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Read about Delta Zeta's partnership in the Starkey newsletter. Find out more the about great things our alumnae and collegiate members are doing to assist The Starkey Hearing Foundation's mission!
Mission Statement
The Starkey Hearing Foundation is organized to promote hearing health awareness; to provide hearing aids, hearing aid batteries, and other hearing care products to needy persons; and to support and conduct research and education in hearing; and to fulfill such other charitable purposes.
History
The Starkey Hearing Foundation, which was established in 1973 by Bill Austin, to help poor Americans with hearing disabilities, soon went international. Over the decades, Mr. Austin has sent teams of audiologists and hearing-aid technicians to more than 150 nations. Since 2000, they have fit over 80,000 people with more 160,000 hearing aids. Today the Foundation is sustained by the efforts of thousands of volunteers and donors around the world. Your support allows them to deliver more than 20,000 hearing aids annually through more than 150 hearing missions a year in countries stretching from
the U.S. to Vietnam. Besides giving the gift of hearing, the Foundation promotes hearing health awareness while supporting research and education.
From its headquarters in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the Foundation works globally for one simple reason: There is no feeling like being in a room with a child who hears its mother say, "I love you," for the first time. Best of all, it's easy for you to share in this life-changing experience because every dollar and every hour you contribute helps. Whether you participate by volunteering or help make a mission possible through a donation, you help give the gift of hearing.
Hear Now
Hear Now is a national non-profit program committed to assisting deaf and hard-of-hearing persons with limited financial resources who permanently reside within the United States. Hear Now was founded in 1988 and joined the Starkey Hearing Foundation in 1999.
The work of Hear Now is supported through the contributions of many benefactors. They receive no government funding. All donations – money, time, hearing aids – allow the program to survive and give the gift of hearing domestically. Hear Now has provided more that 65,000 children and adults with hearing aids when they otherwise would not have been able to afford them.
Hear Now accepts donations of old, used, and no longer used hearing aids. Since 2000, more than 23,000 hearing aids have been recycled and provided to Hear Now recipients.
How can you help the Hear Now program?
Alumnae and collegiate chapters are encouraged to collect hearing aids for the Hear Now program. Collection boxes can be ordered from National Headquarters, and additional resources can be found in our Resources section.
See the video "So the World May Hear" to learn more about The Starkey Hearing Foundation.
The Starkey Hearing Foundation/Delta Zeta Logo
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