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On Thursday, September 29th, Conexus hosted “Shirt Tales & Cocktails” – our first annual Community Celebration and Awards Reception at The Tuckahoe Woman’s Club. During the event, Conexus was thrilled to honor all the people that make our work possible including several special honorees. Conexus presented Matt DiNardo WRIC Meteorologist the Community Partner of the […]

Throughout the week of September 19th through September 23rd, WRVA 1140AM personality John Reid highlighted the work of Conexus in Central Virginia through their annual ‘Vision is Elementary’ campaign. All week on his program, John Reid interviewed special guests to discuss the role that Conexus has in bringing healthy vision to children across the Commonwealth. […]

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! Come join the Conexus team at Three Notch’d Brewing Company in Richmond on Friday, September 23rd to help raise funds for our healthy vision programs! Pints of our collaborative beer ‘Opticale’ will be available starting at 5PM — for every pint or 6-pack sold, Three Notch’d will donate $1 to Conexus! If […]

Conexus has a longstanding relationship with Petersburg City Public Schools, serving students with vision screening and eyecare. Today, Conexus leadership joined Governor of Virginia Youngkin and hundreds of community, business, nonprofit and faith leaders in Petersburg as the “Partnership for Petersburg” was launched. From the Governor’s Office: “Today, we formally launch the Partnership for Petersburg, […]

The start of the new school year is right around the corner and many children will be excited to see their friends again, be in a new classroom setting and have a new teacher.  However, if you are a student that cannot see the board clearly or read the textbook because of a vision problem, […]

Conexus recently stopped by WNRN’s Richmond studio to make a ‘Community Connection’ and share the importance remembering to ‘Blink 20’ – give it a listen by clicking HERE!

We have just closed out a record-breaking school year of service! More students in need were provided high quality, compassionate eye care than ever before in our 65-year history! Our team provided VisioCheck screenings to more than 95,000 students and we delivered on-site, school-based eye exams to more than 5,500 students, putting life-changing eyeglasses on […]

Conexus has delivered its final VisioCheck screenings for the 2021-2022 school year and the numbers are record setting! This school year, Conexus screened 95,094 students, finding 33,759 children with vision problems; a 34.9% referral rate; the national average is 25%. Our techs delivered services to schools in the Counties of Amelia, Bath, Brunswick, Buchanan, Caroline, […]

On March 30th at Jacobs Road Elementary School in Chesterfield County, the Conexus team delivered its 5,000th Mobile Vision Clinic exam during the 2021-2022 school year. FIVE THOUSAND!! What an incredible milestone and we were thrilled that Jacobs Road principal, Jennifer Lenz, and Jacobs Road nurse, Kathleen Smith, were able to join us for this […]