New Eyes for the Needy is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, non-sectarian volunteer organization whose purpose is to improve the vision of the less fortunate throughout the world.

New Eyes operates with 150 adult and 55 student volunteers and 3 part-time staff positions.

New Eyes helps poor people in the United States and developing nations. Since our founding in 1932, New Eyes for the Needy has helped over 6,700,000 visually impaired poor people throughout the world.

• U.S. residents in need are given vouchers which are used to purchase new prescription eyeglasses.
• Reusable donated eyeglasses are sent to medical missions and international charitable organizations for distribution in developing nations in Asia, Africa, Central and South America, the Mid-East and Europe.

Last year, New Eyes purchased new prescription eyeglasses for 5,945 people in the United States. The number of people we can help depends on our income from donations, grants, and proceeds from the sale of donated scrap precious metal, hearing aids, jewelry and giftware.

We shipped 281,260 pairs of used eyeglasses for distribution to poor people overseas during 2006-2007.

• Cash contributions. You may make the donation as a memorial or tribute.
• Plastic frame eyeglasses and sunglasses in good condition and metal frame eyeglasses in any condition
• Used hearing aids and dentures with gold inlays
• Jewelry and giftware

Collecting eyeglasses and other items for New Eyes for the Needy is a good service project for any size organization. We can provide everything you need to conduct a successful collection drive.

Cash donations and the proceeds from the sale of scrap precious metal, hearing aids, jewelry and giftware are used to purchase new prescription eyeglasses for the poor in the United States. For each $60 donated in cash or raised through the resale of donated items, New Eyes can purchase a pair of new prescription eyeglasses for a U.S. resident in need.

Reusable eyeglasses are sorted by volunteers and sent to medical missions and international charitable organizations for distribution to poor people overseas.

New Eyes for the Needy is endorsed by the American Academy of Ophthalmology, the Opticians Association of America, The National Society for the Prevention of Blindness, and Fight for Sight, Inc.