AmeriCares

AmeriCares is a non-profit 501(c)(3) disaster relief and humanitarian aid organization. It was "established in 1982" and "has distributed more than $6 billion in humanitarian aid to 137 countries." For Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 2005 they received over $1.3 billion in contributions and over $0.3 million in government grants. 990 forms

AmeriCares solicits donations of medicines, medical supplies and other relief materials from U.S. and international manufacturers, and raises the funds to deliver them to local health and welfare groups. "On the ground, AmeriCares works through government ministries and welfare agencies of long-standing effectiveness like the Order of Malta, Mother Theresa's Sisters of Charity, Adventist Development and Relief Agency International, HOPE Worldwide, Project Mercy, Centres pour le Developpement et la Sante and Help The Afghan Children," it states on its website.

AmeriCares guidance includes Honorary Chairman Zbigniew Brzezinski, Ambassador at Large Barbara Bush, and Prescott Sheldon Bush, Jr.

The internal web link for "Supporters" did not work on 3/14/03. The internal link for "Financial Reports" did work but, other than board information, no names appear in these pdf files.

Donors
"Most of AmeriCares' medical, food and other disaster relief supplies ("merchandise") contributions are received from companies in the pharmaceutical industry. For the years ended June 30, 2002 and 2001, the largest contributor accounted for 28% and 16%, respectively, of total merchandise contributions. The three largest contributors accounted for 49% and 38% of total merchandise contributions, for the years ended June 30, 2002 and 2001, respectively." Source: 2002 Annual Report

Corporate Partners
Source
 * AstraZeneca, "one of AmeriCares’ newest pharmaceutical partners"
 * Nestle Waters North America
 * Becton, Dickinson & Company
 * Abbott Laboratories "has generously donated over $400 million of product to AmeriCares, providing life saving aid to people in over 100 countries."
 * AmerisourceBergen
 * Bristol-Myers Squibb
 * Henry Schein, Inc.

Charitable Partners includes

 * Save the Children, Hope Worldwide, Order of Malta, Project Mercy, Life for Relief and Development, American Near East Refugee Aid, Volunteers International of Latin America. Haitian Health Foundation

Directors
Accessed January 2010:


 * Robert C. Macauley 	Founder and Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation
 * Jane Macauley 	Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation
 * C. Dean Maglaris 	Lead Director, Group Vice President (Ret.), Pfizer, Inc.
 * Curtis R. Welling 	President & Chief Executive Officer
 * Carol B. Bauer 	Former Chairman, Board of Trustees, Norwalk Hospital
 * John L. Kelly 	Private Investor
 * Jerry Leamon 	Managing Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
 * Joseph W. Merrill 	Managing Member, Nor’East Capital, LLC
 * Joseph J. Rucci, Jr., Esq. 	Managing Partner, Rucci, Burnham, Carta, Carello & Reilly, LLP
 * Beverly Schuch 	Former Anchor and Correspondent for CNN
 * Chip Skowron, M.D., Ph.D. 	Managing Director, Morgan Stanley; Portfolio Manager, FrontPoint Healthcare
 * Fred Weisman	President (Ret.), Aviation Management Services
 * James C. Wheat III 	Managing Partner, Colonnade Capital, LLC
 * Stephen Winter, M.D. 	Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Norwalk Hospital; Clinical Professor of Medicine, Yale University

2006 Board Members
Source
 * Robert C. Macauley Founder and Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation
 * Alma Jane Macauley Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation
 * Curtis R. Welling President & Chief Executive Officer
 * Carol B. Bauer Former Chairman, Board of Trustees, Norwalk Hospital
 * John L. Kelly Private Investor
 * Jerry Leamon Jerry Leamon, Managing Partner, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
 * C. Dean Maglaris Group Vice President (Ret.), Pfizer, Inc.
 * Joseph W. Merrill Managing Member, Nor’East Capital, LLC
 * Joseph J. Rucci, Jr. Esq. Managing Partner, Rucci, Burnham, Carta, Carello & Reilly, LLP
 * Beverly Schuch Former Anchor and Corresponent for CNN
 * John G. Swanhaus, Jr. President, Swanhaus & Associates
 * Fred Weisman President (Ret.), Aviation Management Services
 * James C. Wheat, III Managing Partner, Colonnade Capital, LLC
 * Stephen Winter, M.D. Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Norwalk Hospital

2004 Board Members

 * Robert C. Macauley - Founder and Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation
 * Alma Jane Macauley - Co-Founder and Vice Chairman, AmeriCares Foundation
 * Curtis R. Welling - President and CEO, AmeriCares Foundation
 * Carol B. Bauer - Former Chairman, Board of Trustees, Norwalk Hospital
 * Elizabeth F. Frank - Vice President, Corporate Strategic Planning, Time Warner
 * John L. Kelly - Private Investor
 * C. Dean Maglaris - Group Vice President (Ret.), Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, Former Chair, Board of *[[Trustees, University of Vermont
 * Joseph W. Merrill - Managing Member, Nor’East Capital, LLC
 * Joseph J. Rucci, Jr. - Managing Partner, Rucci, Burnham, Carta & Edelberg, LLP
 * Beverly L. Schuch - Former Anchor, CNN
 * John G. Swanhaus, Jr. - President, Swanhaus & Associates
 * Fred Weisman - President (Ret.), Aviation Management Services
 * James C.Wheat III - Managing Partner, Colonnade Capital, LLC
 * Stephen Winter - Chief, Pulmonary and Critical Care, Norwalk Hospital

Directors Emeritus
 * Charles R. Chandler - Vice Chairman (Ret.) Greif Bros. Corporation
 * Norman W. Keller - Greenwich Hospital (Ret.)
 * Rev. Dr. Paul L. Kindschi - First Presbyterian Church of Tequesta, FL
 * Stuart H. Q. Quan - Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (Ret.)

2006 Advisory Committee
Source pdf
 * Barbara Bush - Ambassador-At-Large
 * Zbigniew Brzezinski - Honorary Chairman
 * Louis F. Bantle - Chairman Emeritus, Ust
 * Prescott S. Bush, Jr. - Prescott Bush Resources, Ltd.
 * Lawrence S. Eagleburger - Former Secretary Of State
 * Thomas J. Flatley - President, The Flatley Company
 * Robert W. Galvin - Chairman Of The Board (Ret.) Motorola
 * Gordon J. Humphrey - United States Senate (1979–1990)
 * James Earl Jones - Horatio Productions
 * Virginia A. Kamsky - CEO & Founder, Kamsky Associates, Inc.
 * Peter S. Lynch - Vice Chairman, Fidelity Management & Research Corp.
 * J. Richard Munro - Chairman And Ceo (Ret.) Time Warner, Inc.
 * Howard J. Rubenstein - President, Rubenstein Associates
 * Teresa I. Tarnowski - Americares Project Director (1982–1996)
 * Elie Wiesel - 1986 Noble Peace Prize

Was exactly the same in 2004, but minus Sol M. Linowitz (Honorary Chairman of the Board, Academy for Educational Development).2004 Annual Report

"From 1982-95, J. Peter Grace was Chairman of the Advisory Committee of AmeriCares, which included William E. Simon, Treasury Secretary under Richard M. Nixon. The Honorary Chair of AmeriCares is Zbigniew Brzezinski; Ambassador-At-Large is Barbara Bush and the Advisory Committee includes: Prescott S. Bush, Jr. (brother to former Pres. George Herbert Walker Bush), 33º Mason Gen. Colin L. Powell (ret.) and Sol M. Linowitz, chairman of Xerox Corp and officer of the World Future Society."

"AmeriCares, with the help of Friends of the Democratic Center in Central America (Prodemca), conducted an advertising campaign in the U.S. on behalf of La Prensa. The ads for La Prensa solicited funds from the public to pay for the shipment of newsprint to Nicaragua. Prodemca was a neoconservative group that provided U.S. government grants to La Prensa and sponsored pro-contra aid ads in U.S. newspapers using funds from Oliver North's secret aid network."

Publications

 * Annual Reports

Contact
88 Hamilton Avenue Stamford, CT 06902 USA Phone: 1-203-658-9500 Web: http://www.americares.org

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