July | 2025

Prescription eye drops are a common way to treat dry eye and other conditions. Prevent Blindness has tips for making it easier to use eye drops and get the needed medicine into your eyes.

Prevent Blindness has declared June 28-July 4, 2025, as the Fifth Annual Fireworks Safety Awareness Week in an effort to educate the public on the dangers of fireworks. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) reports that thousands of fireworks injuries are treated in U.S. hospital emergency departments around the Independence Day holiday, including many to the eyes and face. Some injuries lead to irreversible vision loss or even blindness. Learn the facts and be an advocate for safe summer celebrations.

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• Host Christopher Hord discusses the Prevent Blindness ASPECT patient advocacy program with Prevent Blindness staff Julie Grutzmacher, director of patient advocacy & population health initiatives; Jeanetta Price and Elisabeth Edwards, ASPECT program managers. 
• Certified mindfulness teacher Eric Cooley provides an overview of mindfulness as it relates to vision loss and blindness.

Prevent Blindness is working to strengthen and expand our advocacy efforts, and we want to better understand how our community would like to be involved. Whether you want to take action or simply stay informed, we’d love to hear from you. It only takes a few minutes to complete.

By sharing your story, you can inspire others to seek the help they need to protect their eyes and vision and show them that there is a community at Prevent Blindness that cares and understands.

The 17th Annual Prevent Blindness Swing Fore Sight golf outing will take place on Wednesday, September 17, 2025, at the Bali Hai Golf Club, Las Vegas, Nevada, in conjunction with Vision Expo West. Registration and breakfast begin at 6 a.m. PT, with a shotgun start at 7 a.m. PT. All proceeds from the event will go to support Prevent Blindness and its sight-saving programs.

2025 Swing Fore Sight Sponsors

Silver

Jobson Interactive

MacuHealth

Hospitality Sponsor

Ocuco

Lunch Sponsor

Advancing Eyecare

The Vision Council

Vision Expo

Foursome

AEG Vision

Invision Magazine and Media

Westgroupe

If you shop at Walmart.com, why not support sight while doing your online shopping? You can choose to round up at the register. Your payment will be rounded up to the nearest whole dollar with the change going to support Prevent Blindness.

To sign up for the Walmart register Round Up program, simply visit Walmart online and sign in to your Walmart.com account.

If you don’t have an account yet, you will need to create one. Then search for Prevent Blindness under Find a Local Charity. Once you see Prevent Blindness, click Round Up, then click “Select this Charity.” In future orders, you will see the “Round up” amount appear when you view the check-out cart. Just check the box to round up and donate your change. It’s that easy!

Thank you for considering this opportunity to support our sight-saving work.

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