Contributor benefits

Dr. Alexander Irvine and his granddaughters

Contribute to That Man May See and learn how your charitable gifts accelerate research aimed at fighting vision loss and blindness. Make an impact now – and for future generations. Enjoy the benefits of engagement in a meaningful cause that changes lives for the better, throughout the Bay Area and around the world.

 

Contributor Level

 Gift amount

      Benefits

Vision Partner $1 – $999
  • Recognition in our printed annual report
  • Invitations to symposia and other informational events
  • Stewardship report about how your contribution makes a difference
  • Complimentary subscription to Visions newsletter
Chairman’s Forum $1,000-$9,999
  • Recognition on framed honor rolls located in UCSF Ophthalmology clinics, on the website, and in the Visions newsletter and annual report
  • Special invitations to:
    • Vision Awards Dinner – honoring friends of That Man May See
    • Eye on the Arts – visiting significant art collections in the Bay Area to explore visual process (evenings at the de Young Museum and the Don and Doris Fisher gallery at Gap Inc., are examples of past collections viewed)
    • Receptions in private homes
    • Eye Openers – morning breakfast meetings with clinician scientists and basic researchers
    • Behind-the-scenes tour and lunch with UCSF Ophthalmology clinician scientists and basic researchers
    • Symposia and other informational events
  • Stewardship report about how your contribution makes a difference
  • Complimentary subscription to Visions
Director’s Council $10,000-$99,999
  • Recognition on framed honor rolls located in UCSF Ophthalmology clinics, on the website, and in the Visions newsletter and annual report
  • Special invitations to
    • Director’s Council Dinner – recognizing That Man May See’s major contributors
    • Vision Awards Dinner – honoring friends of That Man May See
    • Eye on the Arts – visiting significant art collections in the Bay Area to explore visual process (evenings at the de Young Museum and the Don and Doris Fisher gallery at Gap Inc., are examples of past collections viewed)
    • Receptions in private homes
    • Eye Openers – morning breakfast meetings with clinician scientists and basic researchers
    • Behind-the-scenes tour and lunch with UCSF Ophthalmology clinician scientists and basic researchers
    • Symposia and other informational events
  • Stewardship report about how your contribution makes a difference
  • Complimentary subscription to Visions newsletter
Visionaries $100,000+
  • Recognition with an elegant engraved glass plaque in the Koret Vision Research Laboratories, on framed honor rolls located in UCSF Ophthalmology clinics, on the website, and in Visions newsletter and That Man May See’s annual report
  • Special invitations to
    • Director’s Council Dinner – recognizing That Man May See’s major contributors
    • Vision Awards Dinner – honoring friends of That Man May See
    • Eye on the Arts – visiting significant art collections in the Bay Area to explore visual process (evenings at the de Young Museum and the Don and Doris Fisher gallery at Gap Inc., are examples of past collections viewed)
    • Receptions in private homes
    • Eye Openers – morning breakfast meetings with clinician scientists and basic researchers
    • Behind-the-scenes tour and lunch with UCSF Ophthalmology clinician scientists and basic researchers
    • Symposia and other informational events
  • Stewardship report about how your contribution makes a difference
  • Complimentary subscription to Visions newsletter
Endowment Ongoing gifts
  • In addition to the contributor level benefits, donors to long-term endowments establish a publicly recognized link to a program or an honoree and that endowment supports. Endowment contributors respond to a pressing concern today – attracting foremost clinician scientists to the faculty and to offering incentives for the most gifted and innovative faculty to achieve greatness over the next decades. Accomplishing this vision requires an endowment in perpetuity to attract and reward exceptional individuals.