Changing Life through Lenses®

OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation's platform offering glasses and resources to enhance your charitable outreach

Changing Life through Lenses® (CLTL) provides eye doctors and charities access to free prescription eyeglasses, a trial frame collection, and resources on starting or expanding charitable engagement. Without charitable doctors and advocates for vision, millions of people across the United States would be unable to access and afford the vision care they need. OneSight EssilorLuxottica Foundation is proud to support this growing community of eye doctors providing glasses to hundreds of thousands of people in need in their communities. Together we can help everyone see more and be more.

Program Benefits

Free glasses | Single vision or bifocal glasses for qualified patients
Frame kit | Complimentary trial frame collection with 30 styles for children and adults
Best practice sharing | Guides on how to start or expand your charitable activities
Promotion | Library of marketing resources that help you promote your practice as charitable and further the cause of vision

Program Requirements

Here are some things to know before signing up:

No charge can be assessed for the in-kind hardware
It is highly recommended that the doctor provide the exam at no cost
To qualify, patients need to be at, or below, the poverty level with no insurance for this pair of glasses
NPI or license number is required for the doctor to register for an account
Annual pledge/forecast is required

User Testimonials

Hear from Dr. Jerry Gundersheimer about how the Changing Life through Lenses® program has helped him make a difference in his community.

Sign up today and join the hundreds of other eye doctors and nonprofits across the United States who are helping to eliminate poor vision!

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Simply put, Changing Life through Lenses® has significantly expanded our ability to serve the underserved with the gift of sight. I can not overstate how critical this is to those suffering in our community. ”

Rupert C. Chowins, O.D.

— Eye Clinic Director, SLO Noor Free Clinic

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A friend (also an OD) and I have been using your program to provide glasses to the homeless in Philadelphia. We have felt drawn to help this population on a pro bono basis for a long time and now we can provide them with no cost quality vision correction! Many times, those who are materially poor do not have many choices, so it is wonderful to have such a terrific selection of stylish and quality frames to offer them. They were so pleased and excited! ”

Christine Chmielewski, O.D.

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For almost 15 years, we have been setting aside four exam slots per month for Howard Brown Health Center patients. The cost of providing high quality eye wear kept us from being able to offer even more services. Changing Life through Lenses® makes ordering easy, the glasses are high quality and are provided in a timely manner. Now that the cost of the eye wear is not an obstacle, we are able to open up our services to more patients. ”

Michael Ciszek, O.D.

— Visionary Eye Care Professionals

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This effort has the potential to make a real impact on a large number of kids in underserved communities across the U.S. – all of us here at HKI are super excited! ”

Meghan K. Lynch

— Director, ChildSight® U.S. Helen Keller International

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Our patients are always so pleased when they hear that we are doing charitable giving and we always give CLTL the credit! It's definitely a great practice builder -- do what's right for the patient and it'll always help your practice. It also makes the staff happy to see we are helping patients at no charge to them. It makes them feel like they are part of something special and shows that the goal of the practice is to help people. Of course, they know that we need to make money to keep the doors open, but it's not about that, it's about the patients. ”

Dr. Suzanne Zamberlan of Evergreen

— Eye Care in Vancouver, WA

Join Us

This website will allow eye doctors and charities to create an online account in real time and place orders for production of no-cost prescription eyeglasses

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