Sights for Hope honored 40 employees and volunteers and marked one year with its new name Tuesday during its first Team Appreciation Luncheon. The luncheon at The Phoenix in Nazareth, PA, was organized by Sights for Hope’s Board of Directors, and attendees received gifts of appreciation with support from St. Luke’s University Health Network and […]
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#FindOutMore: Older Adults from Two Sights for Hope Counties Exceed State Rate for Visual Impairments
A new report by the VisionServe Alliance and The Ohio State University states that two of the three counties in Sights for Hope’s service area exceed Pennsylvania’s average rate of older adults with visual impairments. The research from the university’s College of Optometry shows that 6.0% of Pennsylvanians ages 65 and up have difficulty seeing […]
Sights for Hope Announces its April C. Well Sweepstakes Winners
Sights for Hope announced the April 2022 winners of its C. Well Sweepstakes on Friday. The winners are Deborah Bren of Schnecksville, PA; James Kondravy of Allentown, PA; the Lehigh Township Lions Club of Walnutport, PA; Arlene Mulrooney of Easton, PA; and John Sagi of Allentown, PA. Two additional monthly drawings will be held through June. Sweepstakes […]
Client Bus Registration Now Open for 2022 Beacon Lodge Summer Camp
Sights for Hope has opened bus registration for clients attending the Pennsylvania Lions Beacon Lodge summer camp from July 16-26. Clients can reserve their spaces on the bus – provided by Lions clubs in the greater Philadelphia area – with a $70 payment to Sights for Hope. The bus departs from the former Kmart store […]
Sights for Hope Welcomes Deirdre Federico Snyder as Director of Advancement
Sights for Hope announced today that Deirdre Federico Snyder, CFRE has become its Director of Advancement. Federico Snyder served as Director of Development for the Lehigh County Humane Society from 2019 to 2021 and earned her international Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) credential in 2021. During her tenure with the humane society, Federico Snyder established […]
Sights for Hope Tops Prior Year’s Lions Campaign Total, Announces New Lions Club for Monroe Clients
Sights for Hope surpassed its previous year’s Lions Campaign total Tuesday during its Lions4Sight 2022 Breakfast. Sights for Hope also announced on Tuesday the formation of the Monroe Sights for Hope Lions Club, a branch of the Stroudsburg Lions Club. Sights for Hope’s Lions 2021-2022 Campaign has raised $30,889 to date, surpassing the previous year’s […]
Michael Savage Elected to Sights for Hope Board of Directors
Michael Savage – President of Savage Financial Group in Pocono Summit, PA, and President of the Tannersville Lions Club – was elected to the Sights for Hope Board of Directors during the board’s March meeting. Savage has been in the investment business since 1989 and founded Savage Financial Group in 2010 as part of Raymond […]
Sights for Hope to Raise Awareness of Cutting-Edge Assistive Tech with Special Funding
Sights for Hope will leverage special funding to promote greater awareness of cutting-edge technologies that can enhance personal independence dramatically for people with visual impairments. Sights for Hope will obtain more than a dozen devices for demonstration purposes at its Lehigh Valley Services Center in Allentown, PA; at its Monroe Services Center near Stroudsburg, PA; […]
Sights for Hope Announces its March C. Well Sweepstakes Winners
Sights for Hope announced the March 2022 drawing winners of its C. Well Sweepstakes on Tuesday. The winners are the Coplay Lions Club of Coplay, PA; Diane Folland of Germansville, PA; Gary Pave of Breinigsville, PA; Rosa LaLuz of Bethlehem, PA; and Shirley Zeleski of Bethlehem, PA. Tickets for the 2021-2022 C. Well Sweepstakes are […]
Songs4Sight 2022 to Feature The BRUCE Show Springsteen Tribute
Sights for Hope has announced that its Songs4Sight 2022 concert, presented by Provident Bank, will feature The BRUCE Show – an electrifying Springsteen tribute by The Mighty SPECTRUM Band. Produced in collaboration with ArtsQuest, Songs4Sight 2022 will be held outside SteelStacks in Bethlehem, PA on Tuesday, June 14. Gates will open at 6 p.m. and […]