OTHER COMMUNITY RESOURCES Fundraising to Combat Description COVID-19 Center for Disaster The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) is the only full-time national resource dedicated to Philantrophy helping donors maximize their impact by making more intentional disaster-related giving decisions. Charity Navigator Founded in 2001, Charity Navigator has become the nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities. In our quest to help donors, our team of professional analysts has examined tens of thousands of non-profit financial documents. We’ve used this knowledge to develop an unbiased, objective, numbers-based rating system to assess over 9,000 of America’s best-known and some lesser known, but worthy, charities. Charity Watch CharityWatch—founded 25 years ago as the American Institute of Philanthropy (AIP)—is America’s most independent, assertive charity watchdog. CharityWatch does not merely repeat what a charity reports using simplistic or automated formulas. We dive deep to let you know how efficiently a charity will use your donation to fund the programs you want to support. CharityWatch exposes nonprofit abuses and advocates for your interests as a donor. Direct Relief Direct Relief is coordinating with public health authorities, nonprofit organizations and businesses in the U.S., China and globally to provide personal protective equipment and essential medical items to health workers responding to coronavirus (COVID-19). Gates Philanthrophic Gates Philanthropy PartGates Philanthropy Partners currently has two funds dedicated to Partners fighting the COVID-19 pandemic. The Combating COVID-19 Fund will help develop promising vaccines and diagnostics and protect the most vulnerable. The COVID-19 Therapeutics Accelerator Fund will expedite the process of getting new treatments to market quickly. When recommending a grant to Gates Philanthropy Partners, please designate which fund you would like your grant to support.ners offers donors the opportunity to align their giving with Bill and Melinda’s philanthropic vision and to leverage the foundation’s resources, experience, operational infrastructure, and partnerships with extraordinary grantees. Good360 Good360’s mission is to transform lives by providing hope, dignity, and a sense of renewed possibility to individuals, families, and communities impacted by disasters or other challenging life circumstances who, without us, would struggle to find that hope. HELP USA HELP USA works to ensure that everyone has a place to call home. We provide shelter to meet people’s immediate needs, as well as the support they need to succeed for themselves, their families, and their communities. MedShare 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. Partners in Health Partners In Health is a social justice organization driven by the uncompromising belief that everyone, especially those most in need, deserves the right to health care. ©2020 American Hospital Association | April 2020 Page 1 | www.100millionmasks.org OTHER COMMUNITY RESOURCES (CONTINUED) Fundraising to Combat Description COVID-19 (CONTINUED) Project C.U.R.E. Today, we operate huge distribution warehouses in six major cities across the U.S. as well as a network of smaller collection centers across other states where donated items are gathered and then delivered to our warehouses. With the help and generosity of our partners and volunteers, we deliver more donated medical supplies and equipment to under-developed regions than any other organization in the world. Team Rubicon Mobilizes military veterans to help people respond to and recover from disasters. During the covid-19 crisis, the organization is helping local, state and federal partners deliver food, water and shelter; run testing sites; staff call centers; and transport cruise ship passengers who have completed their mandatory quarantine at home. The CDC Foundation Funds raised by the CDC Foundation through our Emergency Response Fund will be used to meet fast-emerging needs identified by CDC to help respond to the public health threat posed by this virus. These include additional support for state and local health departments, support for the global response, logistics, communications, data management, personal protective equipment, critical response supplies and more. The National Association of To ensure that the medically underserved have access to affordable quality health care Free & Charitable Clinics United Nations Foundation We advance human dignity and protect the planet through our work on transformative issues critical to humanity’s shared future. United Way United Way is engaged in nearly 1,800 communities across more than 40 countries and territories worldwide. We are focused on creating community-based and community-led solutions that strengthen the cornerstones for a good quality of life: education, financial stability and health. World Central Kitchen World Central Kitchen is a not-for-profit non-governmental organization devoted to providing meals in the wake of natural disasters World Health Organization COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund - Help WHO fight COVID-19 ©2020 American Hospital Association | April 2020 Page 2 | www.100millionmasks.org OTHER COMMUNITY RESOURCES (CONTINUED) Grocery Delivery/ Description Food Donation Feeding America Feeding America allows you to search for food banks in your area. Many food banks across the U.S. are now putting their resources toward dealing with the COVID-19 outbreak directly. In Tennessee, for example, the Mid-South Food bank is assembling boxes of nonperishable food for those in quarantine, and others will accept donations online. Invisible Hands Free deliveries for the most at-risk community members facing COVID-19. Currently Servicing the greater New York area and parts of New Jersey! More locations coming soon… Meals on Wheels Vulnerable seniors are at the greatest risk amid COVID-19. Local Meals on Wheels programs are on the front lines every day, focused on doing all they can to keep older Americans safe and nourished in communities across the country. Blood Donation Description AABB (formerly known as AABB encourages eligible individuals to donate blood regularly to help ensure that this the American Association of lifesaving resource is readily available to patients whenever and wherever it is needed. Blood Banks) American Red Cross Learn more on blood, platelet and plasma donation from American Red Cross Blood Blood Services Services - including a ZIP Code lookup for donation sites. America’s Blood Centers America’s Blood Centers is urging healthy individuals to schedule appointments to donate. Armed Services Blood The Armed Services Blood Program (ASBP) provides quality blood products for service Program members, veterans and their families in both peace and war. As a joint operation among the military services (Army, Navy, Air Force), the ASBP has many components working together to collect, process, store, distribute, and transfuse blood worldwide. Blood Centers of America BCA is a reliable, national organization comprising over 50 independent community blood centers and source plasma collection centers with a deep local commitment to the communities you serve. Vitalant Vitalant, one of the nation’s oldest and largest nonprofit community blood service providers, supplies comprehensive transfusion medicine services to nearly 1,000 hospitals and health care partners for patients in need across 40 states. ©2020 American Hospital Association | April 2020 Page 3 | www.100millionmasks.org.
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