About Us
Our Mission: To empower the optometric profession in providing awareness and access to health and vision care for the public.
The AOA Foundation...empowering the profession
The American Optometric Association (AOA) has always supported charitable efforts relating to eye health and vision care. In 2006, AOA formally created The AOA Foundation to further the profession and increase access. With our strategic ties with the AOA, strong volunteer leadership, and generous donors, The AOA Foundation is able to manage InfantSEE®, administer Optometry’s Fund for Disaster Relief, provide scholarship grants for educational assistance and maintain the Archives and Museum for the optometric profession.
Our Programs
2025 Golden Opportunity Award Applications Open
Dream of owning your own independent practice? Doctors of Optometry can apply through January 15, 2025.
Field Notes: Florida doctor recounts hurricanes Helene, Milton
Media reports describe “devastating” winds, rain and flooding as Hurricane Milton makes landfall—how a Tampa Bay area doctor comes to terms with not one but two hurricanes in as many weeks.
AOA Foundation emergency appeal for Helene-ravaged states
In the devastating path forged by Hurricane Helene, shell-shocked residents & AOA members are putting their lives back together.