Subject: Re: Debuque/vision to learn
From: Austin Beutner <[email-masked]>
To: "Kantor, Mickey" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 02:06:13 +0000

Thx, Mickey

The program provides those most in need a chance to succeed in school and in life. It's a great example of an innovative public/private partnership enabled by the ACA and it's great TV.  Hard not to smile when watching the Secretary putting glasses on an elementary school kid who is seeing the world clearly for the first time. And it's a safe way into education as we've the support of both teachers unions (pres of CTA is on our board) and reformers (Broad Foundation is a donor).

Might provide the networks with some good footage beyond the fog of trying to cover caucus goers.

Much more at visiontolearn.org<http://visiontolearn.org>

A

Austin Beutner
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>
(424) 785-4351

On Dec 21, 2015, at 4:21 PM, "Kantor, Mickey" <[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>> wrote:

John-vision to learn is a program to provide access to eye doctors and -when needed - glasses to first-third and fifth graders, we are now opersting in 4 srtates just after 2.5 years. We have screened over 250 thousand kids and provided over 35 thousand pairs of glasses. Iowa is the latest state we have entered. We are beginning to operate in dubuque. We will have a formal inaugeration between jan 25 and jan 29. We would set the date consistent with hillary's schedule. In almost all cases we have a bus that visits a school with the appropriate medical personnel to screen the kids --qand for those needing glasses we provide them usually within two weeks, by the way we give them a choice of frames from about 100 examples. Its a perfect for hillaryb and the vtl program in iowa. I serve as co-chair with austin beutner(its his idea and initiative-he's the former publisher of the l.a times) and ann hollister is the executive director. Is there someone ann could talk with to see if this works? Please let me know and happy holidays to you and your family--mickey

From: Ann Hollister [mailto:[email-masked]]
Sent: Monday, December 21, 2015 05:50 PM
To: Kantor, Mickey
Subject: Debuque

Hi Mickey,  We can do an event in Debuque with Hillary anytime between Jan 20th and Jan 29th.  Kids will be screened and glasses will be in hand and ready to be distributed.  Now that we have this nailed down does it make sense to follow up with any of the campaign staff?  Thanks,  Ann

Ann Hollister
Executive Director, Vision To Learn
(310) 893-2306
(310) 600-5809 (cell)
[email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>

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