Project C.U.R.E. / Benevolent Healthcare Foundation

Project C.U.R.E. aims to strengthen the healthcare infrastructure of medical facilities around the globe. In partnership with 350 US hospitals and manufacturers, Project C.U.R.E. helps to green their supply chain by ensuring that lifesaving medical equipment reaches end users around the globe. Because Project C.U.R.E. works through partners that are already on the ground, overhead costs are less than 2%. This fiscal efficiency enables Project C.U.R.E. to maximize the amount of medical supplies and equipment that is distributed globally.

Further, Project C.U.R.E. seeks to enhance the healthcare field with the provision of training programs for midwives, community health workers, traditional birthing attendants and biomedical technicians. Through these programs, Project C.U.R.E. supports the Ministry of Health's goals to create a robust healthcare workforce in each of the countries where trainings are held.

Project C.U.R.E was the medical supply provider for Saving Mothers, Giving Life, a five-year initiative to reduce alarmingly high maternal and newborn mortality rates in Uganda and Zambia. The effort is co-led by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Every Mother Counts, the Government of Norway, Merck for Mothers and USAID. Project C.U.R.E. is receiving $1.8 million over four years to conduct Needs Assessments and deliver 40 containers to facilities in need in these two countries. Project C.U.R.E. is seeking private and corporate partners to double the impact of the grant with matching containers. Since the grant began, the partner communities have seen a 50% reduction in maternal deaths, a highly significant outcome and even higher than anticipated. In 2015, CEO and President, Doug Jackson, traveled to Uganda to participate in a conference for the SMGL NGO's and received news from nurses from Zambia that Project C.U.R.E.'s shipments had transformed their hospitals and saved lives. In fact, the SMGL program has been so significantly impacting maternal health that it will be expanding its scope into Nigeria as well in the upcoming year.

Further support is offered through both the Kits for Kids program and the CURE Kits program. Kits for Kids is a small backpack packed in the US and filled with basic medical supplies such as bandages, Neosporin, and tweezers that is given to a child during a community health workshop, parents are taught how to use the supplies and children keep the backpack for school. The CURE Kits program is a airplane ready bag packed with medical supplies for first responders, for example when the earthquake hit Nepal in 2015, Project C.U.R.E. immediately distributed the CURE Kits to first responders who were able to use them on flight for life helicopters as well as on the ground to save lives.

Health systems in developing countries are overburdened and fragmented. Health systems must be strengthened to meet the current and upcoming burden of disease and infection that weaken the social and economic fabric within communities. While there are many aspects to health system strengthening, an essential component is the provision of high-quality medical supplies and technology that equip healthcare providers with the tools necessary to provide a broad range of healthcare interventions and increase access for the most vulnerable.

Project C.U.R.E. works diligently to support both the medical supply and equipment and human resource needs of facilities who have requested assistance from Project C.U.R.E. This model is a sustainable 'pull' model because medical professionals around the globe initiate the request and Project C.U.R.E. then supports those exact needs following a customized needs assessment of every facility.

The needs assessment is the hallmark of Project C.U.R.E.'s model and sets us apart from other organizations who offer medical supplies and equipment. Because the needs assessment is an in depth interview of medical staff, a customized packing list is tailored for that facility's exact needs. If the facility is in need of a surgical suite or a maternity ward, Project C.U.R.E. responds to support those needs.

Our strategy for achieving our goals is to continue building upon the successful CURE Cargo program, the Kits for Kids and CURE Kits programs and enhancing our training programs through a variety of offerings for CURE College.

Project C.U.R.E. is the world's largest distributor of donated medical supplies. Due to the success of the CURE Cargo program, Project C.U.R.E. has built extensive networks of partnerships all around the globe.

Since 1987 Project C.U.R.E. has equipped thousands of resource-poor medical facilities in over 130 developing countries with desperately needed medical supplies and modern equipment. Typically, it costs Project C.U.R.E. approximately $25,000 to provide an average of $350,000 worth of customized, donated medical supplies and equipment on average. The cost of each project varies with destination and other factors. Project C.U.R.E.'s approach adheres to World Health Organization's (WHO) medical equipment and supply donation guidelines.

Needs Assessment Department:
1. Conducts initial vetting
2. If yes, Needs Assessment is scheduled

Needs Assessment, In-Country:
1. Determine medical facility needs
2. Advise on customs clearance

Operations Department:
1. Supply chain management
2. Procurement and quality control

Distribution Center:
Medical supplies and equipment pulled and prepared for delivery, per direction of the Operations Department

Post-Project Follow Up:
1. Monitoring and Evaluation survey
2. Post Assessment, as requested by sponsor
extensive government relations within the recipient nation; and, (4) a post assessment to ensure the medical supplies and equipment are being used properly.

This extensive process has enabled Project C.U.R.E. to partner with some of the world's most influential partners in global health including DHAPP, USAID, the Government of Norway, Great Britain, numerous Ministers of Health and First Ladies, Fortune 500 corporations, such as Merck, and international development NGOs, such as World Vision, John Snow Inc., Abt Associates, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and other development organizations.

Project C.U.R.E. serves on the Board of Directors of InterAction, the leading international development trade association, and serves on the Board of Directors of Saving Mothers, Giving Life, a Hillary Rodham Clinton initiated partnership to reduce maternal mortality rates by 50% in Uganda, Zambia, and soon to be in Nigeria.

Finally, Project C.U.R.E. operates on 2% administrative overhead and in 2011, Forbes magazine ranked Project C.U.R.E. as one of the 20 most cost effective nonprofit organizations in the United States. Each year, Project C.U.R.E. hires independent auditors to conduct both performance and financial GAAP certified audits. Project C.U.R.E.'s IRS 990 form and its annual report are available online.

Over the 2020/21 fiscal year:

• Sent 183 containers shipped to 48 countries on 5 continents.
• The most containers EVER shipped in the history of Project C.U.R.E., valued at over $60 million in donated medical equipment and supplies.
• Delivered an average of $380,000 worth of donated goods per 40-foot cargo container

Inaugural shipments of domestic aid to fight COVID-19 — each of our U.S. distribution centers specifically met needs of local clinics, providers, even major hospitals within our C.U.R.E. Communities
• Over $4 Million of Domestic PPE Aid
• 18,000 cartons of masks, gloves, gowns, and face shields
• 575 U.S. facilities served
• 540 shipments
• 15 Semi-truck trailers

Volunteer Metrics:
• 3,814 people volunteered with us for the very first time.
• 256 volunteers logged over 100 hours for the FY.
• 30 individuals volunteered over 100 times.
• 60% of all volunteers came back to volunteer with us again.

• Opened a seventh U.S. distribution center in Kansas City.

Project C.U.R.E. has worked diligently over the past year to meet some of the world's most challenging global health crises.