New Eyes for the Needy is a non-profit organization started in 1932 as New Eyes (incorporated 1948[1]) and based in Short Hills, New Jersey, which provides people in the United States with eyeglasses and sends recycled eyeglasses to needy people overseas.[2][3][4]
- ^ "Charity Report: New Eyes for the Needy". Better Business Bureau. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ^ "New Eyes for the Needy, Inc". HealthFinder.gov. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Retrieved January 29, 2011.
- ^ The Rotarian March 1965 - Page 60 "The birth of New Eyes for the Needy dates back to 1932 and to a Red Cross food station in New York City, where Julia Ward Terry, then 65 years old, was a volunteer worker. Mrs. Terry noticed that some of the people who applied for aid could ..."
- ^ The Sight-saving Review -1954 Volumes 24 - 25 - Page 225 "New Eyes was founded in 1932 by the late Mrs. Julia Ward Terry, and is carried on by the Short Hills Junior Service League, under the chairmanship of Mrs. David Stagg. Volunteer workers sort over the piles of contributions."