Global Impact
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Global Impact was founded over 50 years ago. It raises money for international charities through employee giving campaigns. Since its beginning, Global Impact has raised more than $400 million and has supported over 50 leading international charities – including CARE, Project HOPE, Doctors Without Borders, AmeriCares and World Vision.
Global Impact’s charities work in developing countries across the world, providing a wide range of services to the poor. Global Impact offers emergency assistance to disaster victims, such as those left homeless after Hurricane Katrina and Hurricane Rita and recent earthquake in Pakistan and Indonesia; feeds the hungry and teaches them effective farming techniques; educates expectant mothers about caring for themselves and their children; provides clean water, medicines and disease prevention programs; builds schools, trains teachers and teaches people to read; and provides jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities through training and microloans
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[edit] History
Global Impact grew out of the desire of Americans to be responsive to the needs of people living in developing countries. The organization was founded in 1956 as International Service Agencies (ISA) and changed its name in 2003 to Global Impact in order to better convey its mission and that of its member charities.
[edit] Key Dates
- 1956: The Federal Service Joint Crusade (FSJC) is organized as an umbrella group for international health and welfare agencies. It is at first made up of two member agencies primarily interested in overseas assistance programs: CARE and Radio Free Europe. In this first year, the organization raises a total of $698,203.
- 1966: At the suggestion of U.S. Civil Service Commissioner Vernon Gill, FSJC changes its name to International Service Agencies.
- 1981: International Service Agencies has 11 member charities.
- 1983: International Service Agencies has more than doubled its roster of member charities to 23.
- 1993: Renée S. Acosta begins her tenure as president and CEO to further the organization's commitment to a strategic transformation.
- 1996: International Service Agencies named as the Principal Combined Fund Organization (PCFO) to administer the Combined Federal Campaign–Overseas.
- 2003: International Service Agencies changes its name to Global Impact in order to better illustrate its mission and its member agencies.
- 2003: Global Impact named as the Principal Combined Fund Organization (PCFO) of the Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area (CFCNCA).
- 2005: Global Impact launches Global Alert, an electronic crisis response program that gives corporations and their employees a tool to respond to crises. In its initial launch, $1.1 million was raised for tsunami relief.
- 2005: Global Impact announces an agreement with CreateHope to assist corporations with distribution of charitable gifts raised in private workplace giving campaigns.
- 2006: Global Impact marks 50 years of assuring help for people in need.
[edit] Programs and Partnerships
In recent years Global Impact has developed innovative programs and partnerships to assist corporations and their employees with their charitable giving efforts. These include:
- Global Alliance, a program developed by Global Impact as a vehicle to form strategic alliances with U.S. corporations to facilitate the flow of new philanthropic corporate funds into developing countries.
- Global Alert, an electronic crisis response program that offers corporate partners a tool for helping their employees make donations to relief funds. Launched after the catastrophic tsunami of December 26, 2004, the first Global Alert raised over $1.1 million for tsunami relief.
- Charitable fund management, established in 2005, to assist corporations with distribution of charitable gifts raised in private workplace giving campaigns. The program helps companies administer their corporate philanthropy and employee giving programs in a manner that reduces costs to the companies.
