Annual Events & Observances
EBAA Annual Meeting
The EBAA Annual Meeting, held each June, brings together hundreds of eye bank professionals and corneal surgeons for four days of sessions and activities designed to enhance attendees’ eye banking careers, connect with colleagues, and recommit to EBAA’s mission to #RestoreSight worldwide.
- 2025 Annual Meeting June 25-29 Loews Coronado Bay Resort
Eye Donation Month
For 35 years, EBAA and its member eye banks have utilized this commemoration to raise eye donation awareness, honor donors and their families and celebrate cornea recipients.
National Minority Donor Awareness Month
August is National Minority Donor Awareness Month (NMDAM). Its purpose is to save and improve the quality of life for diverse communities by creating a positive culture for eye, organ, and tissue donation.
National Donate Life Month
Donate Life America (DLA) has headlined the National Donate Life Month celebration since 2003. In conjunction with DLA, the nation’s eye banks, tissue banks, organ procurement organizations and other transplant groups celebrate this occasion annually in April, to acknowledge the extraordinary generosity of organ, eye, and tissue donors and their families, and to encourage fellow Americans to follow their example by registering as a donor.