Become a corporate partner

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

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).

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.

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 helped to raise money to 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 that supports Sightsaver to deliver eye care projects around the world.

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.