The COVID-19 pandemic has affected us all, but the impacts haven’t been the same for everyone. The past several years have transformed how we live, work, and interact. For many, it has meant mourning the loss of loved ones and livelihoods. As much as we might wish it to be, the pandemic is far from over. Around the world, local organizations continue to bring much-needed aid to their communities in response to the pandemic and its ongoing effects.
Since January 2020, the GlobalGiving Coronavirus Relief Fund has supported 572 grants to high-impact and community-led nonprofit organizations at the forefront of this long-term crisis.
We asked our partners to share how the pandemic continues to impact their communities and how they’re confronting the challenges. Here is a snapshot of some of the critical work you’ve supported through your generosity:
Partnership With Native Americans | United States
Native Americans have been disproportionately impacted by COVID-19. The pandemic amplified decades of racial prejudice, institutional and systemic oppression, and the legacy of historical mistreatment of the tribes.
“Tribes across the US continued to face food insecurity and water shortages, while the digital divide continued to impact education for a third of Native students who lack access to the internet or a computer, some of them doing their homework in parking lots to secure an internet signal.” – Helen Oliff, Partnership With Native Americans
Partnership With Native Americans (PWNA) has served as an essential COVID-19 relief service to more than 55,000 Native Americans living in geographically isolated and underserved reservation communities. PWNA worked to improve access to critical supplies, culturally relevant food, education, and career readiness services through their COVID-19 relief programs.
Mbarara Rise Foundation | Uganda
Since the start of the pandemic, Uganda has been gripped by waves of variants, overwhelming hospitals and triggering shortages of medical equipment, resources, and especially COVID-19 vaccines. Organizations like the Mbarara Rise Foundation have responded by providing economic empowerment, health care, and emergency services to women and LGBTQIA+ community members. However, sexual minorities face widespread persecution in Uganda. Anti-gay and transphobic views are common, creating barriers to health care and employment opportunities. The economic impact of the pandemic, paired with the harassment and restrictions against Ugandan LGBTQIA+ rights groups, has made it challenging for organizations like the Mbarara Rise Foundation to access funding and resources.
“Our organization operations have reduced. We have been forced to suspend some programs and have [only] programs considered most essential [that] could be conducted with minimal staff and resources due to limited funding...” – Janet Mtesi, Mbarara Rise Foundation
FundLife International | Philippines
In the Philippines, school closures as a result of the pandemic were among the longest in the world. The shift to remote learning has posed unique challenges since less than one-fifth of the population has access to the internet and computers or other devices.
“The education lockdown disproportionately impacted marginalized youth who had to learn from home in very difficult circumstances and without access to laptops or internet support.” – Angel Villamor, FundLife International
For the past two years, FundLife International has provided hundreds of students with “safe-at-home” learning packs to improve the quality of distance learning. The Philippines recently resumed in-person learning, but FundLife International will continue providing resources to students to ensure they can safely and easily transition back to school.
Migrant Clinicians Network | United States
The pandemic has shed new light on existing barriers the migrant, asylum seeker, and immigrant communities face. Organizations like the Migrant Clinicians Network are working to provide a more inclusive social and health service to those communities.
“The difficulties with accessing care is why we created the Health Network, a bridge case management system designed to protect the continuity of care for migrants and other mobile populations. The Health Network allowed us to maintain direct access to some of the most vulnerable individuals throughout the pandemic.” – Ashley-Michelle Papon, Migrant Clinicians Network
The Migrant Clinicians Network team has also expanded its services to address burnout among health care workers on the front lines of the pandemic with support from its network of licensed mental health professionals.
Your support of the GlobalGiving Coronavirus Relief Fund powers community-led responses, and it means people like Helen and Ashley-Michelle get the critical resources they need to help their communities respond to the continued challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thank you for your immense generosity.
With gratitude,
Victoria + the GlobalGiving Team
As we prepare to bid farewell to 2021, I’m writing you this update with mixed feelings. It’s not for lack of wonderful news. Indeed, since my last update, the GlobalGiving Coronavirus Relief Fund has raised more than $14 million for global response efforts!
Thanks to your generosity, our latest grant round powered 74 grants totaling $920,000 to communities spread across more than 30 countries.
Yet, as families consider their holiday plans, COVID-19 cases are rising across the US and the world. Scientists and health professionals continue to learn about the latest Omicron variant. And in addition to our pandemic response, the GlobalGiving team is supporting local nonprofit organizations responding to the devastating impacts of tornadoes in the Midwestern US, a super typhoon in the Philippines, and recent flooding in Malaysia.
You and your loved ones have your own story of how 2021 and the pandemic have affected you. During this almost two-year journey, GlobalGiving’s incredible nonprofit partners have brought us hope and sustained their communities:
These are just three examples of the tremendous life-saving services our nonprofit grantees are providing in villages, towns, and cities worldwide. You can find a complete list of grantees from the most recent round of Coronavirus Relief Fund grants at the end of this update.
I hope 2022 ushers in the conclusion to the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Come what may, I’m confident that we will take forward the learnings from this year and build on the kindness and generosity you’ve helped cultivate.
In gratitude and solidarity,
Sandrina + the GlobalGiving Team
List of Grantees:
3 Generations
Action Bequia
Agewatch Africa Foundation Limited
Alianza Arkana
Amazon Frontlines
Asosyasyon Peyizan Fondwa (APF)
Associacao Esmabama
Association for Humanitarian Development (AHD)
Association For Women's Awareness and Rural Development
Beauty Out Of Dust
Beyond Aid and Relief
Bothoor ALkhaer organization for Relief and Development
Bridge to Turkiye Fund
Burundi Friends International
Cagdas Yasami Destekleme Dernegi (Association in Support of Contemporary Living)
Chiedza Child Care Centre
Community2Community
Concern Organization for Women & Children
CUMIS UCV FOUNDATION, INC
Dallas Inter-tribal Center Dba Urban Inter-tribal Center Of Texas
Darussafaka Society
Days for Girls International
Developmental Action without Borders/Naba'a
Disaster and Environmental Management Trust
Equal Justice Initiative
First Nations Development Institute
Free Yezidi Foundation
Friends Women's Association
Fundacion Cristiana Comunitaria para Personas con Discapacidad Ruach
Fundacion Madre Maria Luisa Casar
Fundacion Paraguaya
Fundo Socioambiental CASA
Global Infancia
Hifadhi Africa Organization (HAO)
Hogar Bambi Venezuela
Insan Hak ve Hurriyetleri Insani Yardm Vakfi
Iraqi Children Foundation, Inc.
IRAQI CHILDREN'S HOPE
Island Hospice and Healthcare
JAMES WERE FOUNDATION
Jiyan Foundation for Human Rights
Kadin Emegini Degerlendirme Vakfi
Karama Organisation for Women and Children's Development
Las Pinas Persons with Disability Federation Inc.
Legacy Institute for Financial Education
Libyan Internet Society (LISOC)
Malaysia Medical Relief Society
Mavi Kalem Association
Mozambique School Lunch Initiative
Network of Organizations Working for People with Disabilities, Pakistan
Nile Care Advocacy for Peace and Development
Nochlezhka
Non-Profit Incubator (NPI)
Oasis Zimbabwe
Rebuilding Alliance
Russian Childrens Welfare Society Inc
Safal MRM FOUNDATION
SAFE WATER & AIDS PROJECT
Sanid Organization for Relief and Development
Sonje Ayiti Organization
St. Nicholas' Home, Penang
STAND The Haiti Project
Talia Women's Network
Tekeshe Foundation
TFL-US INC
The Nawaya Network
The Wayuu Taya Foundation Inc
Tomorrow's Youth Organization
Union of Relief and Development Associations
Women's Aid Organisation (WAO)
Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation
This summer is not turning out as we’d hoped. In the US and abroad, communities are grappling with the impacts of the Delta variant. And COVID-19 vaccines remain out of reach for millions of people, most of whom live in low-income countries. I’m writing to you from Portugal, where I'm checking in on my family many months after the pandemic upended our lives.
Remarkably, GlobalGiving partners remain energized, compassionate, and agile in responding to this prolonged global health crisis. These local leaders are delivering life-saving oxygen, food, psychosocial services, and comfort to communities around the world.
Through your generosity, we awarded $1.5 million in emergency grants to 101 nonprofits providing COVID-19 relief services in 37 countries across five continents.
As we navigate the uncertain times ahead, I’m confident that the generous support of donors like you and the commitment of our nonprofit partners will continue to save lives, strengthen the resilience of communities worldwide, and cultivate hope.
In gratitude and solidarity,
Sandrina + the GlobalGiving Team
LIST OF GRANTEES:
Accountability Lab Nepal
Act4Africa
Afghan Institute of Learning
AgroMwinda
Aid Afghanistan for Education
Aksi Cepat Tanggap (ACT Foundation)
Aleimar
Alive Medical Services
Alternate ROOTS:
American Friends of the Spafford Children's Center
Arkansas community foundation
Asociación Civil Ingeniería sin Fronteras Argentina
Asociatia Club Rotary Craiova Probitas
Bamyan Foundation
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society
Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation (BASR)
Boys and Girls Club of Canada:
Build Health International
Cambodian Children's Fund
Care 2 Communities
Center for Amazon Community Ecology
Child Rescue Nepal
Children's Helpers Worldwide
CHOSA Inc
Community Resilience Trust
Community Skills Development
Cooperation for Peace and Development (CPD)
Corporación Superarse
DCWC Community Hospital
Disable Development & Educational Foundation
Easter Caribbean Alliance for Diversity and Equality (ECADE)
Economic Stimulus Projects for Work and Action- ESPWA
Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness
European Lawyers in Lesvos
Facilitating Action for Community Empowerment (FACE)
Fresh Start Recovery Center
Friends of Ninos de Guatemala
Fundacion Accion País para la Formación de Liderazgo Social
Fundación Paraguaya
Health Equity International
Health in Harmony
HERA (Her Economic Rights and Autonomy)
Hoedspruit Training Trust
Hogar Bambi Venezuela
Hope Community
Hope for Our Sisters
International Community Foundation
International Community Foundation
Irida Women's Center
IsraAID
JAAGO Foundation UK
Kadin Emegini Degerlendirme Vakfi
Kagumu Development Organization
Kamboo Project
Karam Foundation
Karama Organisation for Women and Children's Development
KOSHISH
Kupona Foundation
Lighthouse Relief
Malama Kauai
Mammadu Trust
Maya Health Alliance: Wuqu’ Kawoq
Mbarara
Middle East Children's Alliance
Migrant Clinicians Network
Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance
Mission Dove Cambodia
Mobile Mini Circus for Children
Nepal Youth Foundation
Nexos Comunitarios
Non-governmental organization Women's Federation for World Peace
Odessa Charity Foundation Way Home
Paso Pacífico
Peace Bridges Organization
Perkumpulan Pelita Indonesia
Planet Water Foundation
Power of Love Foundation
Prithipura Communities
Protibandhi Shishu Shiekkha O Paricharja Samity
Rays of Hope (registered as Imisebe Yethemba)
Regarding her Food
Sahar Education
Save Youth Future Society
Southern Vision Alliance
Stichting Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice
Streetaware Association
Support Utila Inc
Tanzania Development Trust
The Himalayan Grassroots Women’s Natural Resource Management Association of Nepal (HIMAWANTI NEPAL)
The Mustard Seed Mission
The Small World
The Sunshine Charity
UCZ Mwandi Mission Hospital American Partners
Umduduzi - Hospice Care for Children
Union of Health Work Committees
Wadadee Cares e.V
Waves of Hope
Wayuu Taya Foundation
Whisper
Yayasan Bumi Sehat, Ds. PKR Nyuh Kuning
Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa Foundation
I joined GlobalGiving one year ago. Having recently left a position at a hospital in Haiti because of the pandemic, I returned to California to begin my first entirely virtual role with GlobalGiving’s disaster response team. While still in Haiti, I watched from abroad as my home country entered its first lockdown. Haiti, a country with a medical system crippled by poor infrastructure due to hundreds of years of corruption and extraction, feared what was to come. As time moved on, while many countries witnessed their darkest days, countries like Haiti seemed to have almost miraculously unscathed. We know now that wouldn’t last.
In my new role with GlobalGiving, I was able to follow the work of hundreds of GlobalGiving’s nonprofit partners as they stepped up to serve their communities throughout the pandemic. I saw how organizations such as Southern Vision Alliance provided economic relief through small-dollar grants to BIPOC, LGBTQ+, and low-income individuals and organizations responding to the pandemic in North Carolina, or how partners like Hogar Bambi delivered first-line medical care, including vaccine distribution, to children in Venezuela. As time progressed, and hotspots shifted, we witnessed communities navigate the pandemic in entirely different ways. And thankfully, donors like you made it possible for us to support many of these communities around the world.
Throughout my tenure at GlobalGiving, Haiti never left my mind. As life returns to ‘normal’ in the United States, many countries fight for vaccine equity. Today, not a single vaccine dose has made it to Haiti, and the delta variant has begun to flood hospitals like Saint Boniface Hospital, managed by Health Equity International. Despite this challenge, Health Equity International continues to advocate for vaccine access throughout the country, all while providing high-quality healthcare to Haiti’s southern peninsula.
The fight for vaccine equity has exposed a new crisis, one which was already deeply embedded in the inequities that underpin our world. Only 1% of the world’s 1.3 billion vaccines injected have made it to the African continent. India, home to the world’s largest vaccine manufacturer, has struggled to produce enough vaccines for its own population—leading to the diversion of doses once promised for low-income countries through Covax. While much progress has been made, globally, we have a lot of work to do.
Your donation has supported GlobalGiving partners on the front lines, providing care and advocating for vaccine equity in their communities. Partners such as the Migrant Clinicians Network are working to support health care providers as they educate and vaccinate at-risk communities throughout the United States.
It is thanks to your support that GlobalGiving's nonprofit partners continue to work from Nepal to New Orleans, responding to the pandemic. With your support, we recently awarded 54 grants totaling almost half a million dollars to nonprofits working in 18 countries on issues ranging from vaccine equity to child protection. This brings the number of organizations we’ve been able to support to 446, thanks to you. You can find a complete list of grantees from the most recent round of Coronavirus Relief Fund grants at the bottom of this update.
In gratitude and solidarity,
Mikaela + The GlobalGiving Team
LIST OF GRANTEES:
Fresh Start Recovery Centre
Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada
International Community Foundation
Minnesota Indigenous Business Alliance
Malama Kauai
Health Equity International
Care 2 Communities
Economic Stimulus Projects for Work and Action- ESPWA
Afghan Institute of Learning
Bamyan Foundation
Sahar Education
Aid Afghanistan for Education
Mobile Mini Circus for Children
Cooperation for Peace and Development (CPD
Kamboo Project
Peace Bridges Organization
PLANET WATER FOUNDATION
Cambodian Children's Fund
Las Pinas Persons with Disability Federation Inc.
The Sunshine Charity
Prithipura Communities
Yayasan Bumi Sehat, Ds. PKR Nyuh Kuning
Aksi Cepat Tanggap (ACT Foundation)
Perkumpulan Pelita Indonesia
Health in Harmony
Yayasan Usaha Mulia / Foundation for Noble Work
Yayasan Cinta Anak Bangsa Foundation
Nepal Youth Foundation
DCWC Community Hospital
KOSHISH
Child Rescue Nepal
The Small World
Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness
THE HIMALAYAN GRASSROOTS WOMEN'S NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT ASSOCIATION OF NEPAL (HIMAWANTI NEPAL)
Bangladesh Environment and Development Society
PROTIBANDHI SHISHU SHIEKKHA O PARICHARJA SAMITY
Disable Development & Educational Foundation
Corporacion Superarse
The Wayuu Taya Foundation Inc.
Hogar Bambi Venezuela
Center for Amazon Community Ecology
Nexos Comunitarios
Fundacion Paraguaya
Fundacion Accion Pais para la Formacion de Liderazgo Social
Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation (BASR)
American Friends of the Spafford Children's Center
Save Youth Future Society
Karama Organisation for Women and Children's Development
Union of Health Work Committees
Middle East Children's Alliance
Migrant Clinicians Network
Mission Dove Cambodia
The Mustard Seed Mission
Asociacion Civil Ingenieria sin Fronteras Argentina
GlobalGiving launched the Coronavirus Relief Fund on Jan. 27, 2020. Later that week, I boarded a flight to Geneva to attend a humanitarian conference. The World Health Organization, headquartered nearby, had placed signs around the conference center with basic information about the virus, but no one was wearing masks or socially distancing. These gatherings are a great opportunity to network, share, and generate ideas while connecting with old friends and colleagues we’ve worked with around the world. Needless to say, there was lots of hugging and handshaking. That feels like a lifetime ago.
For the past year, you’ve been an inspiration to me and the entire GlobalGiving team. While you’ve been busy adapting to new realities of the pandemic and caring for loved ones, you also made time to share your resources and help deliver COVID-19 relief to frontline workers and families around the world.
With your support, last week we awarded 89 emergency grants totaling more than $2 million to nonprofit organizations helping communities in more than 25 countries.
You can find the entire list of grantees at the end of this update. Here’s a snapshot of how these hardworking teams are continuing to serve their communities through the pandemic.
Since January 2020, your contributions powered:
Some hopeful news has come to light since I last wrote to you. Globally, reported COVID-19 cases have decreased for the third week in a row. And four types of vaccines have been approved in different parts of the world and are slowly becoming available and being administered (my colleague Sami Adler outlined vaccine distribution efforts in this helpful article).
The many reasons that have moved you to give your time and money to meet needs created by this pandemic are what makes the GlobalGiving community so special. Thank you.
In gratitude and solidarity,
Sandrina + the GlobalGiving Team
List of Grantees:
Alawite Islamic Charity Association
American Friends of the Spafford Children's Center
Asia Society for Social Improvement and Sustainable Transformation, Inc.
Ask The Paediatricians Foundation
Association for Dalit Women's Advancement of Nepal
Baobá - Fundo para Equidade Racial
Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation (BASR)
Casa de la Amistad para Niños con Cáncer
Charity Foundation 'Change One Life'
Community Foundation of West Texas
Dako Foundation For Rural Healthcare And Education
DCWC Nepal - Development of Children and Women Center
El Centro Popular para América Latina de Comunicación
Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness
FASOL- Fondo Acción Solidaria, AC
First Nations Development Institute
Fresh Spirit Wellness for Women Inc.
Fundación Madre María Luisa Casar
Fundo Casa Socioambiental (CASA)
Global Hope Network International
Great Plains Tribal Health Board
Health Opportunity Partnership and Empowerment in Africa
Karama Organisation for Women and Children's Development
Mt. Calvary Center for Leadership Development
National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics
Native American Advancement Foundation
Palliative Care Education and Research Consortium
Partnerships With Native Americans
POWER- People Organized for Westside Renewal
Proyecto Impacto Consultores, AC
Reach Out and Feed Philippines
Samaritans (Central London Branch)
Starfish Greathearts Foundation
Texas Low Income Housing Information Services
The Rotary Club of Chelmer Bridge
Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET)
Union of Health Work Committees
Women's Health Specialists of California
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