CARE

“CARE Australia is an Australian charity and international humanitarian aid organisation fighting
global poverty, with a special focus on empowering women and girls to bring lasting change to
their communities.” (www.care.org.au)

As an international organisation CARE seeks to provide hope, stress tolerance and social justice, while helping those who through poverty have been denied dignity and security. They aim to serve individuals and families in the poorest communities in the world providing economic opportunities, influencing policy decisions at all levels of government, addressing discrimination and strengthening a community’s capacity for self-help.  

As a non-religious and non-political organisation CARE focuses on working with women and girls to bring lasting change to their communities through the confederation composed of 14 national members. This forms one of the world’s largest independent, international emergency relief and development assistance organisations.

Transparency

For any large organisation raising funds from the public or government, transparency in all aspects of business is essential. CARE has large amounts of comprehensive information for ongoing projects, financial accounts and how the public can further help them achieve their goals. They provide telephone and fax numbers for additional information along with email, Facebook and Twitter accounts for updates on their works around the world. Given this, a score of 9/10 is given for the transparency of the corporation.

Social Impact

CARE Australia is an international humanitarian aid organisation, as such they are heavily involved with third world countries. Their resources are used in conjunction with CARE’s other national sectors to cover 5% of the African continent, 77% of the Asian Pacific and the remaining 18% in countries like Afghanistan, Haiti, Jordan, West Bank/Gaza and Yemen.

In these areas CARE works with the people helping them to set up education services, improve health and increase their income, leading to a self-sufficient and improved loving condition for all.

The great work and change they are bringing to so many cannot be underestimated, 9/10.

See table below for a further break down of expenditure.

Expenditure/Donation ratio

In the last financial year CARE worldwide raised $64,746,294 in revenues from donations, AusAID, foreign government and CARE international members. This is a staggering amount of money in which 90% made it directly to the third world.

Administration costs have only ever varied by 1% over the last three years resulting in a 5% expense for the 09/10 financial year. That equates to over $3.2 million alone. All fund raising activities, advertisements and local community education makes up the remaining 5% expenditure for the year.

Rating of 8/10

With an overall score of 26/30 we at 1DonationCentre rate the CARE organisation as one of the best. It is highly transparent in its entirety and brings unequalled social change to those who are in desperate need of it. 

Mark, 1DC