Portland
Vision To Learn launched in Portland, Oregon during the Fall of 2023, with broad support from the local community. Through this new initiative, Vision To Learn will provide vision screenings, eye exams and glasses to students in across the Portland metropolitan area all at no cost to the student or their families.
Vision To Learn is working with Portland Public Schools and David Douglas School District to serve schools throughout each district. Approximately 23,000 Portland students and 93,000 students across the state of Oregon go to school every day without the glasses they need to see the board, read a book, study math, or participate in the classroom. Vision To Learn is addressing this glasses gap that exists in Oregon by during our first year of operations providing an estimated 2,000 students in Portland with the glasses they need to see clearly in school and in life.
Oregon Supporters
Kristof Holiday Impact Prize
James & Sue Kelly
Oregon Strong
Spirit Mountain Community Fund
Timothy & Mary Boyle
Oregon Community Foundation
St. Michael & All Angels Episcopal Church
Press
Vision To Learn Named a Recipient of Spirit Mountain Community Fund Grant
Vision to Learn Founder Austin Beutner, Jim Kelly and New York Times Columnist Nick Kristof Address Vision Care Crisis Among School Children Across the Country
Oregon nonprofit brings free glasses to North Portland students
Contact
Cassie Regan
Oregon Program Manager
+1 (805) 801-9641
portland@visiontolearn.org
at Sitton Elementary on February 8.
![Three elementary school students sit in a gymnasium as they pose for a picture.](https://visiontolearn.org/wp-content/uploads/Sitton-Elementary-Pic-2-1080x1080-1.png)
![A child in a blue hoodie tries on a pair of glasses while standing in a Vision To Learn mobile clinic.](https://visiontolearn.org/wp-content/uploads/Faubion-PK-8-School-Pic-1-1080x1080-1.png)
![A child in a gray shirt looks through an autorefractor being operated by an optician in a black jacket.](https://visiontolearn.org/wp-content/uploads/Faubion-PK-8-School-Pic-2-1080x1080-1.png)
![Vision To Learn Founder Austin Beutner, Nick Kristof, Jim Kelly and Supt. Guadalupe Guerrero pose for a picture with a child who just received glasses from Vision To Learn.](https://visiontolearn.org/wp-content/uploads/Sitton-Elementary-Pic-1-1080x1080-1.png)
![A Vision To Learn mobile clinic parked at a curb in front of a school.](https://visiontolearn.org/wp-content/uploads/Oregon-Webpage-Picture-2.png)