MISSION: RESTORE
Operating Together
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Mission: Restore is building a Network of Surgeons to connect, support and train local surgeons. Due to the extremely low capacity of many hospitals in developing countries, the burden of providing surgical care often falls upon surgeons who have limited training and no support. This network enables surgeons to save lives now and grow as leaders, creating change for generations to come. 5 billion people worldwide lack access to essential surgical care and over and surgical conditions account for 30% of the overall global burden of disease.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Hands on surgical training
Mission: Restore sends surgeon educators to work side by side with our local partners to provide hands on training by operating together.
Surgical Education Grants
Provide promising young surgeons with grants to continue their surgical training either in the region or through fellowships to the USA.
Telemedicine
Providing long distance consultations, mentoring and monitoring through technology.
Where we work
Affiliations & memberships
Ellis Island Honors Society 2009
External reviews
Videos
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of medical professionals participating in training opportunities.
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The goals of Mission: Restore is to create an environment worldwide where surgeons have the knowledge, skills, and support necessary to treat debilitating injuries in their own communities.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our sustainable model bridges education gaps through surgical trainings, builds networks with telemedicine and supports local change-makers through educational grants. Our expectation is for our surgeons to act as mentors, sharing their newly acquired skills and knowledge with other local surgeons. For example, due to this train-the-trainer model, over the course of one year, we estimate that 250 patients will benefit directly from just one surgeon's new skill set.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
Mission: Restore's capacity building model differs from the traditional surgical mission approach where foreign doctors solely perform surgeries without engaging with local hospital staff. Additionally, traditional surgical missions rarely make contact with local physicians between trips. Many of our surgeon educators became frustrated with this model as it only provided immediate relief without addressing larger issues of hospital capacity.
The backbone of Mission: Restore's approach is providing hands on training through U.S. surgeon educators operating alongside local surgeons. Outside of trainings, local surgeons continue to be supported by mentors to further ensure their ability to perform procedures on their own, serving their patients' needs.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
Since the organization was established, Mission: Restore has expanded its impact, with 300 surgeons trained from 27 different countries, resulting in 1,000 complex surgeries performed, 1,500 telemedicine consultations and 2,500 hours of hands-on training completed. 2016 marked the first launch of our Africa Regional Training Summit to engage multiple surgeons in hands-on training, which was and has been a great success in subsequent years.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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MISSION: RESTORE
Board of directorsas of 01/03/2024
Dr. Kaveh Alizadeh
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? No -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
Who works and leads organizations that serve our diverse communities? Candid partnered with CHANGE Philanthropy on this demographic section.
Leadership
The organization's leader identifies as:
Race & ethnicity
Gender identity
Transgender Identity
Sexual orientation
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Disability
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We have community representation at the board level, either on the board itself or through a community advisory board.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.