Levi Strauss Foundation, VF Corporation, Warby Parker and Deckers Brands work with social enterprise VisionSpring and USAID. 188,000 apparel and footwear factory workers have vision corrected with ...

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 ...

The development sector—whose traditional ways of working are increasingly challenged by global crisis, conflict, and climate change threats that disproportionately impact the poor, women, and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Editor's Note: Jordan Kassalow is cofounder and chairman of VisionSpring, and has more than 20 years of experience providing eye care to the world's poor. My wet clammy cotton shirt stuck to my back, ...

'Imagine your company with no glasses. Now imagine India where the majority of people don't have glasses.' Eyes are an important organ for humans. Although it is hard to imagine a single second ...

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 ...

Having your eyes tested and choosing a pair of glasses in order to read or enable you to do your job better is something most in the western world take for granted. In many garment-producing countries ...