Foundation Missions
Service for Sight Grants
Through grants given to organizations that share the Delta Gamma Foundation's mission, each dollar is spread across North America to accomplish more together than alone.
Children with vision loss have been able to experience the thrill of a lifetime at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center. Students have been aided with free, state-of-the-art eyeglasses, specialized computer monitor technology, braille books, and unlimited access to a new children’s Braille Library.
College students have been awarded scholarships to a summer Braille Music Institute for musically talented young adults. Help lines, news on tape, informational Web sites and newly developed products to enhance the lives of adults with vision loss are just a few more of the great programs funded by the Delta Gamma Foundation.
Labels for Education
The Campbell's® Label for Education™ program is a successful Foundation service project. During 2007-2008, Delta Gamma's collected 36,141 labels! The labels were sent to the Delta Gamma Center for the Visually Impaired in Kansas City and The Delta Gamma Center - St. Louis.
Your labels can bring much needed equipment to the Delta Gamma schools for children who are blind or visually impaired. For more information, see www.labelsforeducation.com; call Campbell's at 1-800-424-5331; or, contact Delta Gamma Labels for Education Program Chairman Anne Robinson Mount at labelsforeduchr @ deltagamma.org. (Please write Labels for Ed in your subject line.)
Donate Eyeglasses
Are you wondering if there is something you can do to support Delta Gamma's philanthropy of Service for Sight? What about donating your outdated and unneeded eyeglasses? The Baton Rouge Regional Eye Bank is always looking for donations of lightly used glasses. The Baton Rouge Regional Eye Bank was established in 1976 as a community service to provide the highest quality eye tissue to local ophthalmologists for transplant surgery. The Eye Bank is charged with the mission of public education about eye donation through workshops, health fairs and other community programs. The Eye Bank serves hospitals, doctors and patients in South Central regions of Louisiana. For more information, click on the following link: http://www.eyebankbr.org/index.html.
Save Box Tops
©General Mills Box Tops for Education program is a simple Service for Sight project supported by many Delta Gamma alumnae groups and collegiate chapters. Adopt your local school for the blind and help make a difference! Earn cash for your school every time you shop for groceries. Clip Box Tops coupons from hundreds of your favorite products found at your local grocery store. Each coupon is worth 10¢ when your school redeems them from General Mills.
- Gives local and state schools for the blind a financial boost of up to $20,000 per year.
- For each General Mills Box Top for Education logo received, your chosen school will receive 10 cents.
- Is designated for schools with grades kindergarten and up. (Note: since the Delta Gamma Schools for the Blind are preschool level only, they are not eligible to participate in this program.)
A grand total of 30,117 box tops were collected and sent to mission-related schools in 2007-2008, as reported on Delta Gamma's e-Ops reporting system.
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