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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
CARE and partners aim to measurably improve the lives of 200 million people in poverty by 2030. We understand that the root causes of poverty are complex in nature and interlinked. Sustainable change requires more than a single-issue solution; to address the root causes of poverty, we must tackle issues from multiple angles and remove the systemic barriers that keep people poor. CARE integrates approaches to fight poverty across six impact areas (Crisis, Food & Water, Health, Education & Work, Climate, and Equality), working with local partners and bridge-building with governments, the private sector, and global institutions for impact. Keeping in mind the current landscape and challenges ahead, the CARE USA network will focus on three impact drivers for the next four years: gender equal, locally led, and globally scaled. These impact drivers are at the heart of what will accelerate our work and transformation, setting us on a path to achieve our ambitious impact goals.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Crisis Response
Whether it is a sudden emergency or an ongoing crisis, CARE works to aid people in need around the world.
In 2022, 274 million people will need humanitarian assistance and protection. This number is a significant increase from 235 million people a year ago, which was already the highest figure in decades.
On average, humanitarian crises are more complex and protracted than at any time in the last 15 years, and last nearly three years longer than they used to. Conflict, migration, and climate change are the key trends driving these crises—with eight of the worst food crises in the world linked to conflict and climate change.
In emergency situations, CARE focuses on access to health, particularly for women and girls, women’s leadership, hunger, psychosocial support, and cash assistance. In 2021, CARE reached 24 million people in humanitarian crisis to help meet their basic needs.
Learn more: https://www.care.org/our-work/disaster-response
Food and Water
Hunger and malnutrition remain major threats to global public health. 820 million people will go to bed hungry tonight, and 2 billion more don’t know where their next meal is coming from.
These numbers are unacceptable, but they’re also getting worse. Over the last three years, conflict and climate change have caused food insecurity to increase every year. Farmers struggle to grow the food they need for themselves, and to sell at markets. And the number of people in the world affected by hunger increased in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Water and markets are a critical part of this work. CARE links water to other activities so that we can make the biggest impact possible, and promotes changes that generate sustained impact and equality in multiple ways.
In 2021, CARE helped 34 million people gain access to food, water, and nutrition.
Learn more: https://www.care.org/our-work/food-and-nutrition
Health
In poor countries, four out of 1,000 women will die in childbirth. In Sub-Saharan Africa, one in 13 children will die before their 15th birthday—16 times more than children in countries like the U.S. The problems are about more than wealth, access, and infrastructure. Gender inequality, child marriage, and gender-based violence all contribute. So do emergencies, with women and children making up 76% of people displaced in times of crisis.
CARE works to remove barriers that prevent the most vulnerable people from accessing quality, equitable health care, while increasing health systems’ ability to serve those hardest to reach. CARE also works to provide high-quality health information and services to youth, building the knowledge and skills they need to transition into healthy, productive adulthood.
In 2021, CARE helped 48 million people gain access to health services, including the right to sexual and reproductive health.
Learn more: https://www.care.org/our-work/health
Education and Work
Education and the right to work are the most powerful tools in overcoming extreme poverty. CARE works to increase access to quality education for marginalized children, particularly adolescent girls. Our tailored curricula build relevant skills and opportunities for positive transitions to further education and employment.
CARE’s microfinance program, the Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs), have provided the template for successful community savings and enterprise. They also became a lifeline for thousands of communities facing COVID-19, through education and modified business models that kept community members safe.
Dignified work is a critical component of CARE’s approach to education and work: from domestic workers to those employed in the garment industry, CARE ensures women have dignified work opportunities.
In 2021, CARE enabled 14 million people to support women’s economic justice.
Learn more: https://www.care.org/our-work/education-and-work
Climate
CARE believes that everyone has the right to live on a healthy planet. It is estimated that climate change may push an additional 132 million people into poverty by 2030. Strengthening the resilience of the poorest and most marginalized people, especially women and girls, while building their capacities to adapt, becomes more pressing every day. At the same time, countries most responsible for climate change must commit to a stronger, zero-carbon future.
This transition will define our path to climate justice through increased capacities and assets for people of all genders, policies and actions by powerholders in the global north and the global south, and strengthened civil society, including social movements.
In 2021, CARE helped 3 million people to support climate justice and address the effects of climate change.
Learn more: https://www.care.org/our-work/climate
Equality
Gender remains one of the most fundamental sources of inequality in the world today. Across nearly every country, women earn only a fraction of what men do, and trans/non-binary people are disproportionately impacted by poverty and denial of fundamental rights.
CARE’s work is inextricably connected with race, class, ability, sexual orientation and gender identity, and other identities. CARE and its partners must learn from and support women and girls to challenge injustice and work toward equality. CARE does this through partnerships with social justice movements and supporting solidarity groups among women and girls. CARE tackles harmful gender and social norms, working to prevent and respond to gender-based violence (GBV), engaging men and boys, and taking steps to hold itself accountable to its commitments.
In 2021, CARE helped 3 million people advance gender equality.
Learn more: ttps://www.care.org/our-work/gender-equality
Where we work
Accreditations
BBB Wise Giving Alliance 2020
Charity Navigator 4-Star Charity 2021
CharityWatch Top-Rated Charity 2020
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of people in humanitarian crisis supported through CARE
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of people supported through access to health information and services, including sexual and reproductive health
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of people supported through access to food, water, and nutrition
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Prior to FY21, food security and resilience to climate change were tracked as a single metric. Those combined metrics can be viewed in CARE's annual reports.
Number of women supported through economic justice programs
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Number of people supported through climate justice programs and addressing the effects of climate change
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Prior to FY21, resilience to climate change and food security were tracked as a single metric. Those combined metrics can be viewed in CARE's annual reports.
Number of people supported through programs that advance gender equality
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Prior to FY21, gender equality metrics focused on the prevention of gender-based violence. Those metrics can be viewed in CARE's annual reports.
Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
Download strategic planHow we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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CARE
Board of directorsas of 03/10/2022
Glenn Hutchins
North Island, Silverlake
Runa Alam
Development Partners International
Dolika Banda
International Finance Corporation, World Bank Group and CDC Group Plc, UK
Martha Brooks
Novelis, Inc.
Charlie Dent
Former Congressman and Policy Advisor
Michele Flournoy
WestExec Advisors
Jay Hallik
Morgan Stanley
Everett Harper
Truss, The Infrastructuralists
Susan Hassan
Sea Dune Partners
Seema Jayachandran
Northwestern University
Radhika Jones
Vanity Fair
Stephen P. Joyce
Dine Brands Global
Mohamed Kande
PwC
Tessa Lyons-Laing
H. Conrad Meyer III
Private Investor
Valerie Montgomery Rice
Morehouse School of Medicine
Jane Mosbacher Morris
To The Market
William Mosakowski
Public Consulting Group Inc.
Michelle Nunn
CARE USA
Christopher D. O'Leary
General Mills, Inc.
Una Osili
IUPI
Kathryn Petralia
Kabbage Inc.
Horacio Rozanski
Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc.
English Sall
Sall Family Foundation
Richard Stengel
Snapchat
Virginia Sall
Sall Family Foundation
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 -
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
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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 ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We analyze disaggregated data and root causes of race disparities that impact the organization's programs, portfolios, and the populations served.
- We have long-term strategic plans and measurable goals for creating a culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.
- 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.
- We measure and then disaggregate job satisfaction and retention data by race, function, level, and/or team.