Our Leading Financial Model
Unite For Sight maintains the highest standard for financial responsibility, and we focus on financial ethics, efficiency, and resource maximization. 100% of all donations go directly to providing eye care for patients living in extreme poverty, and 0% goes to any other purpose. Unite For Sight has other funding sources for the 0.1% administrative & general expenses. Our financial model bests other nonprofits by a wide margin.
How are we able to allocate 100% of all donations to the eye care programs?
- 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 GH/Innovate 2010, 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.
- Funding Allocation: We fund all of the necessary expenses for patients living in poverty in developing countries to receive essential eye care.
- 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.