Night for Sight Celebrates a Legacy of Care and Giving

Donors participating in the Moran Eye Center’s 2021 Night for Sight online event exceeded a fundraising goal of $1 million, generously funding the Global Outreach Division’s work to end curable blindness by increasing access to eye care in Utah and worldwide.

The October 9 gala and silent auction honored the life and legacy of the late Alan S. Crandall, MD. Proceeds will support general outreach program initiatives as well as the new Alan S. Crandall, MD, Endowment in Global Outreach for Patient Care, Teaching, and Training.

“I am awestruck by the outpouring of support we’ve received and I am just ecstatic that we met our fundraising goal,” says Moran CEO Randall J Olson, MD. “It’s an amazing tribute to Alan. I want to thank all of you—our sponsors, donors, committee members, board members, colleagues, patients, and friends—for seeing the need and rising to meet it. Alan would be proud and profoundly grateful to each of you.”

Olson joined auctioneer Bill Menish, a favorite from past Night for Sight events, onstage at The Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City for a broadcast streamed live via GiveSmart.

At left, Moran CEO Randall J Olson, MD, and auctioneer Bill Menish during the Night for Sight live stream at The Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City. At right, the hotel’s online production crew behind the scenes during the fundraising gala.

Supporters contributed more than $1.2 million as part of the event, including a $500,000 donation match from an anonymous donor.

Crandall, who passed away in October 2020, founded Moran’s earliest outreach program in 1992, following his own work in Ghana.

Funded solely by donors, Moran’s Global Outreach Division is now the largest academic ophthalmology outreach program of its kind in the United States.

The evening’s program included an emotional video tribute to Crandall. Moran also presented its Global Ambassador Award posthumously to Crandall. His wife, Julie Crandall, accepted the award from Olson.

About The Alan S. Crandall, MD, Endowment in Global Outreach for Patient Care, Teaching, and Training

This new endowment will ensure Crandall’s legacy of charitable eye care continues to have a lasting impact.

Crandall was a brilliant, caring surgeon who dedicated his many talents to helping others, training young surgeons, and providing eye care outreach in Utah and more than 20 countries worldwide.

Over his 39 years at the Moran Eye Center, Crandall’s care and consideration for his patients and colleagues shaped a culture of family.

Thanks to Night for Sight supporters and other donors, Moran is close to reaching an endowment fundraising goal of $2 million.

The funds from the endowment will go directly to Moran’s Global Outreach Division to provide excellent patient care and teach and train ophthalmologists in Utah and worldwide.

Through private investment and smart fiscal management, endowment funds vest over time, ensuring Moran will be able to continue Crandall’s legacy in perpetuity.

Alan S. Crandall, MD, examines a patient during an outreach trip to Tanzania.

MORE INFORMATION

If you have questions or would like to contribute to The Alan S.Crandall, MD, Endowment in Global Outreach for Patient Care,Teaching, and Training, contact Moran’s External Relations teamat 801-585-9700 or moran.info@hsc.utah.edu.

Video: Watch the Entire Event Or visit youtube.com/watch?v=qQj2UndHI38

Video: Tribute Video to Alan S. Crandall, MD Or visit youtube.com/watch?v=seDqqolAIj0

THANK YOU TO OUR GENEROUS SPONSORS AND VOLUNTEERS

Presenting Sponsors $25,000

Christine and Fred Fairclough

Huntsman Foundation

David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation

The Judelson Family Foundation

The Mitchell and June Morris Foundation

John and Marva Warnock

Platinum Sponsors $10,000

Altabank

Bonneville Real Estate Capital

Grandeur Peak Funds

Karen and Douglas K. Kelsey, MD, PhD

Lindsey and Jon Little

The Mark and Kathie Miller Foundation

Visionary Sponsors $5,000

Dr. Paul and Ann Bernstein

Brickwork Offices

The Gallivan Family

The Lipman Family Foundation

Semnani Family Foundation

Table Sponsors $2,500

Debbie and Byron Barkley

Bill and Vicki Bennion

Boyer Corporon Wealth Management

BMW of Murray

BMW of Pleasant Grove

Cadenza Family Dentistry

Culligan

Tom and Lynn Fey Foundation

FFKR Architects

Firmco Group of Companies

Dr. Nick and Mercy Mamalis Family

Markosian Auto

Mini of Murray

O.C. Tanner

Mimi Sinclair

Liz and Jonathan Slager

University of Utah Health

WCF Insurance

Night for Sight Event Committee

Lindsey Fairclough Little, Chair

Karen Bachman

Ann Bagley

Vicki Bennion

Ann Bernstein

Jane Cobabe

Julie Crandall

Christine Fairclough

Carol Firmage

Luella Freed

Heidi Furlong

Jill James

Marilee Latta

Anna Maidon

Mercy Mamalis

Karen Marsden

Lisa Peterson

Gretchen Pettey

Lincoln Shurtz

Mimi Sinclair

Liz Slager

Hayden Hull Williams

Moran Global Vision Board

Christine A. Fairclough, Chair

Deborah and Byron Barkley

Laurie Burt

Fred Fairclough

Lynn Fey

Carol Firmage

Luella Freed

Heidi Furlong

Lindsey Fairclough Little

Kathie Miller

Patrick Reddish

Hayden Hull Williams

Lisa Wirthlin