Partners/Donors

Give the Gift of Sight partners with agencies, Lions clubs, doctors and donors to deliver its charitable optical programs in North America and around the world. Currently, we are conducting a corporate donation drive. Click here to learn more. Agency partners While Luxottica Retail associates and doctors deliver free eye care through Give the Gift of Sight, they do not select which individuals deserve help and receive care. In North America, recipients are selected by local schools, agencies and charities that screen for visual and financial need, select people to receive our services and often transport them to our stores. Local Give the Gift of Sight partner agencies include Lions clubs, United Way agencies, schools, churches and shelters. Aside from the Lions clubs and schools partners must be 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organizations. Go to How Gift of Sight can help your community for more information. Lions Clubs International All Gift of Sight international missions are co-sponsored by Lions Clubs International local districts. The Lions help select and prepare our clinic sites, arrange mission team accommodations, assist with customs, provide translators and meals for team members, identify a minimum of 25,000 local recipients per mission trip and transport them to our clinics. Contact us for more information. Doctor partners For every pair of new or recycled glasses we donate through Give the Gift of Sight, a doctor must first perform an eye exam and determine a prescription. Thousands of doctors affiliated with Luxottica Retail, as well as doctors in the community support Give the Gift of Sight by donating hundreds of thousands of eye exams each year–in their offices, on our Vision Vans and worldwide on international missions. Donor partners Give the Gift of Sight Foundation receives financial and in-kind support from Luxottica Retail associates and suppliers, from community and corporate foundations and from the general public. Annually, we raise and spend about $1.5 million in cash and double that amount in goods. This support is vital to the Gift of Sight program. We are proud of the fact that we greatly exceed Better Business Bureau fundraising standards, spending 97% of our total expenses directly on programs. Click on Corporate Donors, Goods, Services and Community Donors and Decade Donors for lists of our generous major contributors. Go to How you can help to learn how you can support Give the Gift of Sight.