The Western Glaucoma Foundation is qualified for tax exempt status.   You may send a check or money order to P.O. Box 1567 Portland OR 97207.   Feel free to contact Griff Samples at 503 490 3424 with questions or IRS qualification information.    A complete report of expenditures is available to all donors in the form of an excel spreadsheet.  The foundation completely protects the privacy of its donors.   Corporate donors will be acknowledged if they wish

 

Some donors to the foundation have voiced an interest in very specific projects.    We are happy to discuss this so long as the goals are consistent with the published mission statement of the foundation.   Conceptually we want to do targeted focal research that will make a difference in finding the cause of cure of open angle glaucoma.   We also have very specific clinical care and training objectives which we believe will be the most effecitve..   

 

We believe in an active business model with no-overhead for fighting disease.   Our approach is typified in the approach that Augie Nieto has taken for ALS.   See Augie's Quest By Augie Nieto and T.R. Pearson, Bloombury, 205 pages, $21 or the article in the New York Times on Friday November 16, page W6, "The Business of Fighting a Deadly Disease."