During the 2022-2023 school year, 45 Eye Thrive volunteers completed an astounding 203 hours helping with data entry, frame cleaning, inventory, and assembling thrive kits. That's an average of 4.5 hours each!

Volunteers are an integral part of our workflow, allowing our team to give more time to our kids.

If you're interested in volunteering, head to our website and submit your contact information.

Did you know that within the five county metropolitan St. Louis region, more than 70,000 children are living in poverty?

Our friends and St. Louis neighbors at Vision for Children at Risk recently launched an interactive Children's Data Center, which tracks indicators related to child well-being for the region. Eye Thrive is crucial to delivering essential vision services to our kids so they don't get left behind - in the classroom or in life.

In Case You Missed It

Executive Director Kate McKearn joined KMOX's Tom Ackerman for the July's Building Community with Busey Bank podcast!

We are grateful for the opportunity to speak about the immediate, measurable impact of our work.

Our team stopped by Fox2 In the Morning to discuss our summer visits.

Executive Director Kate McKearn and St. Louis County Library Director Kristen Sorth were on-hand to discuss the impact of years of summer visits to the library!

Eye Thrive's signature event, Spectacle, is coming up on Friday, October 6 at Palladium Saint Louis, and tickets are one sale now!

All Tickets Include:

• Complimentary On-Site Parking
• Cocktails
• Hors d'Oeuvres
• Dinner
• Silent and Live Auction
• Live Music by Fanfare
• Photos by Fête Booth

These organizations have provided funds to support Eye Thrive!

On behalf of our kids - thank you for your generosity.