Giving to the College of Optometry

Indigent Eye Care; Last year, our alumni and friends raised more than $20,000 to permanently endow a fund to care for the patients in the St. Louis area. This fund will provide about $1,000 per year in perpetuity; however, more help is needed. $1,000 will fund about half the year’s need in 2006-07. So that no patient is ever turned away, in addition to our general fund, many of our staff and faculty donate to specialty areas.

Specialty areas which alumni and friends may specify, if they wish:
           
Indigent Contact Lenses for patients needing assistance with specialty contact lenses (e.g. a pinhole pupil lens)
           
Indigent BV/VT for patients needing assistance with up to 8-10 BV/VT sessions. Patient’s families are asked to pay a small portion.
           
Indigent Low Vision assistance for patients needing help, usually with the assessment portion.

Optometric Center Gifts; In-kind gifts of eye glass frames or lenses, and equipment are donated to help further the work at the Optometric Center.

Optometric Center Eye Care; Assistance for patients of the “O Center” is provided directly from this fund.

Optometry Equipment Fund; Gifts of used equipment not specified for a specific clinic are placed into this account.

East St. Louis Gift ; Gifts to support indigent eye care specifically in East St. Louis are placed into this account.

University Eye Center; Gifts to support indigent eye care specifically at the main campus clinic are placed into this account.

Scholarships

To send a gift to any one of these funds, please send a check payable to UM-St. Louis and please note on the memo line into which fund you want the gift to go. Please mail it to:

UM-St. Louis, College of Optometry
B. W. Brown, 308 Woods Hall
One University Boulevard
St. Louis, MO 63121-4499

If you have any questions or would like to donate used equipment, please call Barbara W. Brown at 314-516-6030 or send her an email.