The UPS Foundation Commits $14.1 Million To Humanitarian Relief & Community Safety
March 29 2017 - 9:30AM
From imbedding its logistics experts with the United Nation’s
agencies to vaccine tracking programs to drones delivering medical
supplies, The UPS Foundation, the philanthropic arm of UPS (NYSE:
UPS), is taking on global humanitarian relief and community safety
in a big way. This year, The UPS Foundation will award $14.1
million in grant funding and in-kind support to advance
humanitarian relief and community safety initiatives around the
world.
"Preparing, responding and helping communities recover from
natural disasters and other humanitarian crises occurring around
the world are tragedies where The UPS Foundation and UPS can help
save lives by contributing our logistics expertise, healthcare
solutions and global reach,” said Eduardo Martinez, president of
the UPS Foundation and chief diversity and inclusion officer for
UPS. “We are honored and humbled to collaborate with our United
Nations and NGO partners to help people and communities when they
need us most.”
Among the initiatives, The UPS Foundation has teamed up with
Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and Zipline, a California-based
robotics company, to leverage drones to deliver life-saving blood,
medicines and vaccines to remote communities, beginning with
Rwanda. The global partnership, which was announced in May 2016 and
formally launched the first drone deliveries in October 2016, so
far has resulted in expediting 260 units of blood to more than 130
patients in rural hospitals across Rwanda. The program will expand
to include vaccine delivery in the near future. The UPS Foundation
also is working with UNICEF on the rollout of Visibility for
Vaccines (ViVa), a cutting-edge tracking system that enables early
identification of potential stock outs and overstocks of vaccines.
ViVa will help global communities ensure supply of life-saving
vaccines by providing alerts of critical shortage and overstock
situations and allowing for corrective actions.
Another 2017 focus is the expansion of The UPS Foundation’s
Humanitarian Expert on Loan program in which it loans UPS
executives for long-term assignments with NGOs to provide
logistical support and technical assistance. In 2016, The UPS
Foundation deployed logistics managers to strengthen supply chains
in emerging markets for organizations such as Gavi, UNHCR and the
World Food Program.
Among other humanitarian organizations receiving grants this
year are:
- American Red Cross, in support of the Annual Disaster Giving
Program that enables the Red Cross to provide food and shelter
immediately following disasters as well as the Home Fire
Preparedness Campaign and Global Disaster Preparedness Center
Disaster Resilience App
- CARE USA, to aid with capacity building and training workshops
for CARE logisticians as well as the launch of a commodity tracking
system platform pilot
- Good360, to support DisasterRecovery360 platform technology
enhancements and the development of Disaster Council and Recovery
Kits
- National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD), to
support the organization’s Long-term Recovery Initiative
and Long-term Recovery Mini-Grant Program
- Operation Hope, toward the Disaster Recovery Fund to help
disaster survivors with financial recovery solutions as well as the
Financial Recovery Preparedness Program for small businesses
- Bernard Project, Inc., to support the National Disaster
Resilience & Recovery Lab (DRL), which provides re-building
support for communities that have been impacted by disasters
- UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, toward capacity building for
global fleet management and emergency preparedness supply
training
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce Corporate Citizenship Center, to aid
in the expansion of the Saglam Kobi Business Disaster Resiliency
Project in Turkey and the launch of the Connecting Business
disaster resilience program in Mexico
- World Food Program USA, in support of its Zero Hunger National
Supply Chain SCAN assessments and other initiatives
The UPS Foundation also will award grants that help extend the
reach of UPS Road Code™ safe driving training program for teens,
which is a major global community safety initiative of the company
that was first launched in 2009.
The program is offered in the U.S. with Boys & Girls Clubs
of America and overseas with youth development organizations.
Taught by UPS volunteers and based on the company’s safe-driving
methods, the program is available to teens between the ages of 13
and 18. To date, more than 36,000 teenagers have
participated. The program operates in Canada, China, Germany,
Mexico, the United Kingdom and the United States. This year, UPS is
expanding the program into the United Arab Emirates.
These grants are part of The UPS Foundation’s commitment to
global volunteerism. For more information about UPS’s philanthropic
and volunteerism efforts, please visit www.UPS.com/Foundation.
About The UPS Foundation
UPS (NYSE: UPS) is a global leader in logistics, offering a
broad range of solutions including the transportation of packages
and freight; the facilitation of international trade, and the
deployment of advanced technology to more efficiently manage the
world of business. Since its founding in 1907, UPS has built a
legacy as a caring and responsible corporate citizen, supporting
programs that provide long-term solutions to community needs.
Founded in 1951, The UPS Foundation leads its global citizenship
programs and is responsible for facilitating community involvement
to local, national, and global communities. In 2016, UPS and its
employees, active and retired, invested more than $110 million in
charitable giving around the world. The UPS Foundation can be found
on the web at UPS.com/Foundation. To get UPS news direct, visit
pressroom.ups.com/RSS.
Kristen Petrella
404-828-4182
kpetrella@ups.com
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