FAQ

Anyone can! Just be sure to sign the indemnification form.

You can register quickly and easily online. Choose the "Walks" drop down and select the walk you will be participating in. You should see a "Register" button. You can also register by contacting us to get a brochure for manual registration and fundraising.

There is no registration fee for the 2020 Anything for Vision Virtual Fundraiser. T-shirts will still be given out, but individuals must raise $50 to receive it. Teams must raise an average of $50 per team member for all to receive a T-shirt.

Example 1) A team of 10 members needs to raise at least $500 dollars to have everyone receive a t-shirt. Only 1 person on the team is successful in collecting funds and raises $500. The entire team would get a T-shirt.

Example 2) An individual collects $30 in donations. This individual would then have to donate $20 additionally to receive a T-shirt.

Example 3) A team of 10 members raises only $400. This would mean that 8 team members would receive a T-shirt.

To do this follow these steps:

1. Enter in registration information of a person with an email. This is the first prompt that pops up when you click "Register"
2. select either "Join Team" or "Create Team" 
3. Complete registration for yourself
4. Click "Add More Participants"
5. Slide "Register with email and create fundraising page" bar to no

This allows you to register the child without having to put an email in. By not putting in an email, the child will not be a fundraiser and will not have their own fundraising page. They will still receive a T-shirt. 

Also, registering via this pathway does not exempt the team from the minimum fundraising amount. 8 Adults with 2 children means that the team must raise $500 to have everyone receive a T-shirt.

Because of the circumstances regarding the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Walk for Vision will now be a Do Anything for Vision! There will be no in-person event. Fundraisers will walk, hike, bike, dance, DO ANYTHING to raise funds and awareness for ocular inflammatory disease. There will be a YouTube live event that can be accessed here.  

The money raised goes towards the ground breaking research and educational efforts of OIUF in the eradication of ocular inflammatory diseases.

Yes. You can make a donation to a fundraiser on a team or you can make a general team donation.

All donations should be mailed to:

Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation
P.O. Box 646
Weston, MA 02493

Please make all checks payable to: Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation.
Please make sure that in the memo it says and who the donations should be credited to.

Click on the home page and begin typing the first or last name. Your options will display as you type.

Any donation made online should post immediately. If an online donation does not post within 5 minutes, please contact us.

If you check this checkbox, you will be charged the amount indicated next to the checkbox. This amount will also be visible to the non-profit. However, on the fundraising page, your intended - initial donation amount will be displayed.

All monetary donations are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Yes. For Canadian donations made online with a credit card, the amount entered in the online donation form will be in U.S. dollars.

Any donor who mailed their donation and provided an address will receive a receipt via mail once the donation has been processed. If you made your donation in installments, you will receive a receipt each time a monthly payment is processed.

Yes, anyone who donates online, regardless of the amount, will receive a receipt via email.

A Tax ID number identifies Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit Organization. The Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation Tax ID number is

When you make a donation online, you can designate what you want to appear as your recognition name on the participant's Honor Roll. This may be your name, or it could be something such as "From the whole Wolf family" or "in memory of Aunt Cathy."

If a donation check has been written out to you personally, you may endorse the back of the check and mail it in with a completed donation form to Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation.

It is not a good idea to send a cash donation in the mail. You may drop off the cash at Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation along with your information or you can deposit the cash into your checking account and send a personal check from your account. 

Any donation made online should post immediately. If your donation does not post within 5 minutes, please contact Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation.

You can't enter a check online. What you can do is enter a check as a pledge. This can be done in the fundraising section of your headquarters page. The status of the check will be pending until the check is received by Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation.

A Tax ID number identifies Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Many donors will request this number to validate their donation as tax-deductible. The Ocular Immunology & Uveitis Foundation Tax ID number is .

As your donors make a contribution, they have the option of whether or not they want to appear in the Honor Roll.

Log in with your email and password to visit your headquarters page. Select ‘My Fundraising Report on the left side. You will then find a list of all of your donors as well as a list of all donors to your team .

To easily send thank-you emails to donors, follow these steps:

1. Log in to your fundraiser dashboard by clicking the "My HQ" link in the top right
2. Click "My Fundraising Report" in the left sidebar
3. Locate the donor/donation you'd like to thank, and click "Send Email" (If the donor didn't submit their email address, this option is unavailable.)
4. Type the message in the pop-up window, and click "Send Email"

You are receiving these emails because we would like to keep you updated on your fundraising efforts. If you wish to stop receiving these updates, please login to your headquarters and edit your account preferences.

A personal URL is a shortened link to your team or personal page that you can send to friends and family in emails. A personal URL will look like this https://walkforvision.rallybound.org/anything-for-vision-2021/ben.

When a donor makes a donation online, s/he can enter text to appear on the fundraising honor roll. This may be the donor's name, or it could be something like "From the whole Wolf family" or "In Memory of Aunt Cathy".