A talk with Dr. Jordan Kassalow about the field of social enterprise—how far it has come, where it’s gone astray, and where it’s headed. Earlier this month, the Schwab Foundation announced its 2012 ...

A veteran of years in international development, academia and the nonprofit sector, Ella Gudwin joined VisionSpring in 2015 as president and became CEO in 2019. Her enthusiasm for the 20-year-old ...

VisionSpring is launching a $70 million initiative, Livelihoods in Focus, to correct the vision of more than 6 million people by 2030. The initiative will focus on low-income tea, coffee, cocoa and ...

Ella Gudwin, SAIS '04 (MA), is the CEO of VisionSpring, a company that sells affordable eyewear. But her career as a social entrepreneur has taken many turns. Before joining VisionSpring, she was the ...

Across the globe, garment workers are some of the most poorly paid. And for those with as easily correctable of a condition as Presbyopia, the possibility of losing one’s job for not being able to ...

VisionSpring, the social enterprise committed to accelerating the use of affordable eyeglasses, has announced a new range of glasses to tackle blurry vision in Ghana. 3 million Ghanaians have ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The WHO is modeling its new Training in Assistive Products program after VisionSpring’s global methodology to ...

VisionSpring: The World Health Organization says that at least 2.2 billion across the world suffer from either distance or near vision impairment, creating effectively creating a huge global financial ...

Market open and close ceremonies take place daily at the Nasdaq MarketSite Studio in Times Square and around the globe. VisionSpring, a global social enterprise that accelerates the use of eyeglasses ...

Proper vision is essential for work and education. Put simply, if you can’t see, you can’t work or learn. In this way, clear vision is an economic development issue—across the developing world, there ...

VisionSpring (www.visionspring.org), the pioneering social enterprise working with a mission to provide clear vision to all through eyeglasses, announced the launch of ergonomic and affordable ...