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SightLife 

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Working with surgeons in over 30 countries, SightLife restores sight to more than 20 men, women, and children each day. This is accomplished through eye banking, which is the recovery and placement of eye tissue used in cornea transplants. SightLife’s mission is to eliminate cornea blindness, and we are working to achieve that mission by creating partner eye banks in the developing countries, where 90% of the 10 million people suffering from curable cornea blindness live.           

SightLife’s primary service regions in the United States are Washington state, Northern Idaho, Montana, California’s San Joaquin Valley, and Kaiser Permanente in Northern California. We meet 100% of the need for transplant tissue in these regions with no waiting list. We also help to fill shortages in other parts of the nation.

Mission Statement
We serve as a global leader and partner to eliminate cornea blindness.
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SightLife
221 Yale Ave N 
Seattle 
WA
98109 
(206) 682-8500 

Scott Garrepy 
Chief Development Officer 

Programs

SightLife Programs

SightLife's Global Program: Building Capacity to Cure Cornea Blindess in Developing Countries          

Today over 10 million people with corneal blindness are waiting to have their sight restored.  As you know, a treatment exists: corneal transplantation. But fewer than 30,000 transplants are performed annually in developing and emerging countries.  There are two primary barriers to sight restoration in the developing world: a lack of corneal tissue and a lack of adequate healthcare infrastructure to support corneal transplantation. We believe we have the solution. We believe that by putting the right leaders and infrastructure in place, over one million transplantable tissues annually can ultimately be available for transplant throughout the world.  We estimate that it will take approximately 900 global eye banks to meet the worldwide demand for corneas and end curable cornea blindness.           

SightLife is building capacity for eye banks in India, Nepal, and Paraguay to help cure blindness in their communities.          

Listen to a feature story on SightLife's Global Programs on NPR's "Morning Edition" 

Recent Successes and Current Challenges

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Evaluation

Grant History with The Seattle Foundation:

Grants Awarded through The Seattle Foundation Grantmaking Program:

DateAmountPurpose
6/10/2008 $20,000.00support the capital campaign.

Financials

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