CORE Response Overview
A presentation deck educating viewers on the mission, work, and key supporters of CORE Response. A key focus of the deck is the crisis response services CORE provides in the underserved communities they provide them in.
A presentation deck educating viewers on the mission, work, and key supporters of CORE Response. A key focus of the deck is the crisis response services CORE provides in the underserved communities they provide them in.
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THERE ARE RELIEF ORGANIZATIONS, AND THEN THERE’S <strong>CORE</strong>.
What makes us<br />
unique?<br />
21 REGIONS WORLDWIDE<br />
9 MILLION PEOPLE<br />
98% of all <strong>CORE</strong>’s funds<br />
go directly to our programs<br />
providing relief to those who<br />
need it most.<br />
We’re a crisis<br />
response<br />
organization<br />
on a mission to empower<br />
underserved communities<br />
in and beyond crisis.<br />
With the help of our generous<br />
supporters, we’ve brought<br />
immediate aid and longterm<br />
recovery solutions to<br />
marginalized populations<br />
in 21 regions worldwide,<br />
supporting over 9 million<br />
people from Haiti to Navajo<br />
Nation to Mumbai.<br />
“The world as we<br />
have created it is<br />
a process of our<br />
thinking. It cannot<br />
be changed<br />
without changing<br />
our thinking.”<br />
- Albert Einstein<br />
And this is just the beginning.<br />
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A more equitable future<br />
starts with addressing the<br />
intersection of disaster and<br />
social justice. Head on.<br />
Here’s the brutal reality: those most impacted by<br />
disaster consistently are those who also suffer<br />
from systemic inequalities. Traditional relief is<br />
often too rigid, too late, doesn’t reach those most<br />
in need, and can create unintended harm on local<br />
communities. As a result, marginalized populations<br />
stay in a never-ending cycle of poverty and disaster.<br />
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So what’s the solution? What’s<br />
our plan to help them avoid<br />
this dismal fate? The answer is<br />
simple: we listen, we learn, and<br />
then we act.<br />
We are not saviors who swoop in with heavy<br />
boots and a master plan. We’re a nimble<br />
learning organization that empowers<br />
communities with the relief they need for<br />
their community. We don’t dump and run.<br />
We invest in the local community when<br />
it needs it most. Our efforts are fueled<br />
by local hands, and we partner with local<br />
leaders, organizations, governments, and<br />
other stakeholders.<br />
When there’s a crisis, we don’t just bandage<br />
the superficial wounds. We work together<br />
with the local community to support<br />
their immediate holistic needs and a<br />
path to long-term recovery. Disasters are<br />
devastating. There’s no getting around that.<br />
But we believe they’re an opportunity to<br />
address the inequities that create avoidable<br />
devastation every day.<br />
What we’re up to<br />
We began in Haiti, out of an ethical imperative to support<br />
those in need after the devastating earthquake in 2010.<br />
We’re still there today, with a Haitian-based team running<br />
community building programs.<br />
Today, our global programs span from continued COVID-19<br />
relief in Los Angeles and India, to the frontlines of the<br />
Ukraine humanitarian crisis, to disaster preparedness<br />
training in North Carolina and climate resilience programs<br />
in Haiti, to disaster response and recovery efforts in New<br />
Orleans and Brazil.<br />
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Ukraine<br />
<strong>Response</strong><br />
Within days of the Russian invasion of<br />
Ukraine, <strong>CORE</strong> launched an emergency<br />
response to fill crucial gaps in<br />
humanitarian relief that were stranding<br />
those most affected without the urgent<br />
aid they desperately needed.<br />
Since February 2022, <strong>CORE</strong> has been on the<br />
ground providing critical relief with a rapid and<br />
nimble approach that prioritizes the safety<br />
and security of Ukrainian refugees and those<br />
internally displaced within Ukraine.<br />
With our local partners, we have been building capacity to support makeshift<br />
shelters, hiring local staff, distributing essential goods, and providing direct<br />
cash support to help refugee families resettle on their own terms. And we<br />
continue to work with our partners to identify long-term support for those<br />
affected by the devastating humanitarian catastrophe.<br />
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Climate<br />
Change<br />
The program targets the broader<br />
environmental and economic<br />
impact of climate change in Haiti<br />
by focusing on reforestation and<br />
supporting local farmers.<br />
Early on, we discovered<br />
the harsh impact climate<br />
change was having on<br />
marginalized communities.<br />
So, we developed Haiti<br />
Takes Root, an innovative<br />
program with a 30-year<br />
plan to addresses Haiti’s<br />
environmental crisis..<br />
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216 million<br />
people are projected to migrate within<br />
their own countries by 2050 because<br />
of climate change.<br />
60,000 +<br />
deaths are caused by weather-related<br />
disasters, mainly in developing<br />
countries, each year.<br />
SOURCE: World Bank<br />
We are also working towards similar goals through our collaborative<br />
partnership and investment in Acceso in Haiti.<br />
With the spotlight on climate change shining brighter than ever,<br />
we are developing additional programs to proactively address the<br />
devastating impact it’s having – and will continue to have – on the<br />
vulnerable and marginalized.<br />
Meanwhile, we continue to respond to support these populations<br />
in the wake of disasters intensified by climate change, from<br />
Hurricane Ida in New Orleans to flooding in Brazil. We work with<br />
local leaders to support poor, rural communities with direct access<br />
to the essential resources they need in the wake of these disasters<br />
– whether it’s hygiene kits, food, emergency shelter kits, beds, or<br />
pressure cookers.<br />
With every disaster we respond to, we are reminded of the<br />
desperate need for more proactive, urgent action to support<br />
these communities and bolster their preparedness for<br />
whatever comes next.<br />
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When drive-thru sites weren’t reaching those hit<br />
hardest, we started going directly to their communities<br />
with mobile units. When Navajo Nation was hit hard, we<br />
helped flattened the curve with our partners through an<br />
integrated approach of contact tracing, testing, hygiene<br />
kits, and building shelters to proactively shield elders from<br />
exposure in overcrowded multigenerational households.<br />
We operated the largest testing and vaccination site in the<br />
U.S. at Dodger Stadium.<br />
COVID-19<br />
We’re running vaccination<br />
programs across all of Haiti<br />
and the state of Georgia.<br />
The pandemic has shown us<br />
that disaster preparedness and<br />
mitigation is needed everywhere<br />
– on our home soil alike. That same<br />
ethical imperative drove us to fill<br />
the void in March 2020 in LA, then<br />
across the US, then globally. We’ve<br />
administered over 6.3 million free<br />
COVID tests, 2.7 million vaccines,<br />
and a variety of essential resources,<br />
from hygiene kits to free lunches.<br />
Two years into the pandemic, long<br />
after others relented, we’re still<br />
working to protect underserved<br />
communities from the virus,<br />
from street vendors in Mumbai to<br />
schoolchildren in New Orleans.<br />
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Why it matters<br />
There’s no stopping disasters. The earth will shake, gust,<br />
erupt, ignite, and flood until the end of time. And there<br />
will be no shortage of manmade disasters, either. So why<br />
bother, you ask? Why even try? Because our actions today<br />
determine whether tomorrow’s disaster becomes a crisis.<br />
And we believe unabashedly and wholeheartedly that<br />
we can make a difference. That together, we got this.<br />
We’re working towards a more<br />
equitable future, but we’re not alone.<br />
We can’t do what we do without the incredible support of<br />
people and organizations determined to make a difference.<br />
Here are just a few of them.
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TOGETHER, WE EMPOWER COMMUNITIES IN CRISIS.<br />
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