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Americares Emergency Response Partners

By becoming an Americares Emergency Response Partner (an AERP), your company will help provide the reliable funding base necessary for Americares to respond swiftly and effectively to disaster events around the globe – the ones you see in the news and the ones you don’t.

If you have questions about becoming an Americares Emergency Response Partner, please contact dmaguire@americares.org

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Ready, Respond, Recover

Health is On the Way

For nearly 40 years, Americares has helped communities prepare for, respond to and recover from disasters in the U.S. and around the world. Our emergency response experts are among the first to respond and stay as long as needed, helping to restore health services for survivors. Each year, we respond to an average of 30 natural disasters and humanitarian crises, establish long-term recovery projects and bring disaster preparedness programs to vulnerable communities.

Become a Partner

Americares Emergency Response Partners (AERP) build the foundation from which our responses are launched. Their annual commitment provides a reliable stream of flexible funding, which is critical to maintaining a constant state of readiness and launching robust responses to emergencies worldwide. By supporting the core, underlying capabilities of our emergency response program, AERP members play a part in funding every Americares emergency response, helping to save lives around the world.

Emergency Response Partner Impact

AERP funds enable active response preparation before disaster strikes and immediate response when it does. As an AERP member, you help:

Maintain an emergency inventory of medicine for rapid deployment
Preposition medical and relief supplies in disaster-prone countries
Maintain an international roster of on-call disaster response experts
Monitor disasters around the world as they unfold
Conduct needs assessments with health centers and government agencies
Respond to large disasters before incident-specific funding is received
Respond to hidden disasters that lack media attention or dedicated funds but affect millions

Americares Emergency Programs empower communities and frontline health workers across the continuum of disaster readiness, response and recovery.

Our Partners

Currently our Americares Emergency Response Partners include:

Alexion Pharmaceuticals

Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. shares Americares mission to provide urgently needed relief to people affected by disasters around the globe. The company and its employees have helped us maintain the expertise and capabilities necessary to launch emergency responses swiftly and effectively.

AmerisourceBergen

AmerisourceBergen has been a dedicated Americares partner since 2005, providing both product donations and financial support.

Anthem Foundation

Anthem has been a partner to Americares in our emergency responses since the earthquake in South Asia in 2005. The company has helped us to deliver health and opportunity to people and communities affected by some of the most severe disasters of the past decade.

athenahealth

athenahealth and Americares have teamed up to strengthen the Free and Charitable Clinic sector – a lifesaving resource for the millions of un- and under-insured people across the United States.

Bristol Myers Squibb

Since 1986, Bristol Myers Squibb and the Bristol Myers Squibb Foundation have supported many of Americares major programs, from disaster response and ongoing medical aid deliveries to supporting volunteer doctors traveling overseas to provide charitable care.

Chevron

One of our longest-standing partners, Chevron has provided Americares with significant support to achieve our shared objectives to bring health and relief to people affected by poverty and disaster worldwide since 1988.

FCA Foundation

FCA Foundation joined Americares as a partner in 2017, and seeks to support outcomes in its communities that ensure people can enjoy equality and dignity.

Horizon Therapeutics

Horizon Therapeutics and Americares forged and exciting new partnership in 2017. Together, we are working to advocate for greater collaboration between the corporate and nonprofit sectors and improve the health of people affected by poverty and disaster—here at home and around the globe.

Medtronic

Medtronic is a world leader in medical technology and a mission-critical partner to Americares. For over 30 years, they have helped us respond to emergencies and strengthen health systems around the globe.

Northrop Grumman

Northrop Grumman is one of Americares oldest and most dedicated partners, having joined us in our work to provide health and opportunity worldwide in 1998. Since then, we have worked hand-in-hand to respond to some of the world’s most severe emergencies.

Odyssey Group

Headquartered just down the road from Americares in Stamford, Connecticut, the Odyssey Group has been a strategic partner since 2007. Its Foundation is one of the largest supporters of Americares free clinics in Connecticut as well as a key partner in responding to emergencies and providing health programs around the globe.

Patagonia

Patagonia’s partnership with Americares is driven by the company’s efforts to protect the natural world and global communities. By supporting Americares, Patagonia is going farther than ever in supporting the health and well-being of people and places near and far.

Southwest Airlines

Southwest Airlines is an essential partner in helping Americares put health at the center of action and support people and partners in all 50 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. By providing flight vouchers and emergency response funds, the airline helps deliver health and relief far and wide.

Voya Financial

Voya Financial and Americares share a commitment to bringing urgently needed help to people in crisis no matter the challenges. For more than 10 years, Voya Financial, its employees and the Voya Foundation have helped to ensure that Americares is prepared to respond to emergencies.

Vertex Foundation

The Vertex Foundation is a staunch supporter of Americares emergency responses, providing steady support through the AERP program and quick to offer additional helpwith emergencies arise.

Xylem

Xylem Watermark and Americares have forged an exciting partnership to ensure that people around the world have the water, hygiene and sanitation education and infrastructure to stay healthy.

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Health Makes Everything Possible

Our Impact with Your Giving Dollar

Generous donors make all our achievements possible. We are able to respond to more disasters, expand our health programs and save more lives because of the individuals, foundations and corporations that trust Americares to improve the lives of people in the United States and around the world.

More than 98% of our resources support health programs.
Americares efficiency with your charitable dollar is one reason that we’re trusted by donors and consistently receive high marks from charity evaluators.