2025

National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness Calls for Nominations for the 2025 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award
Prevent Blindness Declares June 28-July 4, 2025, as Fifth Annual Fireworks Safety Awareness Week
July is Dry Eye Month at Prevent Blindness with Goal to Raise Awareness and Educate the Public on the Eye Condition
Prevent Blindness to Co-host Free “Healthy Sight for Life: A Diabetes and Eye Health Fair”
From Eye Patches to Indie Films: How Pop Culture Can Spark Conversations About Children’s Vision Health
New Disney/Pixar Film Elio Sparks Conversation about Eye Patches and Children’s Vision
Prevent Blindness Provides Educational Resources for Cataract Month
Prevent Blindness to Hold 17th Annual Swing Fore Sight Golf Outing at Vision Expo West, Las Vegas
Prevent Blindness Applauds Reintroduction of Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act
Prevent Blindness and International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness Urge Continued Funding for Global Eye Health Programs
May is the Second Annual Inherited Retinal Disease and Genetic Testing Month at Prevent Blindness
Prevent Blindness Urges West Virginia State House to Reject Bill That Would Imperil Children’s Vision
Prevent Blindness Announces Leadership Promotions
Prevent Blindness Declares April as Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month
Matt MacDonald, President and Global Head of Managed Care at EyeMed Vision Care, Named Chair-elect of Prevent Blindness Board of Directors
2025 Focus on Eye Health Summit – Perspectives in Vision
2025 Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Prevent Blindness Holds 2025 Person of Vision Event Honoring Howard Purcell, O.D.
The Second Annual “Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) Awareness Week
2025 Jenny Pomeroy and Rising Visionary Awards Call for Nominations
Prevent Blindness Declares February as Age-related Macular Degeneration and Low Vision Awareness Month
Prevent Blindness Receives Transformative Legacy Gift of $9.7 Million
2025 Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala to be Held During Vision Expo East

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Jul

National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness Calls for Nominations for the 2025 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award

The 11th Annual Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award from the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness, recognizes significant...

Jun

Prevent Blindness Declares June 28-July 4, 2025, as Fifth Annual Fireworks Safety Awareness Week

Prevent Blindness Warns Public on Potential Dangers of Using Fireworks Prevent Blindness has declared June 28-July 4, 2025, as the Fifth Annual Fireworks Safety Awareness...

Jun

July is Dry Eye Month at Prevent Blindness with Goal to Raise Awareness and Educate the Public on the Eye Condition

Prevent Blindness Provides a Variety of Free Dry Eye Educational Resources including a dedicated Webpage, Fact Sheets and Graphics in English and Spanish, Expert Interviews...

Jun

Prevent Blindness to Co-host Free “Healthy Sight for Life: A Diabetes and Eye Health Fair”

What Prevent Blindness will be co-hosting the “Healthy Sight for Life: A Diabetes and Eye Health Fair,” in collaboration with the Illinois Society for the...

Jun

From Eye Patches to Indie Films: How Pop Culture Can Spark Conversations About Children’s Vision Health

by Jeff Todd, President & CEO of Prevent Blindness We know that pop culture can shape public conversations. Memes and headlines spark cultural touchpoints and...

Jun

New Disney/Pixar Film Elio Sparks Conversation about Eye Patches and Children’s Vision

In advance of the release of the new Disney/Pixar film “Elio,” non-profits Prevent Blindness, and the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at...

May

Prevent Blindness Provides Educational Resources for Cataract Month

Prevent Blindness offers free cataract resources including fact sheets, social media graphics, a dedicated web page, expert video and a listing of financial assistance for...

May

Prevent Blindness to Hold 17th Annual Swing Fore Sight Golf Outing at Vision Expo West, Las Vegas

Prevent Blindness has announced that the 17th Annual Prevent Blindness Swing Fore Sight golf outing will take place on Wed., Sept. 17, 2025, at the Bali...

May

Prevent Blindness Applauds Reintroduction of Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act

Prevent Blindness urges Congress to pass bipartisan legislation, the “Early Detection of Vision Impairments for Children Act,” designed to improve eye care access and health...

Apr

Prevent Blindness and International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness Urge Continued Funding for Global Eye Health Programs

Through letters recently submitted to Congressional leadership in both the House and the Senate, and copied to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Dorothy Camille...

Apr

May is the Second Annual Inherited Retinal Disease and Genetic Testing Month at Prevent Blindness

Prevent Blindness Declares May as Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) and Genetic Testing Month with the goal to educate patients on various forms of IRDs, and...

Apr

Prevent Blindness Urges West Virginia State House to Reject Bill That Would Imperil Children’s Vision

Prevent Blindness strongly calls on the West Virginia State House to reject HB 3444. If enacted, this legislation would remove the mandate that all newborns...