Posted by By Miles Lengyel
Giving Back Beyond Borders
In addition to helping communities close to home, corporations have a wide range of options to extend their impact across the globe. By supporting international organizations like Save the Children, CARE, and World Vision, companies can turn their values into action—helping families recover from disaster, children return to school, and communities rebuild with dignity. Global giving isn’t charity; it’s shared humanity at scale.
Here are vetted organizations where employees can create programs to give back:
SAVE THE CHILDREN (www.SavetheChildren.org) is dedicated to helping children in 120 nations vulnerable to natural disaster, famine, disease outbreak, or war.
WORLD VISION (www.WorldVision.org) has immediate needs for food, water and shelter for victims of the Nepal earthquake. World Vision has an ongoing presence in Nepal and is assessing the damage and preparing response teams to serve the urgent needs of survivors.
C.A.R.E (www.care.org) stands for “Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere.” C.A.R.E. is a worldwide humanitarian organization, with an ongoing presence in Nepal. Staff who have been accounted for in Kathmandu are helping with disaster relief. Other staff are still missing. C.A.R.E. uses 90 percent of its donations for program activities.
GLOBAL GIVING (www.GlobalGiving.org) is seeking funds to “help first responders meet survivors’ immediate needs for food, fuel, clean water, hygiene products, and shelter. Once initial relief work is complete, this fund will transition to support longer-term recovery efforts run by local, vetted local organizations.
USA Text Donations: GIVE NEPAL to 80088 to donate $10 to Nepal Earthquake Relief Fund.
HANDICAP INTERNATIONAL (www.HandicapInternational.NationBuilder.com) has 47 staff in Nepal on an ongoing basis. They provide wheelchairs and assistance to Kathmandu Valley hospitals, which are now overwhelmed. Your donation helps them reach the most vulnerable earthquake survivors, including people with serious injuries and disabilities in remote areas.
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS (www.InternationalMedicalCorps.org) works on-the-ground coordinating staff and resources to support relief efforts worldwide. It now has staff in Kathmandu joining in the relief effort. USA Text Donations: MED to 80888 to give $10.
MERCY CORPS (www.MercyCorps.org) has launched the Nepal Earthquake Response fund to help provide food, water and temporary shelter in the aftermath of this disaster. Mercy Corps CEO Neal Keny-Guyer, speaking on the Nepal disasters, says, “As we better understand the needs on the ground, we will deploy our teams to where they’ll have the greatest impact.”
OXFAM (www.Oxfam.org) team is in Nepal assessing humanitarian needs. Technical experts are being sent with supplies to provide clean water, sanitation and emergency food supplies.
RED CROSS (www.ifrc.org) needs funds to get to remote areas near the epicenter where landslides have blocked roads and communications have been cut off. Red Cross hubs in New Delhi, Kuala Lumpur and Bankok are prepping resources to aid Nepal.
SAMARITAN’S PURSE (www.SamaritansPurse.org) is a Christian charitable organization also serving victims of disasters, famines and epidemics, providing food, water, shelter and medicine. “On a moment’s notice” it says it is ready to provide disaster relief in regions worldwide.
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