign essential blepharospasm and related conditions

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Neurological Health International DBA Sight Surgery International (SSI) provides free sight restoring surgery to blind patients in medically underserved areas of the world. SSI recruits ophthalmologists from both the developed and economically emerging countries to donate their professional services. In addition to sight-restoring cataract surgeries, SSI provides professional skills enhancement programs for local surgeons, including didactic lectures, hands on wet-labs and live surgeries.

CERE CONDUCTS MEDICAL RESEARCH, TRAINING, AND PROVIDES EDUCATION IN THE FIELD OF OPHTHALMOLOGY. CERE CONDUCTS EDUCATIONAL SEMINARS FOR MASSACHUSETTS BASED OPTOMETRISTS. THE PURPOSE OF EACH PROGRAM IS TO EDUCATE AND UPDATE GENERAL OPTOMETRISTS ABOUT THE MOST RECENT INFORMATION, TECHNOLOGY AND PROTOCOLS THAT ARE BEING USED IN VARIOUS SUBSPECIALTY OPHTHALMOLOGY CLINICS. CERE OCCASIONALLY FUNDS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL NON-VISION RELATED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATIONAL EFFORTS.

THE FUND IS ORGANIZED AND SHALL BE OPERATED EXCLUSIVELY TO SUPPORT, BENEFIT, PERFORM, AND ASSIST IN CARRYING OUT THE CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL, AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES AND FUNCTIONS OF THE AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

TO PROVIDE EDUCATION IN PEDIATRIC OPHTHALMOLOGY AND PROVIDE CARE TO FINANCIALLY-CHALLENGED CHILDREN/INDIVIDUALS TO REDUCE BLINDNESS AND SUFFERING FROM EYE DISORDERS IN INFANTS AND CHILDREN

GLAUCOMA SCIENCE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION, INC. (GSEF), WAS FORMED TO ADDRESS UNMET NEEDS IN THE FIELD OF GLAUCOMA RESEARCH AND EDUCATION. GSEF WILL PROMOTE INNOVATIVE RESEARCH BY SOLICITING AND AWARDING GRANTS FOR FUNDING TO FURTHER DELINEATE THE GENETIC UNDERPINNINGS OF GLAUCOMA DAMAGE, FURTHER DEFINE RISK FACTORS AND MODELS FOR GLAUCOMA ONSET AND PROGRESSION, AND REFINE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS OF THE OPTIC NERVE. THE FOUNDATION HOPES TO PROVIDE CATALYST FUNDING FOR INNOVATIVE PROJECTS THAT CAN LEAD TO FUTURE FEDERAL FUNDING. IDEAS FOR RESEARCH FUNDING WILL BE SOLICITED FROM GLAUCOMA CLINICAL AND BASIC SCIENCE RESEARCHERS. THE FOUNDATION WILL ALSO PURSUE OPPORTUNITIES TO SUPPORT AND DEVELOP EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS FOR EYE CARE PROVIDERS, RESEARCHERS' TRAINEES.

TO ESTABLISH A WORLD-CLASS RESEARCH AND DIAGNOSTIC CENTER FOR PEDIATRIC OPTHALMOLOGY THAT WILL ADVANCE EXCELLENCE IN EYE CARE FOR ALL CHILDREN.

TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY OF FAMILIES IMPACTED BY BLINDING PEDIATRIC RETINAL DISEASES AND CHAMPION THE QUEST FOR A CURE.

THE EYE & EAR FOUNDATION IS A 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION WITH THE MISSION OF ADVANCING THE LEADING-EDGE ACADEMIC AND RESEARCH EFFORTS OF THE DEPARTMENTS OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY AND OPHTHALMOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH WITH THE ULTIMATE GOAL OF ENHANCING PATIENT CARE.

TO PROVIDE THE ORGANIZATIONAL AND FINANCIAL RESOURCES NECESSARY TO SUPPORT A COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM OF EYE RESEARCH.

Project Vision Hawaii is a nonprofit that works in partnership with the people of Hawaii to promote health, happiness and dignity for all. We offer mobile service units, which are literal and figurative vehicles for access to health and human services. Our success and positive reputation come largely because of two unique components: (1) we bring resources directly to access-challenged communities via mobile service units; and (2) services are always 100% free of charge to participants.

HERMANN EYE FUND PROVIDES FUNDING FOR: PATIENT SERVICES; INDIGENT CARE; TEACHING AND TRAINING RESIDENTS, FELLOWS, INTERNS, MEDICAL STUDENTS, NURSES, OPHTHALMIC ASSISTANTS, ALLIED HEALTH PERSONNEL, PRACTICING PHYSICIANS AND OPTOMETRISTS; AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH.

TO ADVANCE THE RESEARCH, LITERACY AND EDUCATIONAL ASPECTS OF THE SCIENTIFIC FIELD OF THE TEAR FILM AND OCULAR SURFACE.

ODLYIA UTILIZES A UNIQUE, NON-PROFIT BUSINESS MODEL TO ACCELERATE THE DEVELOPMENT OF GENE THERAPIES FROM PEOPLE WITH RARE DISEASE, CHANGING THE WAY TREATMENTS ARE BROUGHT FROM THE LAB TO THE CLINIC.

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The Cincinnati Eye Institute Foundation's (CEIF) Mission is to preserve and improve sight. CEIF provides access to eye care services for the most vulnerable and the underserved in the region. It also advances the education of eye care professionals, it educates the public about vision-related issues, and it funds eye-related research. CEIF has found that the most effective and efficient way to achieve its mission and goals is through the sharing of resources, the exchange of information, and the forging of collaborative partnerships with other community groups, agencies and like-minded individuals. CEIF has come to realize that it takes a community-wide effort to ensure that all individuals living in Greater Cincinnati have access to the eye care they need. This philosophy has led to CEIF's opening free clinics in partnership with other providers in neighborhoods of high poverty and high unemployment.

MOBILIZE RESOURCES, FACILITATE CONNECTIONS, PROMOTING UNITY, AND ADVOCATING FOR A CURE TO INSPIRE, EMPOWER, AND ENRICH THE LIVES OF PEOPLE LIVING WITH ALAGILLE SYNDROME.

TO FUND RESEARCH DEVOTED TO THE VISION SCIENCES INCLUDING INVESTIGATION FOR BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE CAUSES OF VISION LOSS. TO CONDUCT RESEARCH TO FURTHER UNDERSTAND VISION LOSS AND DEVELOP TREATMENTS TO ADDRESS THOSE CONDITIONS. TO RECEIVE AND ADMINISTER FUNDS AND ASSETS FOR CHARITABLE, EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC PURPOSES AS SET FORTH IN SECTION 501(C)(3) OF THE INTERNAL REVENUE CODE OF 1986, AS AMENDED (THE "CODE"), OR ANY CORRESPONDING PROVISION OF ANY SUBSEQUENT FEDERAL TAX LAWS, INCLUDING THE MAKING OF DISTRIBUTIONS TO ORGANIZATIONS THAT QUALIFY AS EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS UNDER CODE SECTION 501(C)(3). TO CONDUCT EDUCATIONAL EVENTS DIRECTED TO HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS AND THE PUBLIC TO BRING ATTENTION TO VISION THREATENING EYE DISEASES AND PROVIDE INFORMATION AS TO POTENTIAL PREVENTATIVE MEASURES.

THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH THIS SOCIETY IS FORMED IS TO FURTHER BY STUDY AND TEACHING THE KNOWLEDGE OF DISEASES OF THE EYE AND THE APPLICATION OF SUCH KNOWLEDGE TO THE PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF THESE DISEASES AND TO PROMOTE THE OBJECTIVES OF THE CHRISTIAN MINISTRY OF HEALING IN THE CARE OF PATIENTS AND IN THE PHILOSOPHY AND CHARACTER OF OPHTHALMOLOGICAL PHYSICIANS.

Educational and scientific research in the field of Glaucoma research in the field of Glaucoma

THE MISSION OF GLAUCOMA INSTITUTE OF BEVERLY HILLS RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC., IS TO PROMOTE AND CONDUCT GLAUCOMA RESEARCH.

Eye Care for Kids Inc. falls under the Eye Diseases & Vision Impairments category: Organizations that conduct research which can be used to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions that affect eyes. The associated medical specialty is ophthalmology.

Advanced Vision Research Inc. falls under the Eye Diseases & Vision Impairments category: Organizations that conduct research which can be used to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions that affect eyes. The associated medical specialty is ophthalmology.

Blaydes Eye Foundation falls under the Eye Diseases & Vision Impairments category: Organizations that conduct research which can be used to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions that affect eyes. The associated medical specialty is ophthalmology.

Eye on Vision Foundation Corp falls under the Eye Diseases & Vision Impairments category: Organizations that conduct research which can be used to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions that affect eyes. The associated medical specialty is ophthalmology.

Eye Research Foundation of San Diego falls under the Eye Diseases & Vision Impairments category: Organizations that conduct research which can be used to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions that affect eyes. The associated medical specialty is ophthalmology.

Precise Vision Enhancement Non-Profit Foundation falls under the Eye Diseases & Vision Impairments category: Organizations that conduct research which can be used to improve the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases and conditions that affect eyes. The associated medical specialty is ophthalmology.