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- EIN 43-1036995
- (816) 454-5454
- 10560 N Ambassador Dr Kansas City MO 64153-1278 USA
- www.saving-sight.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments, Health
Mission: Dedicated to changing lives by saving sight
Programs: Cornea donation & transplantation. Saving sight is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization with a mission to change lives by saving sight. Founded in columbia in 1960, the organization introduced eye donation and the gift of sight to missouri. Today, saving sight continues to coordinate eye donation and distribution of eye tissue for transplant. The organization also operates charitable vision programs, including community vision screenings for children and adults and eyeglass recycling. With offices located in missouri, kansas, and central illinois, saving sight's programs serve over 100,000 people worldwide.
donor services center -the donor services center (dsc) serves as the call center for saving sight to facilitate eye donation with families who have recently lost loved ones. The dsc speaks to hospitals to screen potential donors, completes legal authorization with families over the phone and coordinates the recovery of eye tissue with hospitals and funeral home staff by dispatching saving sight technicians to recover tissue within the saving sight service region. Saving sight's dsc also provides call center services for iowa lions eye bank and lions eye bank of wisconsin.