List of associations and eye health organizations
National Eye Institute
The National Eye Institute’s mission is to “conduct and support research, training, health information dissemination, and other programs with respect to blinding eye diseases, visual disorders, mechanisms of visual function, preservation of sight, and the special health problems and requirements of the blind.”
Contact details : Information Office 31 Center Drive MSC 2510 Bethesda, MD 20892-2510 - Phone: (301) 496-5248—English and Spanish - E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Glaucoma Research Foundation
The Glaucoma Research Foundation is a national non-profit organization dedicated to finding a cure for glaucoma.
Contact details : 251 Post Street, Ste 600 San Francisco, CA 94108 - Phone: (415) 986-3162 - Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
American Foundation for the Blind
The American Foundation for the Blind removes barriers, creates solutions, and expands possibilities so people with vision loss can achieve their full potential.
Contact details : AFB Headquarters 2 Penn Plaza, Suite 1102 New York, NY 10121 - Tel: (212) 502-7600
Foundation Fighting Blindness
The urgent mission of the Foundation Fighting Blindness is to drive the research that will provide preventions, treatments and cures for people affected by retinitis pigmentosa, age-related macular degeneration, Usher syndrome and the entire spectrum of retinal degenerative diseases.
Contact details : 7168 Columbia Gateway Drive, Suite 100 Columbia, MD 21046 - E-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Toll Free: (800) 683-5555
American Optometric Association
The American Optometric Association represents approximately 39,000 doctors of optometry, optometry students and paraoptometric assistants and technicians. Optometrists serve patients in nearly 6,500 communities across the country, and in 3,500 of those communities are the only eye doctors. Doctors of optometry provide two-thirds of all primary eye care in the United States.
Contact details : American Optometric Association 243 N. Lindbergh Blvd., Flr. 1 St. Louis, MO 63141-7881 - (800) 365-2219
Unite for Sight
Unite For Sight supports eye clinics worldwide by investing human and financial resources in their social ventures to eliminate patient barriers to eye care.
Contact details : Unite For Sight International Headquarters - 234 Church Street, 15th Floor New Haven, CT 06510 United States of America - Telephone: +1 (203) 404-4900 - Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
