CARE Impact Fund

The communities where CARE works increasingly face urgent and unexpected needs due to evolving crises – whether an
extreme weather event, a rapid economic downturn, or an outbreak of infectious disease. Donations to a specific project
or program often cannot be applied to unforeseen needs. Flexible funding allows CARE to pivot our humanitarian response and development programming quickly. With flexible funding, CARE can invest in testing and refining innovative, cost-effective new approaches, continuously improving our work to increase impact – a process that is not always funded by traditional grants but that can pay off many times over the long term.

CARE’s programs are designed not only to provide significant immediate benefits to individuals – like emergency cash for food,
or protection from COVID-19 – but also to contribute to lasting change – such as improved student outcomes, or adoption of climate-smart farming practices. We track our progress on both levels: reach – the total number of people touched by CARE programs over the course of the year, and impact – a more targeted measure of the number of people who experience lasting change in their lives. Since 2021, CARE has documented impact in the lives of 56.6 million people in 121 countries: 20.1 million through humanitarian interventions, and 36.5 million through other programs. Some examples:

• Education: 380,000 students have achieved better grades/graduation rates.
• Food and Farmers: 250,000 people are more food secure as a result of climate-smart agriculture, crop diversification, VSLAs, etc.
• Humanitarian: 4.3 million people are supplied with emergency drinking water meeting humanitarian standards.
• Right to Health: 1 million women have access to women-centric health resources.

Thank you for making a difference, one gift at a time. 

Links:

• Check out our impact here!