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'''VisionSpring''', formerly Scojo Foundation, is a [[social enterprise]] founded by Jordan Kassalow and Scott Berrie in 2001, a year after Kassalow co-founded [http://www.scojo.com/  Scojo Vision LLC], a designer and distributor of high-end reading glasses.<ref>http://www.draperrichards.org/fellows/visionspring.html name=about-founder>{{cite web|url=http://visionspring.org/about/staff-detail.php?id=2|title = About Us: Founder and Staff: Jordan Kassalow}}</ref>

''' Mission''': To ensure [[wikt:equitable|equitable]] and affordable [[Glasses|eyeglass]] is available to every individual to live a productive life.

== About VisionSpring in India ==
VisionSpring in India was launched in 2005. About 92.4 million people in [[India]] suffer from [[Ppresbyopia]], causing them to be less productive in their work. VisionSpring, with its [[business model]], provide [[employment]] opportunities in India by training Vision Entrepreneurs (VEs) to give eye screenings, sell eyeglasses to the different communities and to refer customers who needed prescription glasses to a VisionSpring [[optometrist]]. Once hired, a VE will receive a package containing marketing materials and the details required to carry out an eye test. For every pair of glasses sold, the VEs (contracted; show full)

The VEs, who will conduct eyesight screening, are trained shortly within 3 days, the reliability of their assessment skills can be questioned.<ref>http://inspiredeconomist.com/2011/08/31/visionspring-a-model-toms-shoes-would-be-wise-to-adopt/</ref>


==Funding==

VisionSpring has received funding from a number of foundations focused on [[high impact philanthropy]] including the [[Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation]],<ref name=draperrichards>{{cite web|url=http://www.draperrichards.org/fellows/visionspring.html|title = VisionSpring (link doesn't seem to work properly)|publisher = Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation|accessdate = 2012-08-14}}</ref> [[Mulago Foundation]],<ref name=mulago>{{cite web|url=http://mulagofoundation.org/portfolio/vision-spring|title = VisionSpring (portfolio page)|publisher = [[Mulago Foundation]]}}</ref> and [[Jasmine Social Investments]].<ref name=jasmine>{{cite web|url=http://jasmine.org.nz/who-we-fund/|title = Who We Fund (click on VisionSpring for details)|publisher = [[Jasmine Social Investments]]|accessdate = 2012-08-14}}</ref>⏎
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[[Category:Ophthalmology organizations]]