2024

2024 World Sight Day Activities Focus on Children’s Vision
Prevent Blindness Raises Awareness on the Need for Eye Protection While Playing Sports
Prevent Blindness Declares August as Children’s Eye Health and Safety Month to Educate Parents, Professionals, and Government Leaders on the Importance of Healthy Vision for Kids
Prevent Blindness Joins in July’s Dry Eye Awareness Month, Providing Educational Resources on Eye Disease that Affects Millions
Fourth Annual Prevent Blindness Fireworks Safety Awareness Week declared as June 28-July 4, 2024, to Help Educate Consumers on the Dangers of Fireworks
Prevent Blindness to Hold 16th Annual Swing Fore Sight Golf Outing at Vision Expo West, Las Vegas
Prevent Blindness Declares June as Cataract Awareness Month to Educate Public on Eye Disease that is the Leading Cause of Vision Loss in the United States
Call for Nominations Issued for the 2024 Bonnie Strickland Champion for Children’s Vision Award from the National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness
Prevent Blindness Offers New Resources for Education and to Raise Awareness for Stargardt Disease
Prevent Blindness Launches “It Started With an Eye Exam” Campaign to Encourage, Educate and Empower the Public to Make Vision and Eye Health a Part of Their Overall Health Care
Proposed Bipartisan Legislation Would Create First Federally Funded Program to Address Children’s Vision and Eye Health
Prevent Blindness to Host the 2024 ASPECT Patient Engagement and Advocacy Summit in Washington, D.C.
Prevent Blindness to Host 13th Annual Focus on Eye Health Summit, a Two-Day Virtual Interactive Event, with theme of “Being Seen and Heard”
Prevent Blindness Announces Recipients of the 2024 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health, and the Rising Visionary Award
Prevent Blindness Declares May as First-ever Inherited Retinal Disease (IRD) Genetic Testing Awareness Month
Prevent Blindness Provides Free Resources as Part of April’s Women’s Eye Health and Safety Month to Educate Women on Necessary Steps to Help Save Sight
Prevent Blindness Holds 2024 Person of Vision Award Event, honoring Ed Buffington, GPN Technologies, and 20/20 Magazine, as Part of Vision Expo East
Prevent Blindness Declares March as Workplace Eye Wellness Month to Encourage Eye Safety Practices, Eye Protection at Work
Prevent Blindness Launches New “Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) Education and Support Program” as Part of Inaugural ROP Awareness Week, Feb. 26 – March 3, 2024
Prevent Blindness Encourages Eye Safety for Upcoming Total Solar Eclipse in April
February Declared as Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) and Low Vision Awareness Month by Prevent Blindness
National Center for Children’s Vision and Eye Health at Prevent Blindness Celebrates 15th Anniversary in 2024
Tickets and Sponsorships Available for the 2024 Prevent Blindness Person of Vision Award Gala During Vision Expo East, Honoring Ed Buffington, GPN Technologies
Prevent Blindness Issues Call for Nominations for the 2024 Jenny Pomeroy Award for Excellence in Vision and Public Health, and Rising Visionary Award

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Jul

Light the Night for Sight Raises $15,000 to benefit Children’s Vision Care

The Light the Night for Sight Walkathon presented by Prevent Blindness Tennessee raised $15,000 to benefit programs that provide eye health information and access to...

Jul

PREVENT BLINDNESS OHIO RECEIVES NONPROFIT IT CREATIVITY AWARD

Prevent Blindness Ohio (PBO) received GroundWork group Columbus’ inaugural Nonprofit IT Creativity Award for Constituent Management before a crowd of 200 nonprofit organization representatives, business...

Jun

Fourth Annual Swing Fore Sight Golf Tournament

Annual Event Will Coincide with 2011 Vision Expo West CHICAGO (June 29, 2011) – Prevent Blindness America, the nation’s leading eye health and safety organization,...

Jun

Children’s Eyes are More Susceptible to Long-Term Damage from UV Rays

Prevent Blindness Mid-Atlantic Urges Parents to Encourage Their Children to Wear Proper Eye Protection When Playing Outdoors As children begin to head out to...

Jun

Celebrate July 4th Safely

Nearly 6,000 Americans spent part of their Fourth of July holiday in the emergency room in 2009 due to fireworks injuries, according to the U.S....

Jun

Don’t Spend Fourth of July in the Emergency Room

CHICAGO (June 21, 2011) – Nearly 6,000 Americans spent part of their Fourth of July holiday in the emergency room in 2009 due to fireworks...

Jun

Program provides free eye exams to more than 600,000 children

Program corrects ten-year-old Michelle’s crossed eye, immediately improving her grades in school Rancho Cordova, Calif., June 7, 2011 – Ten-year-old Michelle Jones of Chicago, Ill.,...

Jun

Cataract Remains a Leading Cause of Vision Loss

Americans Spend Close to $7 Billion a Year on Direct Medical Costs Related to Cataract CHICAGO (May 26, 2011) – Cataract is the leading cause...

Jun

Prevent Blindness America Announces Eighth Annual Investigator Award Recipient

Prevent Blindness America announced today the recipient of its 2011 Investigator Award. This year’s selected recipient is from Children’s Hospital Boston. A distinguished panel of...