Match your monthly gift and help end avoidable blindness
Our community of Visionaries, our monthly donors, are the heartbeat of The Foundation. They give us the stability and consistency essential for effective long-term program planning and resource allocation.
Dr. Cam Hollows, Fred’s son, grew up witnessing the life-changing impact of sight-restoring surgery. On a recent visit to Rwanda, he saw how The Foundation continues to transform lives, witnessing patients who were blind in both eyes finally able to see again after receiving life-changing surgeries.
By becoming a Visionary today, you’ll help restore sight to twice as many people. That’s twice as many people who can get an education, see their loved ones, and support their families. That’s twice as many lives transformed.
Fred would be outraged to know that still today, 9 out of 10 people who are blind or vision impaired don’t need to be. We need people like you, now more than ever, to carry on Fred’s sight-restoring work.
Fred said, “To help someone to see is a tremendous feeling,” and I hope you’ll feel especially tremendous knowing that your monthly gifts will restore sight to twice as many people!
Your monthly support will ensure that we can deliver critical eye treatments, train dedicated eye health workers, and equip hospitals and facilities worldwide.
Restoring sight transforms lives, and we need Visionaries like you to make it happen.
Why should you give monthly?
Monthly giving is the most effective way to support our work. It allows us to plan ahead and deliver ongoing support to people living with avoidable blindness in over 25 countries around the world.
Monthly donations have a multiplier effect
Your monthly gift creates a ripple of impact. It helps train local doctors who then train others, and supports clinics that continue restoring sight long after the first surgery. Month after month, you're not just changing lives — you're creating a legacy of sight that keeps growing.
It’s more convenient for you — and for us
You choose the amount, and your donation is automatically debited from your nominated account on the 15th or 28th of each month. It saves admin time and costs, and gives you full control to update or cancel anytime.
Monthly donations help us plan long-term projects
Monthly donations are our most reliable source of income. They allow us to focus less on fundraising, and more on delivering long-term projects — including investing in innovation and expanding access to affordable eye care in some of the most remote communities.
Frequently asked questions
Matched giving is a time-bound campaign, in which donations are matched dollar-for-dollar to a matched giving fund. A matched giving fund can be one donor or a group of donors whose donations are pooled together, who have offered to match any donations given in a specified time period, to the total value of a specified amount.
An anonymous group of donors has agreed to match new monthly donations for the first 12 months. Donations will be matched to the value of $32,000. Once this target is reached the campaign will end. All donations above $2 are tax deductible and will be directed to where the need is greatest.
Only new monthly donations will be matched for the first 12 months. Donations will be matched to the value of $32,000.
No, only monthly donations will be matched for this campaign. Donations will be matched for 12 months.
Once the target has been reached, promotion of the campaign will end and donations will no longer be matched.
Restoring sight changes lives and it can only happen thanks to the generosity of supporters like you.
When you become a monthly donor we will send you:
- A welcome pack in the mail within a few weeks. The welcome pack will contain all the necessary information about your monthly gift.
- Your nominated account or credit card will be debited each month on the 15th or 28th (whichever is closest to your sign up date).
- You will receive regular email updates, sharing stories from the field about patients whose sight you’ve helped restore; medical professionals and programs you have supported; events and activities The Foundation has taken part in; petitions and research relating to eye health.
- At the end of each financial year, we will send a tax receipt with all your donations (donations over $2 are tax-deductible), for you to use for your income tax claim.
Yes, you will receive an email receipt immediately after donating and if you make a monthly gift you will receive a yearly tax receipt in the post every year.
Your donation will be used to restore sight to those who are needlessly blind, and help end avoidable blindness in the countries where we work, which includes eye operations and treatments, training surgeons and eye health workers, and other sustainable eye health.
For every $1 donated, 74.1% goes directly towards eye health programs, 5.2% is necessary for admin costs, and 20.7% goes towards investment in fundraising efforts, which allows us to help even more people in future years.
We accept Visa, Mastercard, American Express, PayPal, and direct debit for monthly donations.
Please view our Regular Giving Service Agreement here.
