VSP Imaginative and prescient Releases 2023 Social Accountability Impression Report Asserting Extra Than 4 Million Individuals Helped By way of VSP Imaginative and prescient Eyes of Hope

(PRESS RELEASE) RANCHO CORDOVA, CA – VSP Imaginative and prescient launched its 2023 Impression Report, which highlights the corporate’s progress towards its company social accountability (CSR) commitments. The second annual report gives particulars on how VSP Visioncontinues to collaborate with its community of optometrists, group companions and workers to speed up well being fairness, empower variety, fairness, and inclusion, and advance sustainability.

In 2023 alone, VSP Imaginative and prescient invested practically $13.5 million in direct and in-kind funding to positively affect communities and enhance equitable entry to imaginative and prescient care. It additionally elevated the variety of frames constructed from sustainable, recycled and biobased supplies to 33%, launched a brand new scholarship to assist advance the subsequent era of optometrists, and eliminated the equal of 39 tons of carbon dioxide from the air by utilizing extra sustainable transport containers.

“We’re proud to report the progress we’re making by significant collaboration with our stakeholders and companions to assist construct a future that’s extra equitable, inclusive and sustainable,” mentioned VSP Imaginative and prescient president and CEO Michael Guyette. “As we rejoice these milestones and achievements, we’re conscious that advancing our social accountability efforts is a journey and we’ll proceed to carry ourselves accountable to creating progress in order that, collectively, we contribute to a world the place everybody can carry their finest imaginative and prescient to life.”

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Extra Highlights from the 2023 Impression Report

Accelerating Well being Fairness:

• Achieved a milestone of greater than 4 million folks helped by VSP Imaginative and prescient Eyes of Hope because the program’s inception, with 264,000 receiving entry to free imaginative and prescient care in 2023 alone.
• Invested $775,000 in aid to these impacted by disasters ($21 million so far).
• Invested $416,000 in scholarships and grants to assist advance the subsequent era of optometrists and create a pathway for extra various college students to enter the optometric area ($3.3 million so far).

Empowering Variety, Fairness and Inclusion:

• Launched new DE&I studying path to teach workers on constructing upon their DE&I acumen.
• Hosted a variety of instructional and consciousness occasions for workers, led by the eight VSP Enterprise Useful resource Teams, which encourage studying from various views, connection, collaboration and allyship.
• Expanded VSP Imaginative and prescient’s pipeline of suppliers by preliminary focus of its Provider Variety Program, exceeding 18% various spend inside the 12 months.
• Established the inaugural Empowering Fairness Scholarship to extend consciousness about profession alternatives within the optometric business for black college students.

Advancing Sustainability:

• Launched sustainable body supplies, together with recycled metal, Acetate Renew by Eastman and Tenite Renew by Eastman all through numerous manufacturers within the firm’s portfolio.
• Elevated the share of frames constructed from sustainable, recycled and biobased supplies to 33%, an 8% enhance from 2022. This brings the corporate nearer to its aim of manufacturing 50% of eyewear frames from sustainable supplies by 2025.
• Utilizing the totally sustainable e-commerce transport field constructed from 100% recyclable supplies that it created in 2022, VSP Imaginative and prescient shipped 184,000 containers in 2023, saving the equal of 721 mature bushes and ensuing within the elimination of 39 tons of carbon dioxide from the air.

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“I really feel proud to work for a corporation that’s dedicated to offering equitable entry to eye care, fostering worker progress and a powerful tradition of belonging, and making a optimistic affect on the planet and communities we serve,” mentioned Christina Watkins, VSP Imaginative and prescient supervisor of Shopper Administration Operations, who can be a Enterprise Useful resource Group member and Worker Giving ambassador.

By way of VSP Hearts at Work, the corporate’s worker giving and volunteering platform, workers supported greater than 700 causes by logging 9,000 volunteer hours and elevating $441,000. The corporate additionally launched its inaugural VSP Imaginative and prescient Volunteer Month in April 2023, the place 114 worker volunteers logged greater than 700 hours with charitable causes in a single month alone.

Study extra in regards to the firm’s dedication to social accountability.