The mission of the Center for Global Initiatives is to help in the creation of self-sustaining programs that improve access to healthcare in underserved communities throughout the world. Learn more at: http://centerforglobalinitiatives.org/ and http://www.drchrisstout.com/

1. Becoming a New
Humanitarian:
Examples and Tools
Chris E. Stout
Center for Global Initiatives &
University of Illinois at
Chicago, College of Medicine
Center for Global Health
9 August 2018

2. I was doing an increasing
amount of medical mission
work and being asked to grow
my involvement (“Accidental”
Humanitarian), and my mentor
said “you need to start a
501(c)3.” So I went to those I
knew to learn how they did it

3. I want to tell you about my experience
with starting a non-profit, the big
problem we experienced, and the pivot
we made…

4. So our pivot was to focus on one key
project, and share what we had learned
with others to help them accelerate and
reduce friction in doing humanitarian
work.
In other words, to open-source
humanitarian intervention!

5. The basic idea is that doing good work and
helping others shouldn’t be so hard…

6. We found that those folks generally
broke into two categories:
• Those wanting to start their own non-profit/NGO,
so we coach and teach how-to, and
• Those just wanting to do the work or a project, so
we help and act as a fiscal intermediary.

7. Regardless of which camp you are
in the following tools may be of
interest, and they all are freely
available…

9. We also produced two books so far,
with royalties going to support the
Center as well as support our mission.

10. We developed a podcast to highlight
interesting people that all have a
humanitarian aspect to their lives or
work.

11. Outcomes of our key project partner
• We started a kindergarten in Tanzania.
• 40 kindergarten children were able to join primary school.
• It’s planned that 40 more children will be able to be registered once
they are 6 years old.
• 21 new students were able to be registered into the kindergarten.
• 22 orphan students supported by CGI passed their final national
exams in primary school and they have been selected to join public
secondary schools.
• 11 girls who accomplished their final secondary school exams and did
passed very well, 10 we top scorers in Tanzania. They have been
selected by the Ministry of Education to join in the special national
government school program.

12. “73 Cents a Life”
• Huruma Designated Hospital and Kibosho Hospital deals with TB,
pneumonia, immunosuppression, diabetes, accidents/injuries,
hypertension, and one season, a particularly bad malaria epidemic.
• We were able to procure the proper medications needed, and at
follow-up, we learned that our partners had been able to treat and
thus help prevent over 4,100 people from dying of malaria.
• Twenty-eight percent of those infected were children under the age of
five — an even more vulnerable group.
• When calculating the cost, it averaged out to...
• 73 cents a life.

13. In terms third party cred:

14. What’s next?
Consortium for Humanitarian Intervention

16. Thank you…
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DrChrisStout.com
CenterForGlobalInitiatives.org