SIGHT NIGHT PATCH PROGRAM
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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 Learning Tools

Step 2: Download all the Collection Materials Here Print and personalize fun materials to help you collect used eyeglasses including doorhangers, fliers and stickers in English, Spanish or French!

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. Keep a list of addresses that received doorhangers so you can return to them on Sight Night!

Step 4: Ghost Hunt for Used Eyeglasses on Sight Night! (Check the date and time of trick-or-treat night in your town.) Collect prescription eyeglasses and non-prescription sunglasses. Check out the latest collection ideas and safety tips. Wear a Sight Night sticker on your costume to identify you as an official volunteer!

Step 5: Count Your Peepers and Collect Your Certificate! (by Monday, November 10) Enter your results online here. You will receive an official Sight Night certificate of recognition shortly after reporting.

Step 7: Turn In Your Sight Night Eyeglasses (by November 8) at: Your local LensCrafters. Click here for LensCrafters’ store near you. -or- Your local Lions club. .— or — A Lions Eyeglass Recycling Center. locations in the USA click below on state.

California, Nevada, Texas, New Jersey, Indiana, Virginia, and Washington.

Step 8: Order your participation patch from Patchwork Designs, Inc. Note address, phone number and fax number on the side of this page.

Shipping is $3.95. If you order 5 or or less patches. Shipping is $1.00

(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 news release and Public Service Announcements.

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!