Hearing the world, one community at a time.

Hearing loss isn't a quiet problem. It isolates, depresses, and dismantles. It pulls children out of classrooms and grandparents out of conversations.

The cruelest part? Most of it is treatable. What’s missing is the system to deliver treatment where it’s needed most, and the funding to make it possible. HEAR exists to build both, through four commitments:

• Restoration — helping children and adults obtain hearing-restoration treatment they otherwise couldn’t access.
• Access — removing the barriers between patients and care: travel, lodging, facility and anesthesia expenses, and access to the right specialists.
• Education — guiding families through their treatment options, especially for congenital ear conditions such as microtia and atresia.
• Training — training surgeons and future specialists so expertise can spread internationally.

As a registered nonprofit, we put every dollar we raise into these programs, serving the youngest and oldest first, because they have the most to lose and the most to say.