Get Involved with Medshare

Get Involved with MedShare

A guide to engaging your organization's Corporate Social Responsibility goals with MedShare's mission.

2019

www.medshare.org Our Mission

MedShare is a 501c(3) humanitarian aid organization dedicated to improving the quality of life of people, communities and our planet by sourcing and directly delivering surplus medical supplies and equipment to communities in need around the world. In our 20 year history, MedShare has donated over $220 million worth of life saving medical supplies and equipment to serve more than 20 million patients in 103 countries. MedShare has equipped more than 800,000 healthcare professionals with the tools they need to save lives. In addition to our donations, MedShare’s engineers have provided biomedical equipment training and support to over 7,000 healthcare professionals across the globe.

MedShare has earned a 4-star rating by Charity Navigator for 14 consecutive years for excellence in financial accountability and transparency!

$13 million 1.5 million 67 50,000 in aid patients served by countries received healthcare donated in 2018 MedShare donations MedShare supplies professionals in 2018 in 2018 equipped in 2018 Our Volunteers

Shree Swaminarayan Temple volunteers serve at MedShare’s Northeast Region Volunteer Center regularly.

20,000 volunteers drive our global impact. Without these dedicated humanitarians, our mission would not be possible. Thanks to their tireless work, MedShare has delivered well over 6,000 tons of medical supplies and equipment to communities in need that would have otherwise been needlessly wasted. Our volunteers not only expand healthcare access in 100 countries, they also protect the health of our planet. MedShare’s volunteers have diverted more than 3.8 million cubic feet of quality medical products from local landfills and reduced our community’s burden on the environment.

Our Volunteer Centers host groups from the Greater Atlanta Area, the San Francisco Bay Area, and the New York City Metro Area five days a week for three hour sessions to advance our global health mission and improve healthcare locally and globally.

19,000 112 810 1.8 million volunteers deliveries to engineers, technicians, pounds of quality medical and end-users trained products diverted from engaged in 2018 healthcare partners landfills in 2018 in 2018 in 2018 Volunteer With Us

Volunteer at MedShare Join us at our volunteer center for a three hour sort session! Your team will sort, prepare, and package medical supplies for delivery to healthcare communities in need. After your session, our volunteer team will let you know how many patients you impacted, how many healthcare professionals you equipped, and which countries your team supported during your volunteer session!

Host a Clean Birthing Kit Event MedShare will bring the volunteer opportunity to you! Your team will create Clean Birthing Kits for mothers and infants in medically underserved communities where women often give birth on the floor. An initiative of MedShare’s Maternal & Child Health Program, Clean Birthing Kits include essential supplies needed for a safe and hygienic birth outside of a medical facility. Kits created by your team will protect the lives of mothers and babies at risk of serious diseases. Clean Birthing Kit events are not only a great team-building opportunity, they are also extremely rewarding for your employees! MedShare will customize the event to meet your organization’s needs, accommodating your schedule, space, and group size. Organizations that have hosted their own Clean Birthing Kit Volunteer Projects include King & Spalding, Johnson & Johnson, and CNN.

Environmental Impact Session Your employees will volunteer alongside our operations team as MedShare diverts essential medical supplies from being needlessly wasted in local landfills. Sorting through medical surplus, your team will recycle medical materials and packaging that would clutter landfills for decades. Your employee volunteers will organize and package supplies to ensure that surplus items are utilized to their full potential and prevent unnecessary waste upon arrival in international communities. Upon completion of your activity, your team will find out how many pounds of supplies they saved from local landfills!

The Atlanta Hawks staff hosted their first annual Unity Day at Medshare in support of hurricane relief.

www.medshare.org Team Fundraising

Fundraise for a community in need Bring your team together by fundraising for an international healthcare community in need! Support better health in one of the 103 countries MedShare serves by raising funds for the delivery of lifesaving medical supplies and equipment. MedShare will provide your organization with a custom, co-branded donation webpage to make online giving easy! Your team will receive a profile on the community you’re serving, you’ll have an opportunity to visit MedShare as we send the delivery off, and you’ll receive feedback from your sponsored healthcare community once the supplies have been distributed.

Raise money for a program Align your team’s fundraising with one of MedShare’s programs. By fundraising for one of these areas, your team can equip communities with the tools they need to solve major health problems, contribute to the long-term health and success of medically underserved populations, and empower communities to better address their specific health needs. • Maternal & Child Health • Infectious Disease Control & Prevention • Disaster Relief • Biomedical Equipment Training & • Primary Care Repair Service

Matching Gifts and Volunteer Grants Every year, about $6 to $10 billion in matched donations are left unclaimed. Prior to volunteering with MedShare, check with your organization or visit www.doublethedonation.com/medshare to see if your company offers a matching gift or volunteer grant program. MedShare is a qualifying organization under health and human services, and environmental organizations. Corporate volunteer grant programs convert supporter time and effort into tangible funds. Your organization may provide grants for your group volunteer session, or for employees who volunteer regularly. Check with your company to ensure your involvement with MedShare makes the greatest impact!

The Atlanta Hawks staff hosted their first annual Unity Day at Medshare in support of hurricane relief. Over 40 Deloitte employees volunteered at MedShare’s San Leandro Volunteer Center for their day of service. www.medshare.org www.medshare.org Sustainable Development Goals

SDG’s at MedShare MedShare’s mission and programs align with many of the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals.

MedShare provides quality MedShare’s Biomedical Equipment medical supplies and equipment Training and Repair Service equips to communities without resources, biomedical technicians and end- enabling treatment and care users in low-resource areas with state- for individuals and healthier of-the-art biomedical equipment communities overall. education and marketable skills for employment.

By expanding access to health MedShare collects surplus medical services for individuals in supplies and prevents quality developing nations and low- equipment from being wasted in resource communities, MedShare local landfills. We minimize the reduces inequalities in healthcare, number of new resources produced specifically reducing inequalities based on sex, and limit the amount of waste and pollutants disability, origin, or economic status. generated by local health systems.

MedShare takes action on climate Our mission has achieved success change by actively reducing the thanks to strong partnerships carbon footprint of the healthcare with governments, private sector industry. Our surplus recovery organizations, and other NGO’s. efforts and biomedical equipment Specifically, MedShare addresses repair service have eliminated 3.6 million cubic SDG 17’s sub-goals of Capacity-Building and feet of waste. Systemic Issues.

MedShare has strengthened health systems in 100 countries, utilizing surplus medical supplies recovered from manufactures and hospitals and reducing the burden on our local landfills.

www.medshare.org Social Media Reach

Engage with our global audience! Just like our humanitarian outreach, MedShare’s social network spans the globe! Our corporate sponsors are proud to share the impact we make together around the world. In addition, many of the healthcare professionals we serve follow MedShare on social media, keeping up to date on what we’re doing and updating us on the impact of our donations in-country. When your team chronicles their volunteer opportunity and tags MedShare, they’ll be engaging directly with the communities we serve around the world!

MedShare is active across platforms MedShare is active on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and YouTube. With tens of thousands of active followers across our channels, MedShare can ensure that your brand makes the best possible first impression with new audiences. Plus, when your team engages with any of our channels, they’ll have an opportunity to see the incredible impact that their involvement with MedShare is having around the world! Visit us on social media: • Facebook: @medsharemission @medsharewesternregion • YouTube: @medshare2014 • Twitter: @medshare • Instagram: @medshareofficial • LinkedIn: @MedShare

Engage with MedShare on social media and introduce your organization to a new global audience. www.medshare.org www.medshare.org

Volunteer Testimonials I came as a volunteer“ with my company and I had a life changing experience. … I encourage other companies to get their employees out there to volunteer. Volunteering as a team is a great team building “activity and it’s very rewarding to see the effect on the lives of people around the world. Moji G., Corporate Volunteer

My colleagues and I have had a great experience working with MedShare. The volunteer staff is always willing to provide“ special schedule accommodations to fit different corporate teams from “AT&T. Thanks to MedShare’s vision twenty years ago, medical equipment and supplies have been mobilized to places where they are most needed instead of ending up in landfills.

Meena Gurumoorthy, Senior Technology Security, AT&T

We always recommend this place for team volunteer activities, or even to go in as an individual. It is time worth spent and I know“ I will continue to volunteer here as often as I can. The process is “organized and the staff is friendly! At the end of the shift, they’ll tell you how much you’ve sorted and where it would possibly be delivered. The feeling of accomplishment is FANTASTIC!

Chitra Rangabashyam, OASIS at AT&T