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- EIN 23-1352260
- (610) 433-6018
- 845 Wyoming Street Allentown PA 18103 USA
- https://sightsforhope.org/
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Eye Diseases, Blindness & Vision Impairments, Health
Mission: Sights for Hope's mission is to provide people with visual impairments the skills, supports, and solutions that advance their self-sufficiency. Its call to action is that People who live with visual impairments and blindness face unacceptable disparities with respect to personal independence and well-being. These inequalities are manifest particularly by increased challenges in accomplishing daily life activities; limited access to medical care, nutritious food, and other critical services; difficulties with emotional health; and a decreased potential to learn successfully in school.
Results: Sights for Hope's outcomes for its 2022-2023 service year were: 97% of clients developed a greater ability to perform daily activities; 96% of clients resided outside of an assisted living facility; 96% of clients gained greater access to food, medical care, and other critical services; 94% of clients learned how to make better use of their existing sight; and 95% of clients gained a greater acceptance of their visual impairments. Sights for Hope's client population has grown by 27% from July 2020-June 2023. It provided 3,134 guided transports in 2022-2023, a 25% year-over-year increase. Sights for Hope provided free vision screenings to 4,865 children ages 0-6 in 2022-2023, and 14% of those children were found to have an undetected visual impairment.
Target demographics: transform the lives of people with visual impairments by removing the barriers to their independence and success.
Direct beneficiaries per year: 570 clients and patients and 4,600 children
Geographic areas served: Lehigh, Northampton and Monroe counties in eastern Pennsylvania
Programs: Life Skills Education: Group and one-on-one sessions that teach vision rehabilitation, orientation and mobility, adaptive use of technology, and elemental life skills; Youth and Family Programs: Life Skills Education programs that help young people with visual impairments build the skills to become independent adults and show their families how to empower them; Technology Solutions: Functional low vision exams by a professional optometrist and individualized consultations performed to match clients and patients with the assistive devices that best meet their needs; Prevention Services: Free vision screenings for children ages 6 and under to identify sight conditions; partnerships that provide eye exams and glasses to advance school readiness; and community education programs that promote eye health, eye safety, and inclusion of people with visual impairments.