Optometry Giving Sight has launched a brand new program, Collectively Eyecare Achieves Miracles, or TEAM OGS, as a way for optometry practices to boost funds for OGS and assist its mission, the nonprofit group introduced in a press launch.
“Optometrists and optometry practices are very beneficiant and compassionate,” Lois Schoenbrun, FAAO, OGS’s govt director, stated within the launch. “Most practices are fairly concerned of their native communities, whether or not they have formal company social duty packages in place or not. Their assist of OGS — and participation in TEAM OGS — reveal their concern for individuals all through the world who’ve little to no entry to imaginative and prescient care.”
TEAM OGS offers optometrists and their practices alternatives to take part in year-round fundraising actions. Picture: Adobe Inventory
Lois Schoenbrun
Since 2007, OGS has organized the World Sight Day Problem, its largest fundraiser that runs for two months. With TEAM OGS, practices in america and Canada can take part year-round in quite a lot of fundraising actions to assist finish preventable blindness and imaginative and prescient impairment, together with donating a day of eye examination charges every month, giving a proportion of merchandise offered or encouraging sufferers to donate. Practices can be part of TEAM OGS for free of charge, and supplies for participation are supplied freed from cost.
“We all know how busy optometrists and their staffs are, and we needed to make it simple for them to take part in TEAM OGS, so their focus can stay on caring for sufferers on daily basis,” Schoenbrun stated within the launch.
