2008 Fiscal Year Annual Summary Report
Financial Summary of July 1, 2008 - June 30, 2009 Fiscal Year
These numbers are drawn from audited financial statements.
Total Revenues and support: $2.139 million
Contributions and Program Revenue: $1,205,254
Donated Services and materials: $892,765
Investment income and other: $22,000
Total Expenses: 2.009 million (99.9% Program Services)
Program Services: $1,990,889 (99.9%)
Administrative: $18,380 (0.1%)
100% of all donations provide eye care to patients living in poverty in developing countries. Unite For Sight has other funding sources for the 0.1% administrative expenses. Our financial model bests other nonprofits by a wide margin. Learn more about our financial model.
Summary of July 1, 2008-June 30, 2009 International Program Services
Our innovative programs have provided the highest quality of care to 900,000 of the world's poorest people, including 29,144 sight-restoring surgeries through November 2009. The eye care is provided by local eye doctors. Unite For Sight invests human and financial resources to develop each eye clinic's outreach infrastructure, and the programs are led, managed, and delivered by the local eye clinic's ophthalmologists and ophthalmic staff. Unite For Sight and its partner eye clinics eliminate patient barriers to care by fully funding surgeries, bringing eye care services by local eye care professionals to the patients in their villages, providing transportation to the eye clinic for surgery as needed, and educating communities about blindness elimination.
During FY2008, Unite For Sight provided eye care for more than 200,000 patients while coordinating and funding 10,223 sight-restoring surgeries.
- 200,000 Patients Received Eye Care Through Unite For Sight's Programs
- Volunteer Global Impact Fellows Who Assisted Unite For Sight's Partner Eye Clinics in Ghana, Honduras, and India: 300 volunteer fellows traveling abroad; 6,526 days of volunteer service
- 7,298 sight-restoring surgeries coordinated and funded in Ghana
- 2,191 surgeries for patients living in the Accra region
- 2,144 surgeries for patients living in the Tamale region
- 1,895 surgeries for patients living in varying rural villages throughout Ghana
- 874 surgeries for patients living in the Kumasi region
- 115 surgeries in the Tema region
- 79 surgeries for patients living in the Offinso region
- 2,782 sight-restoring surgeries coordinated and funded in India
- 1,249 surgeries for patients living in the Chennai region
- 1,000 surgeries for patients living in the New Delhi region
- 533 surgeries for patients living in the Bhubaneswar region
- 127 sight-restoring surgeries coordinated and funded in Honduras
- 16 sight-restoring surgeries funded in Thailand
Impact: Quantitative Outcome Measurements
- We track the number of patients living in poverty who receive eye care through Unite For Sight outreach programs. Unite For Sight invests human and financial resources to develop each eye clinic's outreach infrastructure, and the programs are led, managed, and delivered by the local eye clinic's ophthalmic staff.
- We evaluate the number of patients living in poverty who are receiving surgery by the local eye clinics, and we track the number of patients with significantly improved vision after surgery. Unite For Sight requires extensive documentation from each eye clinic partner, including every patient's preoperative and postoperative visual acuity data, which is analyzed to ensure the quality, effectiveness, and social impact of the programs.
- We assess the increase in each eye clinic's cataract surgical rate, targeted for patients living in poverty. Comparison measurements are made for cataract surgical rate before and after the introduction of the Unite For Sight partnership.
Summary of 2008-2009 Academic Year North America Program Services
- 90 university chapters in United States and Canada link community members with resources for free, comprehensive eye care through professional organizations such as the American Academy of Ophthalmology and American Optometric Association
- Our 1,100 chapter volunteers work to reduce barriers to care, including education, awareness, and financial barriers
Summary of 2009 Annual Global Health & Innovation Conference at Yale University
- 2,200 conference attendees from 60 countries and 50 states
- 200 speakers