Crutches 4 Africa Inc.
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Getting a waiver of taxation, or other fees at the port in Africa.
Getting the items to bonafide recipients in areas away from the city.
Marketing and fundraising, social awareness of the need.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Collection of devices for Crutches 4 Africa
load surplus mobility devices such as canes, walkers, wheelchairs and crutches into a shipping container and ship them to developing nations for distribution to underserved marginalized mobility challenged people for free.
Distribution oversight
Personnel to clear customs and move devices to target community. Then find locals to ensure the devices remain intact and with the designated recipients.
US Transportation
Getting items from donors to ports for shipping. Which means having crutch drives and collections locally, picking them up and trucked to a central location for preparing to ship. Many types of transportation are used. Trucks, cars, trains, and boats.
storage of mobility devices
find a storage facility where we can sort, wrap, and stage donated items for shipment.
shipping abroad
finding reliable shipping agents and reasonable transportation costs to move items to respective clients worldwide.
Where we work
Awards
Rotarian of the Year 2009
Mountain Foothills Rotary Club
Service Above Self Award 2011
Mountain Foothills Rotary Club
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
number of recipient individuals directly aided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults, Children and youth, People with disabilities, Economically disadvantaged people, Victims of conflict and war
Related Program
Collection of devices for Crutches 4 Africa
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
this represents devices delivered directly to users abroad.
Number of groups/individuals benefiting from tools/resources/education materials provided
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Distribution oversight
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
community individuals impacted by restoring mobility to their disabled neighbors
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?
keeping used or surplus mobility devices out of Americas landfill is a great way to start.
Then gathering them together and shipping them to people who are in dire need is a fantastic thing to do.
We do both.
Our plan is to help disabled people in areas where help is hard to find.People need hope, better job opportunities, increased respect, personal self worth, and access to voting booths, education, jobs and toilets.
We plan to let people all over America know that they can donate their used devices so they can continue to be used for what they were intended, healing.
We need to get through customs without paying taxes or having pre inspection prior to loading.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
increasing public awareness about what we are doing.
use internet to promote and raise money for our progress
have more fundraising campaigns to keep momentum
update website often, and email donors and followers with helpful information
procure storage facilities in target rich environments.
encourage corporate involvement to move devices from place to place
encourage others to fund containers for future shipments
Hire a marketing and fundraising professional.
find a willing manager to come alongside to oversee progress if CEO is unable to proceed due to death or impairment
allow donors to use cryptocurrency to help fund our projects.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We have a goal oriented Board who helps recruit help for each area of need.
This is a grass roots organization that is working hard to enlist the help of many volunteers in each area delineated above.
We proceed one day at a time, and look to the future with a positive view to improvement and growth.
steps are being taken to join a cryptocurrency coinblock to enable donations to move smoothly to our bank account.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We have enabled 171,000 people to have more health, respect, joy, access, and hope.
we have enlisted hundreds of volunteers all over the country to come alongside to load containers, collect devices, and transport them to a storage or loading site.
we have 9 states involved on an annual basis to collect, wrap, and ship devices
We have met thousands upon thousands of Rotarians around the world who have pledged their support and many have collections starting in their districts. As of the end of 2021 we have had government and non government support to help fund getting their own containers to the location where they are to be distributed from the port.
We have recruited 4 different teams to go to Africa with us to distribute, and learn first hand what the need is and how it feels to help.
We have no distributions arranged for 2021. New team members are volunteering to go along. We intend to do more online fundraising. And get more donors involved.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Crutches 4 Africa Inc.
Board of directorsas of 06/03/2024
Mr David Talbot
President CEO
Term: 2006 - 2022
David Talbot
Nan Jarvis
Evergreen Director
Dale Smith
Clifford Arthur Bodenweiser
North East US Representative
Richard Mancuso
No Affiliation
Maxwell Marx
Director/Kenya
Candice Talbot
C4A vice president
Warren Rose
Nicholas Ricca
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