Great job on a fabulous VisionWalk! We had sunny skies, enthusiastic walkers, and plenty of VisionWalk spirit! With more than 1200 people in attendance this was our largest Chicago VisionWalk raising over $316,000 for research!!

The Inaugural Hampton Roads VisionWalk was a tremendous success! Over $70,000 was raised for sight saving research! Thanks to each and every one of our over 500 VisionWalkers!

Over 200 guests joined the St. Louis Chapter of Foundation Fighting Blindness as they hosted the their 3rd Annual Dining in the Dark Visionary Awards Diner on Wednesday, May 16, 2012 at the Hilton St. Louis Frontenac. The dinner raised an astounding $480,000 for retinal disease research.

On June 14^th, Foundation Fighting Blindness trustees, Barbara & Joel Stone and Bruce Grieve, hosted the 11^th Annual Artistry of Wine event at the Green acres Country Club in Northbrook.  We had sunny skies, over 200 guests, and plenty of great food and a superb selection of wine & spirits.   With over 60 baskets in our Silent Auction this year, guests were lined up and eager to bid on some fantastic items.  We had a lovely tasting palette this year with four new tasting stations in addition to ten restaurants that have attended in previous years.  Artistry of Wine would not have been possible without the leadership of our event chairs Joel & Barbara Stone, our Honorary chair Bruce Grieve, and the entire planning committee.  Leading sponsors include: Gordon & Llura Gund, Joel & Barbara Stone, Fields Auto Group, and Leo Burnett Worldwide.   Another big thank you to our sponsors, donors and attendees who helped make this year’s event a huge success.  With everyone’s devoted work we surpassed our goal of $60,000 and have hit $63,753 with money still coming in- what an incredible success! 

Thank you to everyone who joined  us for the 4th Annual Utah VisionWalk at Sugar House Park – Salt Lake City! We had over 150 walkers and 19 fantastic teams participate in this year’s VisionWalk to help Foundation Fighting Blindness raise over $31,000 (and counting) for critical retinal degenerative disease research!

The Foundation Fighting Blindness hosted the inaugural Minneapolis Dining in the Dark Visionary Awards Dinner on Wednesday, May 23 at the Marquette Hotel, Minneapolis.  The Foundation proudly honored Matt Clysdale, President Maguire Agency and Dr. Raymond Iezzi, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Mayo Clinic.  The event was co-chaired by Mark Valenziano and Julie Anderson.

Congratulations Dallas VisionWalkers!

We had a wonderful walk day on Saturday, May 19th with over 600 participants walking with us. Thanks to everyone who came out and made the day so much fun! Together we have raised over $75,000 and we're not stopping there! We can continue to collect donations until June 30th, so be sure to turn in any last minute donations to help get us to our $125,000 goal. You can send donations to:

Thank you to everyone who joined  us for the 7^th Annual Orange County VisionWalk at Angel Stadium - Anaheim! We had over 500 walkers and 38 fantastic teams participate in this year’s VisionWalk to help Foundation Fighting Blindness raise over $115,000 for critical retinal degenerative disease research!

Great job on a fabulous New York City VisionWalk! On Saturday, April 21^st we had sunny skies, enthusiastic walkers, and plenty of VisionWalk spirit! With more than 500 people in attendance at the Central Park Bandshell this was one of our largest New York City VisionWalks yet!

Over 200 guests joined the Foundation Fighting Blindness and Gavin Herbert Eye Institute as they hosted the Orange County Shine the Light Visionary Awards Diner on Thursday, March 22, 2012 at the Fairmont Newport Beach.  For the past five years, the focus had been on the darkness associated with vision loss through the Dining in the Dark theme, but this year we decided to “Shine the Light” as we highlighted cutting-edge research and progressive clinical trials that light the way to finding treatments, preventions, and cures for blinding eye diseases.