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VisionSpring
'''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 name=about-founder>{{cite web|url=http://visionspring.org/about/staff-detail.php?id=2|title = About Us: Founder and Staff: Jordan Kassalow}}</ref>

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VisionSpring has two working models.  One called the Hub & Spoke model and the other the Partnership model.  The Economist likened their Hub & Spoke model to "Lenscrafters meets Mary Kay."  In this model, the
y operate fixed cross-subsidized optical shops with optometrists from which a small band of "Vision Entrepreneurs" fan out into the neighboring communities to provide eye screenings, sell reading and sunglasses, and refer more advanced cases back to the store to see the optometrist.  They operate this model in India and El Salvador and have active plans to scale this model to several other countries in Central America including Honduras, Nicaragua, and Guatemala.  The Partnership model, typified by(contracted; show full)

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