Americares Rapid Impact and Support for Emergencies (RISE)

Ready, Respond, Recover

Good Health, Better World

Americares is a global health and disaster relief organization that helps people and communities around the world access health in times of disaster and every day. Each year, Americares reaches 80 countries on average, including the United States, with life-changing health programs, medicine, medical supplies and emergency aid. Americares is one of the world’s leading nonprofit providers of donated medicine and medical supplies. 

Americares responds to more than 35 natural disasters and humanitarian crises worldwide each year, establishes long-term recovery projects and brings preparedness programs to communities vulnerable to disasters.

We maintain a constant state of readiness, so we can deploy quickly when disaster strikes. Our relief workers are among the first to respond to emergencies, helping to restore health services for survivors. After disasters, we often stay for months —or years—helping communities recover.

Become a Partner

Americares Rapid Impact and Support for Emergencies (RISE) partners 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, RISE members play a part in funding every Americares emergency response, helping to save lives and improve health around the world.

RISE Partner Impact

RISE funds enable active response preparation before disaster strikes and immediate response when it does. As a RISE 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 Rapid Impact and Support for Emergencies (RISE) partners empower communities and frontline health workers across the continuum of disaster readiness, response and recovery.