Jonathan Yob on Blogger: Preserve Vision Florida’s Blog Features Monthly Vision-Health Topics

Friday, October 9, 2020

Preserve Vision Florida’s Blog Features Monthly Vision-Health Topics

Award-winning entrepreneur and philanthropist Jonathan “Jon” Yob leads the Yob Family Foundation in Tampa, Florida, and the JAY Management Corporation as the president. Over the years, Jonathan Yob has contributed to various Tampa-area charitable groups through his foundation and as a volunteer. Such organizations include Preserve Vision Florida, which explores a different vision-health topic on its blog every month in order to provide Floridians with essential information for preserving their sight.

For more than 50 years, Preserve Vision Florida has been supporting healthy vision among children and adults through free vision screenings and education services. During National Glaucoma Month in January, the organization’s blog shares information about the symptoms of glaucoma and how it can lead to blindness. The condition affects over 2.2 million adults in America over the age of 40 and is referred to as the “sneak thief of sight” due to its lack of warning signs. The following month, Preserve Vision Florida addresses age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and low-vision aids. Over the remaining 10 months, the organization covers such subjects as fireworks safety, ultraviolet rays, sports eye safety, and diabetic eye disease.

Jonathan Yob

A well-regarded Florida-based philanthropist, Jonathan Yob is the founder and president of the Yob Family Foundation (YFF), which is a premier sponsor of Zoo Tampa. In ongoing support of the Tampa landmark formerly known as Lowry Park Zoo, Jonathan Yob and his foundation facilitated the interactive koala experience after returning from Australia and witnessing these amazing marsupials. After extensive research and planning assuring the highest standard of care for the koalas, the exhibit opened in early 2019. At the opening, Jon Yob stated, "ZooTampa has been enjoyed by generations of visitors. They truly live their mission to rescue, rehabilitate, and care for hundreds of thousands of ailing animals. Without their care, most of these creatures would experience persistent health problems, or perish."
The Yob Family Foundation has a lengthy history of supporting ZooTampa, including helping to launch the annual ZooBrews fundraising event. The foundation funds and actively participates in numerous other philanthropic causes, working with Tampa General Hospital, Junior Achievement, Metropolitan Ministries, the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay, and A Kid's Place, just to name a few. The foundation emphasizes leveraging its resources with the resources of other like-minded individuals and organizations to maximize the success of each community project. Yob has been a sponsor and chair of the palliative care unit at TGH since 2012 and the following year, founded an annual Christmas event benefiting homeless families in partnership with Metropolitan Ministries and the Straz Performing Arts Center. Through the YFF, he sponsored the Florida Aquarium's highly successful "Journey to Madagascar" exhibit and the MacDill Air Force Base Marriage Retreat Project.
Outside of leveraging the foundation to support these, and many other organizations and initiatives, he develops marketing materials that target donors and identifies industry trends via social-media and online sources. The YFF has enacted numerous matching gift donations when necessary to reach fundraising targets.