American Academy of Ophthalmology
The American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) is a professional organization made up of ninety percent of U.S. ophthalmologists, dedicated to helping the public maintain healthy eyes and good vision. A... Detalles >
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American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) provides support and resources for Pediatric Ophthalmologists, Strabismologists, related personnel and their patients by way of ... Detalles >
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American Council of the Blind
The American Council of the Blind (ACB) is composed primarily of blind persons involved in 50 active State and 20 professional and special-interest organizations. ACB strives to strengthen vocational... Detalles >
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American Diabetes Association
The American Diabetes Association (ADA), formed in 1940, was created to fight diabetes through education and research. Local chapters and affiliates use volunteers to organize educational and screeni... Detalles >
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American Foundation for the Blind
The American Foundation for the Blind (AFB) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1921 to improve services for people who are blind or visually impaired, conduct research, and inform the public. AFB... Detalles >
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American Health Assistance Foundation
The American Health Assistance Foundation (AHAF) is a non-profit charitable organization dedicated to funding scientific research on age-related and degenerative diseases, educating the public about t... Detalles >
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American Optometric Association
The American Optometric Association (AOA), founded in 1898 as the American Association of Opticians, is a professional association for optometrists and students of optometry. The AOA's goals are to p... Detalles >
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Association for Macular Diseases
The Association for Macular Diseases was formed by patients in 1977 to promote education on and research into macular diseases and to provide support for afflicted persons and their families. It also ... Detalles >
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Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation
The Benign Essential Blepharospasm Research Foundation was established in 1981 to promote awareness of and research on the condition and to give support to those afflicted with it. It provides inform... Detalles >
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Blind Children's Fund
The Blind Children's Fund (BCF), formerly The International Institute for Visually Impaired, 0-7 (IIVI, 0-7), founded in 1978, is a resource and information center on the early development and educati... Detalles >
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Blinded Veterans Association
The Blinded Veterans Association (BVA), founded in 1945, promotes the welfare of blind and visually impaired veterans. The BVA helps these veterans become oriented or readjusted and obtain vocational... Detalles >
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Braille Institute
The Braille Institute was founded in 1919 as the Universal Braille Press to provide services to the blind, which now includes production of more than 5 million Braille pages yearly, preschool service... Detalles >
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Center for the Partially Sighted
The Center for the Partially Sighted (CPS) offers rehabilitative services to the partially sighted, of all ages, including the legally blind. Services include low vision evaluations, prescription of ... Detalles >
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Choice Magazine Listening
Choice Magazine Listening (CML) provides bimonthly audio tapes of current magazine articles from over 100 magazines free of charge to the blind, visually impaired, or physically handicapped. Eight ho... Detalles >
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Council of Citizens with Low Vision International
The Council of Citizens with Low Vision (CCLV) is an advocacy membership organization for partially sighted people. It aims to establish their right to make full use of their vision through the necess... Detalles >
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George Washington University HEATH Resource Center
The George Washington University (GW) HEATH Resource Center responds to written, telephone, or email inquiries about support services for disabled individuals in postsecondary education options. The c... Detalles >
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Glaucoma Research Foundation
The Glaucoma Research Foundation (GRF) is a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the sight of people who have glaucoma through research and education. GRF was established in 1978 ... Detalles >
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Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, Inc.
The Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind provides trained dogs for qualified blind persons. The Foundation is a nonprofit organization incorporated under the Membership Corporation Laws of New York. I... Detalles >
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Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc.
Guide Dogs for the Blind was organized in 1942 to serve blind veterans by providing them with trained dogs and with training in the use of guide dogs. The school now provides these services to all qu... Detalles >
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Guiding Eyes for the Blind
Guiding Eyes for the Blind was created to provide independent mobility to qualified blind persons through the use of highly trained guide dogs. The puppies are placed in the homes of volunteer foster... Detalles >
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International Society of Refractive Surgery
This is an international organization of eye care professionals committed advancing the art and science of refractive surgery worldwide. The ISRS membership comprise many clinicians involved in the us... Detalles >
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Lighthouse National Center for Vision and Aging
The National Center for Vision and Aging (NCVA) was established by the Lighthouse in 1985. NCVA provides information and resources to consumers, professionals, and the business community. NCVA's ser... Detalles >
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Low Vision Information Center
The Low Vision Information Center (LVIC), is a nonprofit organization that provides up-to-date information about eye diseases; programs about low vision for interested groups; referrals to other agenc... Detalles >
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Macular Degeneration Foundation
The Macular Degeneration Foundation arose out of the need of its founder to learn as much as he could about macular degeneration after he was diagnosed with it. The foundation is a tax exempt non-prof... Detalles >
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Macular Degeneration Partnership
The Macular Degeneration Partnership is a coalition of patients and families, researchers, clinicians, industry partners and leaders in the fields of vision and aging. Its mission is to create an unpr... Detalles >
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National Alliance of Blind Students
The National Alliance of Blind Students (NABS) was founded in 1974 as an affiliate of the American Council of the Blind to provide a forum for blind and visually impaired students. It believes that e... Detalles >
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National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments
The National Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments is a nonprofit organization of parents, families, self-help groups, agencies, and private groups with the common objective of s... Detalles >
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National Association for Visually Handicapped
This is a national voluntary health agency founded in 1954 to provide services for the partially seeing. NAVH has supplied services to all 50 states and 98 foreign countries, including a FREE by-mai... Detalles >
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National Braille Association, Inc.
The National Braille Association (NBA) was founded in 1945 to provide continuing education to those who prepare braille, and to provide braille materials to persons who are visually impaired. The orga... Detalles >
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National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
The National Eye Institute (NEI), established in 1968, has primary responsibility within the National Institutes of Health for supporting and conducting research aimed at improving the prevention, d... Detalles >
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National Eye Research Foundation
The National Eye Research Foundation (NERF), founded in 1955, is a nonprofit, international organization dedicated to improving eye care for the public and meeting the professional needs of eye care p... Detalles >
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National Federation of the Blind
The National Federation of the Blind (NFB), established in 1940 as an organization of blind persons, serves as both an advocacy and a public information vehicle. NFB contacts newly blind persons to h... Detalles >
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National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health
The Office of Communications and Public Liason of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK), formerly the National Institute of Arthritis, Diabetes, and Digestive an... Detalles >
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National Keratoconus Foundation
The National Keratoconus Foundation (NKCF) is a nonprofit organization with a mission to improve
the quality of life of persons with keratoconus. It does this by making educational material available... Detalles >
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National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress
Administers a national library service that provides braille and recorded books and magazines on free loan to residents of the United States and American citizens abroad who cannot read standard print... Detalles >
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Pilot Dogs, Inc.
Pilot Dogs is a nonprofit organization founded in 1950 to train guide dogs and to teach blind persons to work with them. Dogs are trained individually for 3 to 4 months, then trained for another 4 we... Detalles >
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Prevent Blindness America
Prevent Blindness America, formerly known as the National Society to Prevent Blindness (NSPB), was founded in 1908. It promotes the prevention of blindness through a comprehensive program of communit... Detalles >
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PXE International, Inc.
PXE International, Inc., a 501 (c) 3 organization, was founded in 1995. Its mission is three-fold: to support patients, provide resources for clinicians and encourage research.... Detalles >
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Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
Recording For the Blind & Dyslexic (RFB&D;), founded in 1948, provides recorded educational books free of charge to persons who cannot read standard printed material because of visual, perceptual, or o... Detalles >
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Schepens Eye Research Institute
This is an affiliate of the Harvard Medical School located in Boston, Massachusetts and is the largest independent eye research institute in the United States. Originally known as the Retina Foundatio... Detalles >
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Surgical Eye Expeditions International
Founded in 1974, this international, non-profit humanitarian organization recruits, coordinates and deploys volunteer ophthalmologists, nurses and technicians to perform free, sight-restoring surgery ... Detalles >
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