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NIGHT PATCH PROGRAM If you know you are participating, please pre-order the patch for your group. Collect door to door or within your group. Step 1: Get Your Group Together! Collect used eyeglasses on your own or with a group of friends, scouts, club members, or schoolmates. Start by downloading the “Trick-or-treat for a Cause” flier to recruit volunteers. Use Sight Night as a way to learn more about optics, the cultures of countries where the used eyeglasses go, and more Click here for Sight Night How To Guide Step 2: Print off flyers here Print and personalize this flyer to collect your used glasses. Step 3: Place Doorhangers Along Your Collection Route (three days to a week in advance) Distribute doorhangers around your neighborhood to give your neighbors time to find their used eyeglasses and sunglasses! Download doorhangers here(Black and White) (Color) Keep a list of addresses that received doorhangers so you can return to them on Sight Night! Step 4: Ghost Hunt for Used prescription Eyeglasses on Sight Night! (Check the date and time of trick-or-treat night in your town.) Wear a Sight Night sticker [black and white] OR Color on your costume to identify you as an official volunteer! [Formatted for printing on Avery template 5395 “Self Adhesive Name Badges”.] Step 5: Count Your Peepers and Enter your results online here. You will be able to receive an official Sight Night certificate of recognition via email. Step 7: Turn In Your Sight Night Eyeglasses at: Your local LensCrafters or Lions Club. Click here for Lions Club location near you or Click here for the nearest eyeglass collection center [such as Lenscrafters, Pearle Vision, Sears Optical etc.] EXTRA: *** Outstanding DVD - "New Glasses, New Life" This 10-minute DVD (PR28DVD) is told from the perspective of a recipient of recycled eyeglasses. All aspects of the Lions Recycle for Sight Program are highlighted. This is an excellent presentation suitable for Lions events and community seminars. The DVD is available in English only, US$3.95 plus postage and handling, through Club Supplies. Click here to order from Lions Club. There is also a free video available on line. Click on the above link. Step
8: Order your participation patch from Patchwork Designs, Inc.
Ordering information. We take MasterCard, Visa, Discover, cash and
checks.
(Optional) Promote Your Sight Night Through the Media (one month to a few days in advance) Contact your local or community newspaper, radio, or TV station to promote your eyeglass collection by asking the community to join in on Sight Night! Click here for sample Press Release Sample Public Service Announcement Q: What will happen to the eyeglasses I collect? A: The eyeglasses will be recycled and hand-delivered to people in developing countries such as El Salvador, Mexico, Peru and Ecuador by LensCrafters and Lions club volunteers. Click here to read stories of some of our recipients. Q: Why aren't the used eyeglasses collected on Sight Night given to people in the US and Canada? A: In the US and Canada, LensCrafters and Lions club volunteers deliver new glasses to those in need throughout the year in stores, in our communities and on our traveling Vision Vans. Q: May I get a tax receipt for eyeglass donations? A: Yes! Lencrafters can provide a tax receipt for US donors. It is up to the donor to assess the dollar value of the donation, since the cost of eyeglasses varies. If you haven't already done so, forward your address to the Sight Night representative. They will mail a tax receipt to you frightfully soon! |