Corporate Alliances

Abbott

Since 2005 Abbott has been a trusted partner to CARE, providing critical aid to survivors of the world's most devastating crises, including the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, the 2011 famine in the Horn of Africa and the 2011 floods in Thailand. Abbott and CARE have also partnered to avert disaster with funding for a community-based Avian Flu surveillance and prevention program in Vietnam. With Abbott's support, hundreds of farming families have been trained to recognize the deadly disease and take steps to prevent its spread. Most recently, Abbott is supporting CARE's efforts to expand social enterprise strategies of poverty alleviation with a planning grant to create new program designs around health in India.

In addition, for six years running, Abbott has sponsored CARE's National Conference & Celebration, which provides critical flexible funding to support CARE's work where it is needed the most. Learn more about Abbott's global citizenship efforts at www.abbott.com.

ACE Charitable Foundation

The ACE Charitable Foundation, part of the ACE Group, is partnering with CARE to create innovative solutions to chronic malnutrition among Peru's Andean population. The Sustainable Andean Agriculture program will help farmers diversify into high-yield, nutritious varieties such as quinoa, amaranth and native potato that are adapted to the Andean climate and require much less fertilizer than most current crops.

Focusing on the Ayacucho region, one of the poorest in Peru, the program is expected to reach 800 farming families, or about 4,000 people in total. The three-year, $600,000 project marks the third time ACE is teaming up with CARE – following disaster relief grants for the 2005 Indian Ocean tsunami and the devastating earthquake that struck Peru in 2007. Learn more about ACE philanthropy.

AES Corporation

The AES Corporation, a global power company dedicated to sustainable energy solutions, is a lead sponsor for CARE's Climate Change Innovation Fund. CARE recognizes the threat that climate change poses to our planet, especially to those living at the margins of survival. CARE is specifically focused on addressing the human face of climate change; we are responding to the needs of those individuals and communities who are most affected by and least able to cope with the consequences of global warming. Building on more than six decades of experience working with poor communities worldwide, CARE's approach to climate change is unique in that it focuses specifically on helping extremely poor households to adapt to and thrive in changing environments.To learn more about the AES Corporation, please visit www.aes.com.  

Cisco

Cisco has been a generous partner to CARE for many years. Cisco Systems has helped CARE increase our understanding of and capacity to use technology for development and operations, including generous equipment donations.

The Coca-Cola Company

CARE and The Coca-Cola Company have been partners for more than three decades as investors in a better world. The Coca-Cola Foundation has supported CARE's emergency response activities and has sponsored key events such as CARE's 65th Anniversary Celebration in Washington, D.C. Presently, The Coca-Cola Company and CARE are working hand in hand to create significant, effective and sustainable solutions to address global water and sanitation concerns in more than 10 countries in Africa and Latin America.

The Coca-Cola Company and USAID expanded their joint commitment to CARE via the Water and Development Alliance (WADA) to bring safe water to communities in Mozambique in addition to the already existing projects in Morocco and Tanzania. The Coca-Cola Africa Foundation has expanded its commitment to CARE through the Replenish Africa Initiative (RAIN), supporting water and sanitation programming in Egypt, Democratic Republic of Congo and Zimbabwe. Finally, CARE is a member of the Mi Escuela Saludable (My Healthy School) partnership in Central America, which has been funded by The Coca-Cola Company and the Inter-American Development Bank.

Covance Inc.

In Rwanda, Covance Inc., a leader in drug development and marketing, partnered with CARE to pilot community-based daycare centers and home-based Early Childhood Development programs for orphans and vulnerable children in five communities. The project prioritized children from households that were child-or female-headed, those affected by HIV and AIDS in the family and those that were very poor and vulnerable. By providing a safe and secure environment, the project supported the physical, emotional and cognitive development of young children, and reduced incidences of sexual and physical abuse and neglect. With the support of Covance employees worldwide, the communities are also benefiting by having more than fifty homes renovated or completely rebuilt. This successful partnership has helped CARE leverage additional support from the U.S. Government to expand the model to additional communities serving vulnerable children. To learn more about Covance Inc., please visit www.covance.com.

Credit Suisse

CARE is a partner with Credit Suisse in their signature global education initiative that will provide 45,000 disadvantaged primary and secondary school age children – particularly girls – with better access to quality education. The program aims to remove barriers to access, improve the quality of educational opportunities and work towards increasing sustainability and impact. In Peru, Credit Suisse supports CARE's new bilingual intercultural education in the Andes and, in Tanzania, the company supports girls access to quality education among pastoralist communities. For information on Credit Suisse, please visit www.credit-suisse.com.

Delta Air Lines

Delta has been in partnership with CARE since 1988 and has contributed over $1 million in support as well as provided in-kind flight contributions and invited CARE to be a participant in Delta's SkyWish program. Through SkyWish, consumers are able to allocate their frequent flyer miles to CARE. The donated miles help CARE further its mission in two important ways: enabling CARE to reach people in the countries where we work and allowing CARE to channel even more resources directly into our projects that empower women worldwide. Delta has also contributed significant in-kind and expert support for CARE's Haiti relief efforts. With Delta's help, CARE was able to ensure that additional emergency relief experts were on the ground in Haiti within 72 hours of the earthquake. Most recently, Delta supported an educational project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras by contributing to the reconstruction and renovation of school buildings and latrines in order to improve students' learning environment as well as give them access to facilities with proper water and sanitation. For more information about Delta's support of CARE, or to participate in the SkyWish program, please go to http://www.delta.com/skywish

Enterprise Holdings

As part of Enterprise Rent-A-Car's Giving Back philanthropic contest, CARE was selected by Enterprise employees for the second year in a row to benefit from an online competition to receive funds from the company's Foundation. Visitors to Giving Back on the Enterprise Facebook page were able to learn about CARE's work and vote for a portion of the company's Foundation funds to be given to CARE, their charity of choice. Visit http://www.facebook.com/Enterprise to learn more about this exciting way to support CARE's work.  

Gap Inc.

Gap Inc. is a key supporter of CARE's Factory Health Education Project in Cambodia, which improves access to clinical services for garment factory workers and promotes education, awareness and prevention of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. In 2004, Gap Inc. doubled its contribution to the Cambodia program and newly funded CARE's Private Sector Coalition Against HIV/AIDS in Lesotho.

GE Foundation

GE Foundation, the philanthropic organization of the General Electric Company, is a partner with CARE in supporting basic educational programming in Ghana. GE has also taken a leadership role with CARE in supporting lifesaving emergency response initiatives in refugee camps and communities in Darfur and in Chad.

The Global Water Challenge

In partnership with the government of Kenya, CARE is launching a new program that will improve access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene for school children. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Water Challenge, the program, known as SWASH+ (Sustaining and Scaling School Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Plus Community Impact), will identify, develop and test innovative school-based water, sanitation and hygiene projects in Kenya's Nyanza Province. Over five years, SWASH+ will reach at least 300 schools (including 90,000 students in the first three years) and will provide valuable information on the costs and benefits of school water, sanitation and hygiene.

The Global Water Challenge (GWC) is a partnership to save lives and reduce suffering in the developing world by providing safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene education to people who lack these basic services. Launched by a diverse coalition of corporations, foundations, and aid organizations, the GWC is a unique partnership to build healthy communities and provide sustainable solutions to ensure the availability of potable water. The GWC's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to millions by identifying and multiplying solutions that work. The GWC is an initiative of the United Nations Foundation. Learn more at www.globalwaterchallenge.org.

Goldman Sachs & Co.

Goldman Sachs has been a long time supporter of CARE's poverty fighting programs. In Japan, where a 9.0 earthquake and tsunami devastated populated coastal communities and forced hundreds of thousands to seek temporary shelter in distant locations, Goldman Sachs & Co. made a generous grant to assist CARE in providing psycho-social support and counseling for families affected by the disaster. To learn more about Goldman Sachs, please visit www.goldmansachs.com.

Intel

Intel's technology-based solutions provide an innovative way to work towards improved education, teacher training, student performance and social skills. With support from Intel and Global Giving's Technology for Education Fund, CARE has brought Intel classmate PCs to children and teachers in India and Egypt. Intel has provided training support through the Intel Education Service Corps, by sending teams of Intel employee volunteers to train teachers and students. Through this partnership, CARE, Intel and Global Giving are helping students, especially girls. Learn more about Intel's commitments to education at: www.intel.com/education.

InterContinental Hotels Group

InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) is utilizing its network of hotels throughout Latin America to raise funds and awareness for CARE throughout the region. IHG's commitment to the diversity of its customer and employee base complements CARE's value of promoting equality throughout the world.

Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson has partnered with CARE to support a palliative care program for people living with HIV/AIDS in Haiti. Through the partnership, the company provided an assortment of medical supplies to stock health kits for distribution to families caring for HIV/AIDS patients. Johnson & Johnson also provided a grant to train health care professionals and volunteers in the care and treatment of people living with HIV/AIDS. Most recently, Johnson & Johnson and CARE are partnering to provide water, sanitation and hygiene services and environmental opportunities that will directly improve the health of students attending primary schools in Ethiopia's South Gondar zone. They are also supporting a grant in Malawi to increase the effectiveness of HIV/AIDS programming to ultra-poor women by integrating economic strengthening with HIV prevention work. To learn more about Johnson & Johnson, please visit www.jnj.com.

JP Morgan Chase

JP Morgan Chase has been a strong partner with CARE in supporting education, health and economic development projects in South Asia and Latin America. The company also supported a microfinance disaster loan fund project in the tsunami-affected countries of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. The project was designed to strengthen microfinance institutions capable of providing loans and grants to families and communities seeking to rebuild livelihoods through enterprise development. Most recently, the company has generously supported CARE's emergency response activities in the Horn of Africa and during the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. To learn more about JP Morgan Chase, please visit www.jpmorganchase.com.

Kraft Foods

Kraft Foods and CARE have partnered for over seven years to create new opportunities for cocoa farmers in Northeastern Brazil. In 2008, Kraft and CARE launched a successful two-year initiative to test new production techniques with 125 smallholder famers in Bahia State that led to an increase in their cocoa production capacity and thus their household income. CARE and Kraft have a similar partnership in Ghana to help young farmers in the Ashanti Region increase their cocoa yields. These two projects not only support the development of an important commodity for Kraft Foods, but also provide opportunities for rural families to lift themselves – and their communities – out of poverty. In 2011, Kraft Foods also supported communities in Brazil by contributing to CARE's emergency response activities after devastating floods.

The MathWorks

The MathWorks expressed its commitment to education worldwide through a major contribution to CARE's Campaign for Education. Their gift will expand CARE's basic and girls' education programs which are the key to slower population growth, reduced child mortality, increased family incomes, reduced HIV transmission, increased influence for women, reduced trafficking of children, and increased respect for human rights.

Pfizer, Inc.

Pfizer made a major donation of $2 million dollars to CARE in support of its tsunami relief and recovery efforts in the most affected countries of Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka and Thailand. These funds supported immediate emergency needs such as clean water, temporary shelter, food and medicines. Remaining funds were used to support longer-term infrastructure repairs, permanent housing, and livelihood restoration within communities severely affected. In addition, Pfizer also supplied medical equipment and pharmaceuticals to tsunami affected communities in Somalia. More recently, the company provided funding and in-kind support to CARE's efforts in Myanmar and Haiti. In addition to supporting CARE's emergency response activities, Pfizer has also assigned four Global Health Fellows to CARE health programs in Tanzania and India. To learn more about Pfizer, please visit www.pfizer.com.

pureDKNY

CARE and pureDKNY first partnered in 2010 to increase social and economic opportunity for Ugandan vanilla farmers, 60% of whom are women. A drop of vanilla from crops grown in Uganda is the signature ingredient in the first pureDKNY fragrance. By having this signature ingredient sourced from Africa and through the partnership with CARE, pureDKNY supports local communities as well as enables smallholder farmers to participate in Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLA), CARE's savings-led microfinance program. The second fragrance of the pureDKNY line contains a drop of verbena and pureDKNY is supporting Access Africa, CARE's multi-country initiative in Africa around microfinance. This support is providing resources to help even more women escape poverty. Visit www.pureDKNY.com to learn more.

Starbucks Coffee Company

Starbucks Coffee Company has been a generous supporter of CARE's work for over 20 years. The company has supported our programs in health, economic development, education, environment, water, civil society and emergency response. Starbuck's most recent initiative has been in support of CARE's Mothers Matter maternal health programs in coffee growing countries through the Every Mother Counts CD promotion, in partnership with Christy Turlington Burns. Funds donated by Starbucks through the sale of each CD are being used to strengthen maternal health programs in the Andean Region, expand reproductive health and family planning programming in Rwanda, initiate new integrated programming in Ethiopia in response to the famine, and support programming for adolescent girls to prevent early pregnancy and decrease the risk of maternal death in Malawi.

Stemcor

Stemcor, an international distributor of steel and raw materials and provider of marketing, financial and logistical services to the steel industry, has been a partner with CARE for seven years in supporting girls' education in India. With support from Stemcor, CARE India is pioneering educational efforts that provide intensive schooling for disadvantaged girls and girls from marginalized communities. Most recently, Stemcor is supporting a three-year initiative that aims to increase the number of girls completing primary school in marginalized communities in Odisha, India by ensuring equal access to schools and quality education, promoting girls' leadership and extending health education among them, and advocating for and protecting the rights of girls. To learn more about Stemcor, please visit www.stemcor.com.

Symantec

Symantec helps consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Symantec's software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. Symantec began supporting CARE's education work in 2008 and has recently partnered with CARE again to support a resource center in India for improving girls' education. Learn more about Symantec at www.symantec.com.

Teavana

Teavana® is working to improve the lives of those who live in tea producing areas around the world by partnering with CARE through Teavana's EquaTrade program. In collaboration with CARE, Teavana donates 1% of annual net profits from all of its teas to benefit people in Sri Lanka and India by improving educational opportunities, creating improved access to safe water and greater economic opportunity. Learn more and take action at www.teavana.com.

UBS Optimus Foundation

With the support of the UBS Optimus Foundation, CARE is working to dissolve the educational barriers that children, especially girls, from marginalized castes in the Bihar State of eastern India encounter. CARE's Linked for Learning project is helping children access quality education at the right time, developing strategies to increase the relevance of curricula for children, strengthening the effectiveness of government education programs, and linking two critical early education levels – preschool and formal primary school – for the first time in India. To learn more about the UBS Optimus Foundation, please visit www.ubs.com/optimus.

Visa Inc.

Visa Inc. and CARE are partnering in Rwanda to promote financial inclusion through Village Savings and Loan Associations (VSLAs). With Visa Inc.'s support, CARE is training VSLA participants to save and invest in income generating activities and providing opportunities for both CARE and Visa to learn about how VSLAs enable communities at the bottom of the pyramid to overcome financial exclusion, become active participants in financial and other markets, and develop entrepreneurial skills.