Saturday, November 5, 2022
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
Louisiana Children’s Museum

at City Park
15 Henry Thomas Dr., New Orleans, LA 70124

Your ticket includes:

• Free Admission to LCM at City Park (limited tickets)
• Donor Memorial Butterfly Release Ceremony
• Picnic Lunch
• Family Fun
• Crafts & Activities

Tickets for friends of Southern Eye Bank are $30 per person. T-shirts may be pre-ordered for $15 each or $20 each for sizes 3X-5X (limited supply available for purchase during the event). All proceeds from t-shirt sales fund the Gift of Sight Celebration. Children under 12 months old attend for free.

Sponsorship opportunities start at $300

Please contact Jennifer Babineaux for more information at jbabineaux@southerneyebank.org or 504.891.3937 ext. 1000.

If you cannot attend the event but would still like to make a donation, you may do so.

2020 and 2021 Donor Families and recipients, please call Southern Eye Bank for special rates, 504-891-3937 ext. 1000.

Thanks to our 2022 Community Sponsors

The Eye Bank Association of America (EBAA) wants to see things from your unique point of view! This year’s Share Your View photo contest celebrates the new perspective on life that corneal transplant recipients experience from having their sight restored and the change in viewpoint donor families express when the loss of a loved one also gives someone else the opportunity to see the world anew.

This year’s theme is A New View, and the contest is open to corneal transplant recipients, donor families, and corneal surgeons. To enter, snap a photo of a view that makes you cherish the gift of sight and submit the photo to the Share Your View entry page by September 15, 2022. The winners will be featured in the EBAA’s social media campaign for Eye Donation Month in November and receive prizes (to be announced soon)!

Click here for full contest details and information

Join Southern Eye Bank for an evening of bowling, zydeco music and dancing, delicious local fare, spirited competition, and prizes while raising funds to increase awareness about corneal blindness and eye donation!

Thursday, September 15
7pm – 9pm

Rock ‘n’ Bowl
3000 S. Carrollton Ave. • New Orleans, LA 70118
Lane assignments at 6:45pm

$275 for a team (6 players max)
$45 per person ($35 non-bowlers)

Registration Includes:

Bowling & Shoe Rental

Music

Soda, Wine & Beer

Food
Rock ‘n’ Bowl is serving up perfectly fried seafood, buffalo wings, pizza, mozzarella sticks, shrimp remoulade, and chicken & sausage jambalaya.

Sponsorship opportunities start at $500

Click here to download sponsorship form

Please contact Jenny Babineaux for more information at jbabineaux@southerneyebank.org or 504.309.0058

REGISTRATION IS CLOSED

See you next year!

All event proceeds support Southern Eye Bank’s community education and eye-donor awareness program.

Either at your local DMV or online, registering as an organ donor is easy.

When you sign up to be an organ donor, you can change lives for the better. Plus, it’s fast and easy. Here are all the ways you can do it if you live in Louisiana.

Online

1. The Louisiana Organ Procurement Agency (LOPA) is federally mandated to manage Louisiana’s organ recovery and allocation program. The non-profit agency focuses on educating the medical community and the general public about organ and tissue donation issues, works with families through the donation process, recovers donated organs and tissue, and places the organs and tissue for transplant. You can join the Louisiana Donor Registry online through the LOPA website.
2. Another place you can register online is through DMV.org (it’s also a treasure trove of general facts about organ donation, debunking donation myths, and local resources).
3. The Donate Life Louisiana website also contains many resources and the Louisiana Donor Registry website.

In Person

You can register to become an organ donor in person at your local LA OMV office. Just let the person processing your application know that you want to register as an organ donor. This works both to applying for and renewing your driver’s license.

By Phone

No access to the computer or can’t travel to a DMV? No problem. You can call LOPA toll-free at 1-800-521-4483 to join the organ donor database for the state of Louisiana.

Taking It to the National Level

Not in LA or moving out of state soon? The national registry database Organize.org will let you update/change your organ donor status and carry your registration from state to state. If you are not in Louisiana (or soon won’t be), you can also register for organ donation here.

About Organ Donation in Louisiana

You can find a ton more information about organ donation in LA at the resources mentioned above, but here are a quick few facts:

1. Your registration is legally binding. Per Louisiana’s Anatomical Gift Act, Louisiana is a first-person consent registry state, which means that your decision about donating is legally binding. That’s why it’s important to discuss your wishes with your family to ensure everyone is informed and on the same page.
2. Parental consent may be needed. There are no age limitations on who can participate in the organ donation program in Louisiana, but parental consent is required for minors under 18.
3. You or your family won’t pay any donation expenses. There are no fees for signing up to be an organ donor, and your family won’t be responsible for paying any medical costs related to your donation. The organ transplant program will pay all donation expenses.
4. Some common misconceptions about organ donation:

• Organ donation is not compatible with timely funeral arrangements or certain funeral rites. In fact, organ donation will not interfere with funeral and burial arrangements. Organ donation is permissible among all major world religions.
• Organ donation may necessitate a closed casket funeral. Organ donation does not disfigure the body.

Do you have any questions about organ donation? We’re happy to help! Contact us anytime at sebinfo@southerneyebank.org, or to learn more about how to sign up for organ donation and save lives.

November 2021 is officially Eye Donation Month in the State of Louisiana, by proclamation of Governor John Bel Edwards! Click here to view the official proclamation.

Due to COVID-19, many of our community events for 2021 have been redesigned as virtual events. Please join us as we continue to honor those who have shared the Gift of Sight.

EBAA Run for Vision 2021

• November 1 – 30
• Join ophthalmologists, eye bankers, corneal transplant recipients, and donor family members to support EBAA’s mission to restore sight through cornea donation and transplantation. Sponsored by Bausch + Lomb, EBAA is once again hosting their annual Run for Vision virtually from your home any time in November.
• Visit the EBAA Run for Vision site for more details, and click here to join the Southern Eye Bank race team! Our team will compete individually throughout the month of November. Send us your race photos to be featured on SEB’s social media!

Kendra Scott Donates To Southern Eye Bank on Purchases Made Nov. 18-19, 2021

Shopping for delicate, dynamic, and fine jewelry for birthdays, anniversaries, the holidays, or yourself? Consider shopping Kendra Scott Jewelry on November 18th or 19th, 2021.

November is Eye Donation Month! Kendra Scott is generously donating 20% of your purchase amount to Southern Eye Bank when you use the code GIVEBACK-AGDKU at checkout on November 18th and 19th, 2021. OR shop in-store from 5-7pm on November 18th and mention the code to the salesperson.

Donations go to support non-profit Southern Eye Bank’s mission to preserve and restore sight. Your support is crucial to us as Southern Eye Bank is one of the dwindling numbers of non-profit eye banks. Thank you for all you do!