Optometry Giving Sight Earns 4-Star Score From Charity Navigator

Optometry Giving Sight (OGS) is proud to announce that its robust monetary well being and ongoing accountability and transparency have earned a 4-Star Score from Charity Navigator. This ranking designates Optometry Giving Sight as an official “Give with Confidence” charity, indicating that OGS is utilizing its donations successfully primarily based on Charity Navigator’s standards. Charity Navigator is America’s largest and most utilized unbiased charity evaluator. Since 2001, the group has been an unbiased and trusted supply of knowledge for greater than 11 million donors yearly.

Charity Navigator analyzes nonprofit efficiency primarily based on 4 key indicators, known as beacons. At the moment, nonprofits can earn scores for the Affect & Outcomes, Accountability & Finance, Tradition & Group, and Management & Adaptability beacons.

“We’re delighted to supply Optometry Giving Sight with third-party accreditation that validates their operational excellence,” stated Michael Thatcher, President and CEO of Charity Navigator. “The 4-Star Score is the best attainable ranking a corporation can obtain. We’re desperate to see the great work that OGS is ready to accomplish within the years forward.”

“Our 4-Star Charity Navigator ranking is additional validation that our supporters can belief our dedication to good governance and monetary well being,” stated OGS Govt Director Lois Schoenbrun, CAE (Ret.), FAAO. “As we work with our companions to eradicate pointless imaginative and prescient impairment within the U.S. and all over the world, we would like our donors to know that we admire them and worth their belief in us.”

Optometry Giving Sight helps sustainable and scalable optometry-led packages that educate eye care suppliers regionally and allow the institution and supply of imaginative and prescient care and eye well being to all. In 2023 alone, OGS is funding 21 packages within the U.S. and globally, totaling greater than $900,000 USD.

About Optometry Giving Sight

Optometry Giving Sight is the one world fundraising initiative that particularly targets the prevention of blindness and impaired imaginative and prescient on account of uncorrected refractive error (URE) – merely the necessity for an eye fixed examination and glasses. It was established in 2003 by the Brien Holden Imaginative and prescient Institute, World Council of Optometry, and the Worldwide Company for the Prevention of Blindness as a way of mobilizing assist from the worldwide eye care career and trade to assist eradicate the backlog of people who find themselves needlessly blind or imaginative and prescient impaired – at the moment estimated at greater than 600 million worldwide. It’s a registered charity within the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Eire, and Italy.

Over the past 20 years, OGS funding has offered fundamental eye care providers to greater than 8 million individuals, assisted with coaching greater than 14,000 eye care personnel, established greater than 130 imaginative and prescient facilities, and served individuals in additional than 40 international locations. Within the final two years alone, OGS has offered funding to greater than 30 challenge companions all over the world, totaling greater than $1.5 million in grants. For extra data, go to givingsight.org.