Corporate Giving Contact: John Albinazi, (212) 655-3759
Individual Donations: (888) 392-0392
Web Address:www.dwb.org

   Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontieres) is the world's largest independent international medical relief agency aiding victims of armed conflict, epidemics, and natural and man-made disasters, and others who lack health care due to geographic remoteness or ethnic marginalization. With offices in 19 countries, the organization annually has more than 2,000 volunteers representing 45 nationalities working in over 80 countries They work in the front-line hospitals, refugee camps, disaster sites, towns, and villages. The team doctors provide primary health care, perform surgery, vaccinate children, rehabilitate hospitals, operate emergency nutrition and sanitation programs, and train local medical staff.

Doctors Without Borders has a wide range of expertise and proven techniques and strategies of intervention. When medical assistance is not enough to save lives, Doctors Without Borders will speak out against human rights abuses and violations of humanitarian law that its teams witness in the course of providing medical relief.

Corporate Giving Contact: (888) 511-6498
Individual Donations: (888) 511-6565
Web Address:www.worldvision.org

   For 50 years, World Vision has been saving children from disease, poverty, injustice, and hunger the world over. Feeding the spirit as well as the body, we bring the same compassion to families and communities here in the United States. Through a coast-to-coast network of local partnerships with churches and other faith-based groups, World Vision is helping inner cities and rural neighborhoods pull themselves out of crisis. Their overall mission is to to move struggling children and families from poverty to health and wholeness.

Nationwide last year, more than 85,000 volunteers spent over 617,000 hours in service to benefit at-risk children and their families. At least 7,100 churches and local faith-based organizations partnered with World Vision, helping to meet the needs of more than 730,000 children and adults.

Corporate Giving Contact:Dan O'Brien, (404) 681-2552 ext.175, (800) 422-7385
Individual Donations: (800) 521-2273
Web address:www.care.org

   CARE stands for the Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe.

CARE was founded in 1945 when 22 American organizations formed a cooperative to rush lifesaving CARE Packages to survivors of World War II. The first 20,000 food parcels, each the gift of an American who cared, reached the battered port of Le Havre, France, on May 11, 1946. One of those Americans was Harry S. Truman, who sent 100 CARE Packages at a White House ceremony on May 8, 1946

Some 100 million more CARE Packages followed in the next two decades, reaching people in need, first in Europe and later in Asia and other regions of the developing world.

Over the years, CARE has adapted to meet changing human needs. In the 1950s, it expanded into emerging nations and used U.S. surplus food to feed the hungry. In the 1960s, CARE pioneered primary health care programs. In the 1970s, CARE responded to massive famines in Africa and helped prevent them with an innovation called agroforestry, which integrated environmentally sound tree and land management practices with farming programs.

Today our staff of over 10,000, most of whom are citizens of the countries in which we work, delivers a "CARE Package" that encompasses programs in emergency relief and rehabilitation; education; health and population which includes maternal and child health, reproductive health and water and sanitation; and income which includes small economic activity development, agriculture and community development and the environment.

   Save the Children promotes locally appropriate programs in education, health care, environmentally sound agriculture, and economic productivity. Save the Children was created in 1932 in New York City to respond to the needs of the children of coal miners in Appalachia. During World War II it expanded operations to Europe, aiding displaced children with clothing and food and helped communities rebuild in eight European countries. Back in the U.S., Save the Children began working with Native Americans in 1948, when a devastating blizzard hit the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. The organization took a leadership role in the late 1950s redefining international development and creating models for the effective transfer of appropriate technology and skills in such areas as sustainable agriculture, small enterprise and health.

SERVICES

Technical Assistance
Save the Children tested a new approach that addressed community-wide needs, such as building roads and improving water supplies, along with needs specific to children in the Dominican Republic in 1972. This "high impact" approach, which facilitated long-term improvements in children's lives, was replicated around the world.

Child Care
Realizing the importance of providing quality child care for children, Save the Children launched the Family Day Care Network in the state of Georgia in 1978. Now serving 7,400 children, the network has trained more than 1,200 low-income family day care providers and helped families identify quality care.

Child Survival
In 1985, Save the Children launched a major child survival initiative to help families to provide better care for their children and to coordinate medical care, water resource development and sanitation improvements. Save the Children's health programs continue to center around child survival, maternal health care and AIDS awareness, as well as nutrition, clean water and sanitation.

Development/Relief
Through the 1980's, Save the Children responded to the needs of children in crisis, as war and natural disasters caused incredible suffering in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Even in the most dire emergency, Save the Children demonstrated that its community development approach could be combined with relief to encourage self-sufficiency and ensure lasting change in the lives of children and their families.

Corporate Giving Contact: Melissa Copher (202) 942-2576
Individual Donations: (800) 435-7669 / En Espanol (800) 257-7575
Web Address:www.redcross.org

The American Red Cross provides relief to victims of disasters and helps people prevent, prepare for, and respond to emergencies. It is one of the largest humanitarian organizations in the United States. More than 1.3 million people volunteer with the American Red Cross in more than 1,300 chapters nationwide. The ratio of Red Cross volunteers to paid staff (total: 29,850) is approximately 45 to 1. For the past three fiscal years, an average of 92 cents of every dollar spent by the Red Cross went to programs and services to help those in need.

SERVICES

Disaster Services in the U.S.
The Red Cross provides disaster services relating to planning, preparedness, education and relief. Recent statistics show the Red Cross provided immediate response to 68,121 domestic disasters, sheltering 172,111 people and providing financial assistance to 125,120 families. Additionally, Red Cross chapters presented disaster preparedness information to millions of Americans throughout the year.

Disaster Services Internationally
The American Red Cross International Services worked with the national societies of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement in some 170 nations to provide relief and humanitarian aid to those in need. Such services include disaster relief and preparedness, tracing, support for international humanitarian law, and national society development and capacity building.

Armed Forces Assistance
The Red Cross provides emergency communications and aid to members of the Armed Forces and their families. The organization processes 4,000 emergency communications every day--one every 22 seconds. In 1996, the Red Cross oversaw 700,000 cases of assistance to members of the Armed Forces, veterans, civilians, and their families.

Health and Safety Services
The Red Cross provides educational and awareness programs in such areas as CPR, first aid, aquatics and water safety, mission-related caregiving, and HIV/AIDS. Recent annual records show enrollments of nearly 12 million people in these services. Some 2.9 million people received direct health services from the Red Cross, including treatment for minor injuries at first aid stations and blood pressure and cholesterol screenings.

Blood, Blood Products, and Tissue Services
The Red Cross collects nearly six million units of blood each year and provides about one half of the nation's blood supply, one quarter of tissue for transplantation, and 15 percent of plasma derivatives. The organization has 38 Blood Services regions nationwide, and 18 Tissue Services Centers.