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OUR STORY

Since 2001, VisionSpring has been scaling impact, adapting to challenges, and learning along the way.

It’s not about the eyeglasses, it’s about opportunity.

Jordan Kassalow founded VisionSpring in 2001 and Ella Gudwin has been CEO since 2015. Hear Jordan and Ella in conversation about how VisionSpring redefined eyeglasses as a tool for unlocking human potential.

WHO WE ARE

VisionSpring is the social enterprise accelerating the uptake of eyeglasses in emerging and frontier markets.

OUR MISSION

To increase lifelong earning, learning, safety, and well-being through eyeglasses for people vulnerable to poverty.*

OUR CORE BELIEF

We believe in the wonder of clear vision for everyone.

OUR VISION

Everyone who needs eyeglasses will have them by 2050.

Celebrating Clear Vision for Everyone

Follow the first 20 years of our journey to correct the vision of our first 10 million customers.

OUR FOUNDER

Dare to Matter

We all want to build our lives with intention, deliberately and consciously, so how we live our life aligns with what matters to us the most. A central part of that is living for something bigger than ourselves, so ultimately we feel that we are leading a life that matters, that our brief presence on this earth made some kind of difference.

JORDAN KASSALOW

Founder of VisionSpring, Author of Dare to Matter: Your Path to Making a Difference Now 

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*Vulnerable to poverty refers to people living on less that $4 per day

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