Former Sights for Hope Board President Linwood Gehris will rejoin the organization’s Board of Directors on January 1 as its Endowment Foundation Director. Gehris – who served on board from 2014-2023 and as President from 2017-2021 – has been elected by the affiliated Sights for Hope Endowment Foundation to be its representative to the Sights […]
Sights for Hope’s donors helped the organization earn a $1,000 match Tuesday during AllOne Charities’ Give Day 2024 event. Described as a “movement of radical generosity,” Give Day is held by AllOne Charities on Giving Tuesday – a global event on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving to promote philanthropy during the winter holiday season. By raising […]
Sights for Hope will be closed on Tuesday, December 24; Wednesday, December 25; Tuesday, December 31; and Wednesday, January 1, to observe the winter holidays. No services will be available on those dates. Sights for Hope will be open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. from December 26-30 and will resume its typical schedule on […]
Works by two Sights for Hope clients and one of its team members are featured in an art exhibition opening September 30. The exhibition – titled Another Point of View: 4 Visually Impaired Artists – is sponsored by the Bethlehem Fine Arts Commission and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Sights for Hope clients Mary […]
Sights for Hope extended its growth in several key service categories during its 2023-2024 year. In the year ending June 30, Sights for Hope increased its total number of people served by 10% over the prior year, its number of pre-kindergarten children who received vision screenings by 28%, its number of low vision functional exams […]
Denise Shaffer, Toney Horst, and Walter Roland, IV, have joined the Sights for Hope Board of Directors. Shaffer, the Immediate Past District Governor of Pennsylvania Lions District 14-K, is the board’s 2024-2025 Lions Leadership Director. Horst and Roland have been elected to three-year terms. Board Treasurer Daniel Lombardo also began his second three-year term as a board […]
Lions clubs and organizations have contributed more than $50,000 to Sights for Hope in 2023-2024, reaching that mark for the first time in four years. The year’s Lions giving totaled $51,808. This is only the second year in the last seven when the $50,000 mark was topped. Most Lions contributions by clubs in Lehigh, Northampton, […]
Sights for Hope has opened a new Client Activities Area at its Lehigh Valley Services Center – including a room for hands-on projects, a lounge, and a counseling room. The area allows Sights for Hope to conduct more client programs and activities and facilitate its growing personal counseling service. It also will provide a space […]
Sights for Hope will be closed on Thursday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day. No services will be available that day. Operations will resume on Friday, July 5, at 8:30 a.m. Image: A field filled with American flags. […]
Sights for Hope closed its 2023-2024 C. Well Sweepstakes on Monday with the announcement of its June 2024 winners. The June winners are Donna Fink of Whitehall, PA; Jacquelyn Gregg of Coopersburg, PA; Fran Herman of Northampton, PA; Tom Lindeman of Whitehall, PA; and Eleanor Seng of Allentown, PA. This was the third win of this […]