List of Unite For Sight Chapters (2008-2009 Academic Year)
Unite For Sight's chapters at high schools and universities are established only after an individual or group first applies to start a chapter, works with Unite For Sight staff to establish the chapter, and after the officers and optometrist/ophthalmologist advisor sign the Chapter Charter. All Unite For Sight volunteers are required to complete pre-service training, and only those who have completed the training are Unite For Sight volunteers. Chapters are required to hold two community-based programs per month, have biweekly phone conversations with Unite For Sight staff, and submit monthly updates online about chapter activities.
Our priority is to ensure that Unite For Sight volunteers make a high-impact difference, and our staff works closely with each chapter to establish effective programs. Our research, experience, and evaluation has enabled us to develop a highly successful program that ensures that patients receive the highest quality of care by locally available eye doctors through professional organizations such as the American Academy of Ophthalmology and American Optometric Association.
What is a Unite For Sight chapter?
Unite for Sight chapters are established by college students, medical students, public health and other graduate students, as well as by high school students. Unite For Sight's university chapters provide free visual acuity screenings, educate children and adults about eye health and blindness prevention, and encourage the medically underserved to register for free health coverage so that they can receive complete eye exams by eye doctors. Unite For Sight's high school chapters focus on eliminating preventable blindness through eye health education programs, eyeglass drives, and raising funds to sponsor sight-restoring eye care in developing countries.
Our staff works cosely with the volunteers to establish effective, high impact programs, and we maintain comprehensive records of all volunteer participants. Only those who have successfully completed Unite For Sight's training are permitted to participate in Unite For Sight programs.
Unite For Sight's Chapters (2008-2009 Academic Year)
Listed below are Unite For Sight's chapters, and this list is updated immediately upon receipt of a new chapter's Chapter Charter. Only universities and high schools listed below have a chapter of Unite For Sight. The Unite For Sight name, logo, and materials are protected by copyright and trademark laws worldwide, and the use by unapproved groups of the Unite For Sight name, logo and materials constitutes the infringement of our trademarks and copyrights, which carries the potential for serious legal consequences. Licenses to those important intellectual properties are available only to Unite For Sight's chapters, which comply with our organization's important requirements.
If you would like to join an existing chapter of Unite For Sight, send an email to volunteers@uniteforsight.org If there is not already a chapter of Unite For Sight at your school, you may begin the process of establishing a chapter by applying online.
- Albany Medical College
- Benedictine University
- Boston University
- Boston University School of Medicine
- Brigham Yong University
- Brown University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Case Western Reserve University
- Cathedral High School
- Colorado School of Mines
- Cornell University
- DePaul Catholic High School
- Duke University
- Emory University
- Georgetown University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Gettysburg College
- Harvard University
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Ithaca College
- Kalamazoo College
- Lassiter High School
- Loyola Marymount University
- Loyola University
- Lynchburg College
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- McGill University
- McMaster University
- Mount Holyoke College
- New York Institute of Technology
- New York Medical College
- New York University School of Medicine
- North Carolina State University
- Northeastern State University
- Northwestern University
- Ohio State University College of Medicine
- Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
- San Diego State University
- Stanford University
- St. Olaf College
- SUNY Downstate
- Texas A&M
- Texas Osteopathic College of Medicine
- The Charter School of Wilmington High School
- Tulane University
- University of Alabama School of Medicine
- University of Alberta
- University of Arizona
- University of British Columbia
- University of California at Berkeley
- University of California at Davis
- University of Chicago
- University of Delaware
- University of Florida
- University of Hartford
- University of Illinois at Chicago
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- University of Iowa
- University of Maryland
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of Minnesota-Duluth
- University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
- University of North Carolina Greensboro
- University of Pennsylvania
- University of Southern California
- University of Texas at Dallas
- University of Texas at San Antonio Medical School
- University of Toledo College of Medicine
- University of Toronto
- University of Toronto - Mississauga
- University of Utah
- University of Virginia
- University of Washington
- University of Western Ontario
- Vanderbilt
- Virginia Tech
- Wake Forest University
- Western Kentucky University
- Yale University
