{"id":3578,"date":"2020-02-26T13:51:22","date_gmt":"2020-02-26T18:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.qc.cuny.edu\/?p=3578"},"modified":"2026-01-05T14:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T19:37:07","slug":"eyeglass-donation-program-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/2020\/02\/26\/eyeglass-donation-program-begins\/","title":{"rendered":"Eyeglass Donation Program Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Program Completed in 2020. Library no longer accepting donations.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"Eyeglasses\"The Library is working with students from Future Healers of America-Queens College\u00a0and the QC Optometry Club to help you do some good with your old eyeglasses.<\/p>\n

We are collecting donations of gently used eyeglasses at the library’s Borrowing Desk. Items will be sent to New Eyes for the Needy, a 501(C)(3)charity that accepts, recycles, and distributes glasses to those in need.<\/p>\n

Does your QC student club want to learn how the library’s spaces and staff can help support your projects?\u00a0Talk to us!<\/p>\n

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Program Completed in 2020. Library no longer accepting donations.\u00a0 The Library is working with students from Future Healers of America-Queens College\u00a0and the QC Optometry Club to help you do some good with your old eyeglasses. We are collecting donations of gently used eyeglasses at the library’s Borrowing Desk. Items will be sent to New Eyes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"\r\n

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The Library is working with students from Future Healers of America-Queens College<\/a>\u00a0and the QC Optometry Club to help you do some good with your old eyeglasses.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

We are collecting donations of gently used eyeglasses at the library's Borrowing Desk. Items will be sent to New Eyes for the Needy<\/a>, a 501(C)(3)charity that accepts, recycles, and distributes glasses to those in need.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Does your QC student club want to learn how the library's spaces and staff can help support your projects?\u00a0Talk to us<\/a>!<\/p>\r\n","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qc.cuny.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}