Help as a company
At Sightsavers we work hard to ensure that our corporate partnerships are mutually beneficial.
How we can work together
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Sightsavers has built strong relationships with many corporate partners who support us in various ways. Our sight-saving work wouldn’t be possible without their generosity.
In return for such generosity, we offer a range of clear business benefits. These include:
- Objectives that will contribute to your strategy
- Press and social media coverage
- Brand awareness
- Help fulfilling your CSR objectives
Your CRM initiatives
Cause-related marketing (CRM) initiatives are a great way to raise funds while also having a positive impact on sales and increasing brand equity for both partners.
There are plenty of CRM models that are very effective in a retail environment. These include:
- A fixed donation on a product or range of products where the donation equates to a specific element of Sightsavers’ work
- Social media engagement: recruit fans and encourage them to share content with a joint promotion
- Prompt payment: encourage corporate clients to settle invoices early with a donation made for payments received within a given period (such as 14 days).
Your CSR objectives
Sightsavers has a wide portfolio of sponsorship opportunities available for your company. Our team will help you find the right sponsorship package to add value to your business, gain great publicity and fulfil your CSR objectives.
How you and your employees can support Sightsavers
Get creative
Create an event such as ‘Bright for Sight’, where you encourage your employees to wear bright colours to work on World Sight Day in October, and give a donation to Sightsavers.
Get physical
Why not take part in a sporting event? We have places in UK events including marathons, fun runs and cycle rides, or encourage your staff to take part in their own local event.
Get support
We can also provide support for your employees’ own ideas: we have fundraising packs, posters, collection boxes, T-shirts and loads more information to help you raise money.
Sponsor a project
Many companies choose to sponsor a project in one of the countries where we work. Sponsorship packages range from funding a pioneering hospital in India to purchasing vehicles for outreach services in Africa.
Sightsavers is regarded as a leader in international development by our partners. The projects we support make a real difference to the lives of our beneficiaries, which is why many high-profile international and multinational companies choose to support our projects.
Other ways to give
Workplace giving
Sightsavers is a proud charity partner of Global Impact’s charity.org workplace giving campaign, which is currently open to public sector employees, as well as those at nearly 100 companies nationwide.
Gifts in kind
Sightsavers can benefit from donations of products or services that directly contribute to our work, including medical equipment, logistical support, media space or financial services.
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Our partners
We’re extremely grateful for the support of our corporate partners. These strategic partnerships make a huge contribution to our work and enable our partners to achieve their CSR objectives by making a tangible, sustainable impact in developing countries.
Optical Express
Leading eyecare provider Optical Express has been generously supporting Sightsavers’ A Million Miracles appeal by encouraging employees to donate an hour of salary, matching their donations and asking customers to donate.
eBay
In 2015, Sightsavers partnered with eBay to offer visitors the chance to donate to Sightsavers while buying and selling items online in auctions. More than US$60,000 was raised in the first year.
The L’Occitane Foundation
L’Occitane has awarded Sightsavers a grant to support our mission to eliminate trachoma and river blindness from three health districts in the Cascades region of Burkina Faso.
Merck & Co, Inc
Almost three decades ago, Merck & Co, Inc. announced that it would donate Mectizan® (ivermectin) for the treatment of river blindness, free of charge and for as long as needed. Sightsavers has been a leading partner since the start, distributing hundreds of millions of donated treatments to date.
Paperchase
Sightsavers is proud to be a Paperchase Charity Christmas Card partner. Paperchase and its customers have raised more than £180,000 to help prevent avoidable blindness around the world.
Standard Chartered
Seeing is Believing is Standard Chartered’s global charitable initiative to tackle avoidable blindness, and is run in partnership with the International Agency for Prevention of Blindness (IAPB).
ENGIE
Energy International is a leading independent global power plant developer and operator. Since the company began supporting Sightsavers, £190,000 has been given to eye care projects.
Dubai Duty Free Foundation
Every year for the past three years the Dubai Duty Free Foundation has donated US$100,000 to the Seeing is Believing project, helping to fund a million sight-restoring operations.
Emirates Airline
Skywards, the award-winning frequent flyer initiative from Emirates Airline, and its members have donated more than 50 million Skywards Miles to Sightsavers since 2007.
Rotork
Leading global manufacturing company Rotork is supporting Sightsavers’ work to eliminate river blindness, lymphatic filariasis and trachoma in Ghana, helping us protect millions of people.
Contact us today
United Kingdom
+44 (0) 1444 446 676
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Ireland
+353 (0)1 271 0238
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United States
+1 (800) 707 9746
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