Envision 20\/20: The Campaign to End Blindness<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kicking Off Envision 20\/20 with the Gordon & Llura Gund Family Challenge<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Gordon & Llura Gund and family are providing an extraordinary matching challenge grant to the Foundation Fighting Blindness. To encourage Envision 20\/20 Campaign support from new donors and increased support from current donors, the Gund family will provide a dollar-for-dollar match for all new and increased multi-year donations of $5,000 or more or one-time gifts of $25,000 or more. The challenge is an incentive to acquire new gifts or gifts that are increased over previous annual levels. The minimum eligible gift or increase is $25,000, although this amount can be pledged and paid over a five-year period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two primary objectives within the Envision 20\/20 Campaign led to the creation of the Gordon & Llura Gund Family Challenge. First, FFB must dramatically increase the amount of funding going directly to advanced pre-clinical and clinical trial work leading to treatments and therapies to preserve or restore vision. Second, FFB must increase the size and scope of its overall research portfolio, as the pace of research advancement is accelerating at an extraordinary pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Qualifying new gifts and gift increases will be directed either by the donor or through the Research Oversight Committee process to approved research projects. This means that 100% of qualifying gifts and increases will be allocated directly to research. Matching gifts from the Gordon & Llura Gund Family Challenge will be allocated to advanced pre-clinical and clinical trial work with broad research and patient application as recommended by the Research Oversight Committee. While donors can choose to direct their gifts to highly targeted and approved research programs, the Gund match will be allocated to broader, cross-cutting advanced research in areas such as gene, stem cell or drug development therapies. In all cases, 100% of qualifying gifts and the match are allocated directly to research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The need for funding is urgent and immediate. Our goal is to raise $50 million in qualifying gifts and pledges to be matched by another $50 million through the Gordon & Llura Gund Family Challenge. If we can exceed that goal, the match itself will be even greater. The Gordon & Llura Gund Family Challenge is a generous but true matching challenge; we must secure new and increased gifts to the Campaign to fully realize the potential of the challenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The challenge is effective May 1, 2014, and will apply to qualifying gifts and pledges made through June 30, 2016. There is no limit to the amount of a qualifying pledge, and no limit to the total amount of the Gordon & Llura Gund Family Challenge. Pledges must be paid in full by June 30, 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Foundation Fighting Blindness is in business to go out of business when it eradicates these diseases from the face of the world once and for all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":878,"template":"","region":[11],"class_list":["post-210","pledger","type-pledger","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","region-north-america"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n