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		<title>Seeing Eye to Eye; Social Good With Optometry Giving Sight</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you have heard of Warby Parket, Tom&#8217;s Glasses, Solo Eyewear and the 20 other online companies that have a give back business model. You can like in several forums we know, scream, rant and rave or you can join forces with other companies or organizations to offer your own &#8216;Social Good&#8217; Program such [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charitable Donations &#8211; So Many Needs, How to Decide</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cathy and I always angst  at the end of the year on where to place our charitable donation. We wait until the end of the year as we donate 10% of our annual income from this blog and our sister site www.opticalvisionresources.com. Vision Care would seem to be the obvious choice but because there are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twisted Sister&#8217;s Jay Jay French Daughter&#8217;s Battle with Uveitis</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:33:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was sorry to read that Jay Jay French&#8217;s 18 year old  daughter Samantha suffers from the debilitating eye disease, Uveitis. The good news is because of his daughter&#8217;s condition, Jay Jay French has been an outspoken voice for the uveitis awareness cause for a few years now. &#8220;When my daughter was six, she had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One Optometrist= 1.8 Million Students</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 02:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Both Shirley and I are big on Giving Back. This story of Massachusetts Optometrist, Dr. Irvin Fradkin demonstrates how the power of one person can launch a national program. All he did was ask for a $1 donation to help send people to school. &#8216;Fifty years ago, an optometrist from Massachusetts launched a campaign in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Man With A Mission Interview &#8211; Eyes of Faith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shirley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am very inspired by both Amy and Jim Schneider,  founders of Eyes of Faith Optical, the hope-inspired, designer eyewear brand. Cathy and I met them both when each of our companies was just starting up a couple of years ago. We have continued to be impressed with how this company walks the talk plus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Unite For Site Volunteer Story &#8211; Kalinga Eye Hospital, India</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 03:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Optical Vision Site Readers, Hello! I wrote a short paper for your blog this past July during which time I was in Orissa India through the program Unite for Sight. I was there to volunteer at the Kalinga Eye Hospital, located in Dhenkanal, for the entire month of July. Now that I am back and settled [...]]]></description>
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