Advocacy for our patients and profession is important, and we continue to teach young ophthalmologists the need to stay involved. Ophthalmologists are outnumbered by optometrists 3:1, but out-donated them financially 10:1. Because of this, we are trying to impart knowledge to the next generation of leaders in our community. Ophthalmologists donate to the Surgical Scope Fund and/or OphthPAC. Our goal is to get 20% of our membership to donate! The DAO gets money from the Surgical Scope Fund to pay for our lobbyist, Anne Farley, so our membership benefits directly from these funds.