Our Leading Financial Model

Our staff manages our programs.

Our paid staff located at our headquarters in Connecticut works entirely on managing our programs: International Eye Care Programs and Global Impact Corps, Chapters and Community Fellow Program, Global Health University, and the Global Health & Innovation Conference. Our staff works out of our donated office space in downtown New Haven.

International programs are locally led and managed.

Our programs internationally are led and managed by the local eye clinic staff, thereby maintaining and creating local jobs in developing countries. We are proud to invest in the talent of local health professionals at eye clinics in the communities where we work.

We are green and save green.

Our program operations utilize robust pro bono enterprise information management, commerce, and media systems. Our use of streamlined, high performance electronic systems allows us to maintain few paper files and eliminates the need for staff to complete administrative tasks. It also minimizes our amount of environmentally unfriendly paper waste.

Diverse funding sources.

100% of all donations provide eye care for patients living in extreme poverty, and the 0.9% administrative & general expenses are funded by other funding sources.

Fundraising with no expenses.

While most nonprofit organizations "spend money to make money" on fundraising, Unite For Sight spends $0 per year on fundraising. Our fundraising efforts incur no monetary costs. We do not hold any fundraising events that require expenses, nor do we solicit donations through postal mail or print media. All donation receipts are sent to donors electronically utilizing our electronic commerce system.