Sights for Hope Sets Record Goal for NEPA Gives 2025 Fundraiser

By Sights for Hope Team |
A digital graphic on a computer screen promoting "NEPA Gives" on June 5-6, 2025, featuring a stylized map of Pennsylvania with heart icons and green-blue tones.

Sights for Hope has set a record fundraising goal for its NEPA Gives 2025 campaign, which exclusively benefits its services in Monroe County.

The goal to raise $2,500 through the NEPA Gives digital platform on June 5-6, would top the $2,085 that Sights for Hope earned in 2024.

Led by the Scranton Area Community Foundation, NEPA Gives encourages people in Carbon, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Pike, and Wayne counties to contribute to favorite organizations. NEPA Gives sponsors also provide matching funds for some of the contributions made. In 2024, Sights for Hope donors helped the organization earn a $1,000 grant from the Scranton Area Community Foundation.

Sights for Hope has served Monroe County residents since 2002. As of February 28, 30% of Sights for Hope’s 2024-2025 client and patient service hours have benefitted Monroe residents and 31% of the pre-kindergarten children who have received its vision screenings are from the county.

A 2022 study by The Ohio State University and the national VisionServe Alliance stated that 7.3% of Monroe County residents ages 65 and up lived with a visual impairment or blindness. This rate was 22% above Pennsylvania’s state average of 6.0% and Monroe County had the sixth highest rate among Pennsylvania’s 67 counties.

Sights for Hope has empowered people to conquer and prevent the challenges of visual impairments and blindness since 1928. Sights for Hope’s services strengthen skills, deliver supports, champion solutions, and build self-confidence for its clients, its patients, and the people in its communities. Founded from a challenge made by Helen Keller, Sights for Hope is proud to carry that tradition forward in Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley and Monroe County. Sights for Hope is a member of the Pennsylvania Association for the Blind (PAB) and the VisionServe Alliance.

Image: A digital graphic on a computer screen promoting “NEPA Gives” on June 5-6, 2025, featuring a stylized map of Pennsylvania with heart icons and green-blue tones.