Direct Relief was founded in 1950 to provide humanitarian aid to people in postwar Europe who were living in hardship. Over the past 60 years, Direct Relief has remained focused on helping people caught in difficult circumstances, bringing medical resources and financial assistance to health professionals serving impoverished communities around the world. Despite many changes over six decades, Direct Relief's humanitarian mission and efficient use of resources to help those in need regardless of attributes has remained constant.

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SIXTY YEARS OF SERVICE
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2. DANIEL ROTHENBERG
Sixty Years of
Sweeping Changes,
Human Constants
D irect Relief International was founded in the aftermath of World War II with the simple
aim of helping people in postwar Europe who were living under tremendous hardship.
They were caught in challenging circumstances, as history moved forward on a hopeful path
from a dark period.
Since that time, the accelerated march of progress—in science, technology, communications,
health care, agriculture, and economics—has been remarkable and worldwide in scale. The
global tide of the human condition has risen, as measured by child survival, access to food and
water, longevity, prosperity, and educational opportunities.
But humanitarian challenges persist. Poverty and poor health still reinforce each other,
creating enormous obstacles for an estimated one billion people. Those who are poor get sick,
stay sick longer, and die earlier than those who are not. And people who are sick tend to become
poor because they cannot work and spend whatever they may have trying to access health
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services that are frequently sub-standard.
Amid the sweeping changes of the last 60 years, Direct Relief has remained focused on
helping those caught in the undertow of history’s rising tide. In 1948, our war-refugee founders
William Zimdin and Dennis Karczag provided—initially with their own funds—food, clothing,
and medical aid to people living through the difficult period of postwar recovery in Europe. They
recognized that private efforts were crucial to reach beneath the large-scale government-led
rebuilding programs underway.
Today, Direct Relief’s assistance is focused on health, bringing medical and financial
resources (including essential medical products donated by many of the world’s leading healthcare
companies) to health professionals serving impoverished people in communities around the
world. In areas where governments and global markets are either unable or unwilling to engage,
Helping Expectant Mothers
these efforts are essential to improve the health of people who are sick or hurt.
Despite the changed circumstances, location, scale, and techniques of our work, the
humanitarian focus and attention to the efficient use of resources have remained constant. So
too has the approach of supporting local efforts in a respectful manner and without regard to
race, ethnicity, politics, religion, gender, or ability to pay.
In Fiscal Year 2008, Direct Relief’s humanitarian assistance provided more help, to
Protect Their Babies
more people, in more places than at any time in our history. Overall, our assistance programs
increased by over 50 percent from the previous year—funded entirely with private support. EVERY 48 SECONDS, A CHILD IS INFECTED WITH HIV, THE VIRUS THAT CAUSES AIDS. This is a profound
Sixty years into our mission, the simple goal of enabling people to live healthy, productive human tragedy whose primary cause is preventable. Without medical intervention, the chance that a mother
lives—regardless of the circumstances into which they are born or find themselves—remains will pass along the virus to her child is as high as 30 percent, but with proper testing and therapy, this chance
a powerful incentive. The tremendous improvement in overall living standards creates a can be nearly eliminated.
sharpened humanitarian imperative to assist those whose lives remain threatened by sickness, Direct Relief and corporate partner Abbott are working to eliminate the barriers to the testing of pregnant
disease, and injury that can be easily diagnosed and treated. women for HIV in countries where mothers and their children face the greatest threat. In 2007, Direct Relief
began distributing free, Abbott-donated Determine® HIV rapid test kits. Sixty-nine developing countries are
eligible for the program, including all countries in Africa, where the burden of HIV is heaviest.
This program,
along with Direct Relief’s
antiretroviral therapy drug
program which began last
year, represents a huge
leap forward in helping
health providers identify
and combat HIV across the
globe.
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3. LOS ANGELES FREE CLINIC
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DECEMBER 2004 In response to the
tsunami that forever altered life for Beginning with our founders’ aid to war-torn Europe in
2 millions of people living on the shores of
the Indian Ocean, Direct Relief provided
the late 1940s, Direct Relief’s sixty-year history includes
a long tradition of rapid EMERGENCY
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$57 million in direct aid, including over
$12 million in emergency cash assistance. and a commitment to RESPONSE
MATT MACCALLA
Our aid continues to enable local health long-term recovery. The last five years have seen an
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organizations to serve those who lost the
unprecedented number of emergencies overwhelm
most and have the most at stake in the
health systems. In each case, Direct Relief has moved
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long-term recovery.
With funding from Direct Relief, the Amrita Institute of Medical quickly to supply local healthcare professionals with
Sciences (AIMS) in southwestern India equipped a telemedicine van
needed medical and financial assistance to ensure
(left) to bring care to the many people too remote, sick, or poor to get to
a hospital. Since its delivery, the van has brought state-of-the-art care to they continue providing care to those affected.
40,000 people in tsunami-affected communities, using video conferencing
and real-time transmission of medical information to connect AIMS hospital Read detail on each of these responses at
staff with otherwise disenfranchised patients.
www.DirectRelief.org/
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efforts of Direct Relief in the Gulf States
following Hurricanes Katrina and
Rita—including $4.8 million in cash grants to
0 clinics and health centers and over $31.8 million (wholesale)
in medical products—the organization has worked to address gaps
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in the health system that leave so many uninsured and working poor
Americans without care. See the section beginning on page 14 to learn
DAMON TAUGHER
more about Direct Relief’s work in the U.S.
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OCTOBER 2005 Anticipating the massive need for long-term rehabilitative
services to treat traumatic injuries after the 7.6-magnitude earthquake
struck Pakistan on October 8, 2005, Direct Relief funded and continues to
0 support the Pakistan Institute of Prosthetic and Orthotic Science (PIPOS), the
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country’s only prosthetic training facility and limb manufacturing center. Direct
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Relief’s cash assistance established three PIPOS clinic sites in Bagh, Balakot, and
Besham (left), and covers the operating expenses for each facility for three years.
Works for
Direct Relief has supported earthquake-affected communities in Pakistan
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with more than $7.5 million (wholesale) in medical material, representing 1.5
million courses of treatment, and over $1 million in grants to 11 local healthcare
organizations.
theWorking Poor
AUGUST 2007 Working alongside long-time partners the Catholic
Archdiocese of Lima and the Peruvian American Medical Society,
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Direct Relief responded to the August 15, 2007, 8.0-magnitude
earthquake in Peru with $4.2 million (wholesale) in
specifically requested emergency supplies.
0 The Peruvian Ministry of Health informed Direct Relief that
the country was in need of Hepatitis B and rotavirus vaccines for
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the hardest hit populations. Together with Merck & Co., Inc., Direct
DAN SMITH
Relief was able to deliver $1.8 million (wholesale) worth of vaccines
for the immunization of children and adults (left).
IS A CHRONIC
CONDITION 6 OCTOBER 2007 As wildfires swept through Southern
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onprofit, community-based health centers and clinics are the main point of California, Direct Relief worked to support communities with resources
THAT AFFECTS ABOUT 5.5 PERCENT OF THE U.S.
access for health services for over 15 million U.S. residents. The majority of needed for recovery through 71 shipments—including 80,000 masks for
POPULATION. At the nonprofit federally qualified health locals and emergency personnel—valued at over $1.4 million (wholesale).
these patients have low incomes, and 40 percent have no health insurance. These
centers with which Direct Relief partners, the number Direct Relief provided $625,000 in emergency cash assistance to clinics and
centers and clinics are located in areas of high need, focus on prevention and primary
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jumps to 6.2 percent of all patients—over 900,000 firefighters, including $400,000 to the Council of Community Clinics on behalf
care, and collectively constitute a significant portion of the country’s health safety of their 17 San Diego County health centers, and $50,000 to the California
people.
net. Access provided by these health centers is essential for low-income people, and Department of Forestry’s Firefighters Benevolent Fund.
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Patients at these health centers and clinics, in
the care is cost-effective and serves larger public-health goals. Without these centers,
addition to having higher incidence of diabetes, also
already strained hospital emergency rooms often are the only alternative.
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disproportionately live in poverty (over 54 percent,
Among the many challenges that confront both health centers and their
compared to 12.5 percent nationally) and lack health DECEMBER 2007 The widespread civil strife that broke out in the aftermath of
uninsured patients is access to prescription medications. In partnership with health Kenya’s presidential election was unexpected and violent. Protests sparked by disputed
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insurance (40 percent, compared to 15.3 percent
centers, clinics, and healthcare companies, Direct Relief is addressing this challenge. election results and allegations of vote-counting impropriety gave way to fighting along political and
nationally).
The result is a rapidly expanding program through which Direct Relief provides then tribal lines. Dr. Hezron Mc’Obewa (left), director of the Kisumu, Kenya-based OGRA Foundation,
Across the U.S., Direct Relief provided 65 of its aided people caught in the crossfire.
medicines and resources to nonprofit clinical providers for the benefit of low-income,
partner clinics—serving a combined 670,000 patients As soon as the violence broke out, Direct Relief wired $25,000 to OGRA to purchase needed
uninsured patients. medicines and fuel, organized airfreight shipments of additional emergency supplies, and committed
annually—with Lantus insulin donated by sanofi-aventis,
more than 136,000 courses of antiretroviral medicine for patients with HIV whose treatment was
LORI WILLIS
In Fiscal Year 2008, Direct Relief provided 3.5 million prescriptions (valued
valued at $520,000 (wholesale). disrupted by the violence. Days later, Direct Relief contributed an additional $25,000 to help transport
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at $61 million wholesale) to more than 1,000 clinic sites in all 50 states. Having
“I cannot begin to tell you how important this is to displaced families, supply essential medicines, and support surgeons, doctors, and nurses.
built a system for the efficient, reliable, and secure provision of needed medicines for
our clinic,” wrote Jean Diebolt, medical director at the
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uninsured patients, Direct Relief is working to further strengthen the safety net that
Hope Project in Tenaha, Texas. “Your donations mean
catches the millions of working poor at risk of falling through the cracks.
our patients don’t have to sacrifice or make a decision
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The evolution of this domestic program also has highlighted the importance
whether to eat or buy medications.”
of involving health centers and clinics in emergency planning, preparedness,
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and response. Future efforts are aimed at expanding prescription assistance and
improving emergency response coordination among clinics and health centers
nationwide.
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4. DIRECT RELIEF ARCHIVES IBM Corporation Mr. and Mrs. John C. Bowen New York Football Giants, Inc.
Izumi Foundation The James S. Bower Foundation Ms. Anita C. Nonneman
Ms. Wendy E. Jordan Brownstein-Hyatt-Farber-Schreck Ms. Sandra Nowicki
Mrs. Joyce E. Joseph Builders Association Charity Mr. Dee Sterling Osborne
W. M. Keck Foundation Henry W. Bull Foundation P&G
The Klingbeil Family Bunzl USA, Inc. Pacific Capital Bancorp
Mr. Larry Koppelman and Mrs. Mrs. Helen Burnett Paras Diamond Corp.
Nancy Walker Koppelman California Association to Aid The J. Douglas & Marian R.
Mr. Barry Kravitz Ukraine Pardee Foundation
La Santa Casa de Misericordia Cambria Winery & Vineyard Mr. Devon Patel
The Lehrer Family Foundation Catholic Healthcare West Mr. Austin H. Peck, Jr.
The Limited Service Corporation Mr. and Mrs. James M. Peruvian American Medical
The Linbury Trust Celmayster Society – Northridge, CA
David Livingstone Missionary Chevron Overseas Petroleum Inc. Peruvian American Medical
Foundation – Tulsa, OK Children International Society – West Bloomfield, MI
MADRE Church of the Holy Communion Dr. Kevin W. Plaxco and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank N. Magid Coast Village Business Mrs. Lisa Plaxco
Mr. and Mrs. Donald Maharam Association, Inc. The Positive Transitions Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Mentor Corporation America’s largest nonprofit evaluator
Mr. Ken Maytag / Fred Maytag Colgate-Palmolive Company Foundation Foundation Merck & Company, Inc.
Family Foundation Community Foundation Silicon Potter’s Clay Bottle Drops Merz Pharmaceuticals, LLC named Direct Relief the nation’s
Mission Without Borders, Inc. Valley Power Equipment Company Bridging the Gap Microflex
The Cynthia and George Mitchell Ms. Helen S. Converse QAD Inc. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Microlife USA, Inc.
Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Brian Coryat Qdoba Mexican Grill BSN Medical, Inc. - Microspecialties, Inc.
Mitsui USA Mr. and Mrs. Marcus Crahan / Lord Paul and Orthopaedics GBU Midmark Corporation
The Henry E. and Lola Monroe The Julia Stearns Dockweiler Lady Leslie Ridley-Tree Cardinal Health Foundation Miltex, Inc.
Foundation Charitable Foundation Mr. and Mrs. J. Paul Roston Carlsbad Technology, Inc. Moldex-Metric, Inc.
Montecito Bank & Trust Mr. and Mrs. George Crawford RSP Architects, Ltd. Cell-Nique Mylan Laboratories, Inc.
Montecito Union School Mr. and Mrs. Leonard J. DiSanza Arthur N. Rupe Foundation Cera Products, Inc. Napo Pharmaceuticals
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Nakasone Dr. and Mrs. Wilton Doane Mr. and Mrs. Geoff Rusack / Chattem, Inc. Naryx Pharma, Inc.
New York Mercantile Exchange
Charitable Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Noble
Dr. and Mrs. Ernest H. Drew
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Everhart
Mr. and Mrs. Ted Ewing
Rusack Vineyard
Salvadoran American Health
Foundation
Cobalt Laboratories
Codman & Shurtleff
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Nationwide Medical/Surgical,
Inc.
Navix Diagnostix, Inc.
Newlyweds
Oracle Corporation Mr. and Mrs. Brooks Firestone sanofi-aventis ConMed Corporation Nellcor Socially conscious brides and grooms, like Andrew Firestone and his new wife Ivana Bozilovic,
Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Ostini / Dr. and Mrs. John M. Foley Santa Casa de Misericordi Covidien Neutrogena Corporation can have wedding guests donate to Direct Relief through their own www.DirectRelief.org
The Hitching Post & Hitching Food For The Poor, Inc. Schering-Plough Corporation Crosstex International New Chapter Vitamins
Post Wines Foxen Vineyard, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Ed H. Schollmaier Cumberland Pharmaceuticals Nexxus (Alberto-Culver) Web page (see back for more info).
Mr. and Mrs. Fess E. Parker Fruitful Yield Mr. and Mrs. Larry Schotz Cure Medical Nisim International
Partnership for the Children Fundacion Pro-Vista, A.C. Mr. and Mrs. Howard B. Schow / CVS Corporation North Safety Products
Pediatrix Charitable Fund, Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Gerber The Schow Foundation Cypress Pharmaceutical, Inc. Novartis Pharmaceutical
Our Investors
Mr. Alan R. Porter Ms. June H. Schuerch Den-Mat Corporation Corporation
Anniversary Sponsors Abbott, BD, FedEx, and
Josephine Herbert Gleis
Mr. John Powell and Foundation Selective Insurance DePuy (a Johnson & Johnson OHM Labs
Ms. Melinda Lerner
Mr. and Mrs. Michael E. Pulitzer /
The Ceil and Michael E.
Pulitzer Foundation Inc.
The Glenlivet Single Malt Scotch
Whiskey
Godric Foundation
God’s Hidden Treasures
Ms. Denise Selz
Seton Institute for International
Development
Mohammed Shaikh, Ph.D. and
Company)
DeRoyal
Dey Laboratories
Drug Plastics & Glass
Onyx Medical Corporation
Ortho-McNeil, Inc.
Ossur
Owens and Minor Company
60 th
Montecito Bank & Trust joined us in celebrating our 60th birthday with generous gifts
that will support key programs.
Mr. Randy Rettig and Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Ayesha Shaikh, M.D. E. Fougera & Company P&G
Ms. Ashley Williams Goodman Mr. Stanley Shopkorn East West Associates Pfizer, Inc.
Reebok Human Rights Foundation Mr. Myron C. Gretler Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual ETHICON Platinum Performance
Mrs. Nancy Roberts Mary Livingston Griggs and Adoration Ethicon Endo-Surgery Prasco Laboratories Direct Relief’s longest-running corporate partner continues its support in a myriad of
Rose Hills Foundation Mary Griggs Burke Foundation Ms. Carol L. Skinner Eveready Wholesale Drugs, Ltd. Professional Disposables
Ms. Maria Rosmann Mr. and Mrs. Steven R. Gumins Smart Family Foundation, Inc. evo Medical Solutions Progressive Medical ways: bolstering hurricane response, matching employee gifts, and supporting safe childbirth
The San Diego Union-Tribune Ms. Ashley Parker Snider Fenwal, Inc. International
The Gunzenhauser-Chapin Fund programs. In honor of their employees, three J&J CEOs recently gave generous cash gifts.
Mr. and Mrs. Denis R. Sanan Hanover Family Trust & Mr. Tim Snider Fine Science Tools, Inc. Prometheus Laboratories
Mr. and Mrs. Richard L. Schall Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Hardin, Jr. Spence & Chapin Services to FNC Medical Corporation Purdue Pharma, L.P.
CASH DONORS Mr. and Mrs. Richard Godfrey Santa Barbara Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Byrne / Forest Laboratories, Inc. Quest Diagnostics
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP Mr. and Mrs. David F. Hart Families
Honorary Chair ($1,000,000+) Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence L. Mr. and Mrs. C. William Schlosser/ J. E. Lillian Tipton Foundation Mr. and Mrs. James H. Selbert Forest Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Quidel Corporation, Rapid
St. Francis Foundation
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Abbott Fund Mr. and Mrs. Billy R. Hearn
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Goodman Nancy B. & C. William The California Endowment FSC Laboratories, Inc. Diagnostics Division
Seva Foundation Hegardt Foundation St. Mary Parish Land Company
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Adams Google Schlosser Family Foundation California Lithuanian Credit Fuji Photo Film USA Quixtar, Inc.
Shaker Family Charitable Heron Foundation Mr. K. Walter Stawicki
Anonymous Guyana Medical Relief, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Pete Schmidt- Union GlaxoSmithKline Reliant Pharmaceuticals
Foundation The Hexberg Family Foundation Mr. Sheldon Stone A dynamic group of students from five local high schools raise funds and awareness for Direct
H. Guy Di Stefano Estate Harman International Industries Inc. Petersen Campbell & Company Inc. Global Pharmaceuticals REM Eyewear
Mr. and Mrs. James A. Shattuck Mr. Doug Hickey Sunflower Foundation
Mr. Chip Harlow / Precision Strip Brett and Natalie Hodges / Mr. Michael Scott The Hon. and Mrs. Henry E. Catto Mr. and Mrs. Krishan G. Singh Goldmax Industries Repro-Med Systems, Inc. Relief projects around the world. Be on the lookout for their annual flower sale in March!
Conrad N. Hilton Foundation Mrs. Elizabeth A. Tehan
Mr. and Mrs. Jon B. Lovelace WWW Foundation SigmaTel / Catto Charitable Foundation Gowllands Limited Rigel Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Sidhu Singh Family Foundation Mr. Linus Ho Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas W. Tell, Jr.
M.E.G. Foundation Holy Cross Society Mr. and Mrs. Harold Simmons / Mr. Pierre P. Claeyssens GSMS Incorporated Rona Barrett Lavender
Six Furlongs, LLC Mr. Gerhart Hoffmeister Tellabs Foundation /
The Orfalea Fund Hy Cite Corporation Harold Simmons Foundation Mr. James Clendenen Havel’s Incorporated Company
Ms. Angela H. Skolnick / Honeywell Foundation Tellabs Matching Gift Fund
The Babette L. Roth Irrevocable Infinium Capital Management Mr. Thomas E. Simondi Crescent City Relief Fund, Inc. HDC Corporation Royal Chemical
The Skolnick Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stanley Hubbard Ms. Lee Thomas
Trust International Foundation The Sixty Four Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Cusack HemoCue Royce Medical
Ms. Margaret H. Smith Hutton Foundation Tissue Banks International
Santa Barbara County Vintners’ Mr. and Mrs. James H. Jackson / Ms. Thelma R. Smith Mr. and Mrs. Killick Datta / GBMI Mr. and Mrs. Michael D. Smith Hendry Telephone Products Sage Products, Inc.
Inamed Tomchin Family Charitable Trust
Foundation The Ann Jackson Family Mr. and Mrs. Robert Sommer Ms. Margaret E. G. Davis Henry Schein, Inc. Sandel Medical Industries, LLC
Stone Family Trust Indo-American Eye Care Society Trumpf Inc.
Ambassador of Health Foundation Steinmetz Foundation Dendrite International, Inc. Herban Essentials sanofi-aventis
Ms. Elizabeth Ash Strode and Inc. Ukrainian Civic Center, Inc.
($100,000 - $999,999) Johnson & Johnson Family of Mr. and Mrs. John Swift and the Diwaliben Mohanlal Mehta Hi-Tech Pharmacal Company, Sappo Hill Soapworks
Mr. Robert L. Douglas Mr. and Mrs. Palmer G. United Voluntary Services
TEA FIRE RESPONSE
The Allergan Foundation Companies Swift Foundation / MSST Charitable Trust Inc. Schering-Plough Corporation
Mr. and Mrs. John W. Sweetland Jackson, Sr. United Way of Santa Barbara
American Jewish World Service Mr. and Mrs. Peter O. Johnson, Sr. Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Dan Doctoroff Hogil Pharmaceutical Silverleaf Medical Products
The Thomas Collective Mr. and Mrs. Richard A. Johnson County
Amgen Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Donald S. Kennedy Julia & Emil Synkys Lithuanian The Doehring Foundation Hollister, Inc. Smith & Nephew / Orthopedics
Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. Thomson Ms. Judith Jones Vadasz Family Foundation
Anonymous Kind World Foundation Foundation The William H. Donner Foundation, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Towbes Home Diagnostics, Inc. Span-America Medical Systems,
Jordano’s Inc. Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Vapnek
Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Anticouni Dorothy Largay and Wayne Tenet Healthcare Foundation Inc. Hospira, Inc. Inc.
The Towbes Group, Inc. J.F. Kapnek Charitable Trust Vanech Family Foundation
The Antioch Company Rosing Mrs. Grace A. Tickner Mr. and Mrs. James Drasdo Housechem Spectrum
Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Karczag Venoco, Inc.
Armenian Relief Society of Ms. Nancy Lessner Trust Company of the West Mr. Grant Ehrlich / IAPYX Medical SRI Surgical
Mr. and Mrs. Paul H. Turpin Karl Storz Endoscopy-America, Video Products Distributors
Western U.S.A. Yvonne C. Lucassen Estate Mr. and Mrs. George Turpin, Sr. The Grant C. Ehrlich Trust Independence Medical STADA Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Union for Reform Judaism Mr. and Mrs. James Villanueva
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BD Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Lukos Turpin Family Charitable Mr. and Mrs. Thomas P. Elsaesser Weingart Foundation Inc.
Benton Oil and Gas Company MacDonald Family Foundation Foundation Baroness Leni Fe Bland Dr. and Mrs. John P. J. Kelly
Vistakon InstyMeds Corporation / Stryker Corporation irect Relief worked closely with public health and emergency
Wisconsin Nicaragua Partners of Mr. and Mrs. Guhan Viswanathan RedPharm Drug Sucal Medical, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Philip Berber Maine Community Foundation Tyco International Inc. Mrs. Elizabeth E. Kennedy
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Finefrock personnel from the moment the Tea Fire broke out in the
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America Wallis Foundation Integra LifeSciences Corporation SunNight Solar
Blue Cross of California Martone Family Trust U.S. Omen National Ms. Penelope D. Foley Mrs. Ellen Bayard Kennelly
Xi’an First Teaching Hospital Watling Foundation, Inc. International Truck and Engine Sunrise Pharmaceuticals
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Mrs. Marvel Kirby Montecito, California foothills on November 13. Direct Relief made its
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Blue Shield of California Mayo Clinic Organization Fukushima Family Fund Corp. Sunstar Americas, Inc.
Yorba Oil Company, Ltd. Mrs. John W. Watling, Jr.
Foundation McCormick Tribune Foundation United Armenian Fund Mr. and Mrs. Edward Gaylord Mr. Ishwan Kumar
Mr. and Mrs. Harold S. Wayne Invacare Surgistar, Inc.
inventory of medical supplies available to responding agencies, and
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John G. Braun Charitable Annuity R. K. Mellon Family The David Vickter Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gersho Dr. Ralph Kuon
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Weber Inverness Medical Nutritionals Tagg Industries
Trust Foundation WellPoint Foundation Mr. Paul F. Glenn Global Emissary ($25,000 - $49,999) L. S. Research, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. John F. Weersing Group, Inc. Tarascon Publishing
immediately began coordinating distributions of N-95 particulate masks
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Mrs. Maria Bregy Mentor Corporation Mr. Cooper Williams Dr. Bert Green and Ms. Alexandra Anonymous Herbert and Gertrude Latkin
Janssen Ortho McNeil Taro Pharmaceuticals U.S.A.,
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Wilmington Trust Company
Francois and Sheila Johnson Mercury Nancy E. Williams Family Brookshire / Brookshire Green A.N.E.R.A. Charitable Foundation
Brütsch Music for Relief Foundation Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Adams / Mr. Peter Laventhol
Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Wilson III Jarrow Formulas, Inc. Inc. with Santa Barbara County Public Health. Thousands of free masks were
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Johnson & Johnson Tea Tree Therapy
Bush Hospital Foundation New Horizons Outreach, Inc. Mrs. Doris A. Winkler Mr. W.T. Hammond Adams Family Foundation Lebanese American Association
California Community Foundation The Norcliffe Foundation Wood-Claeyssens Foundation Inc.
Synod Johnson & Johnson Consumer Tempur-Pedic, Inc. given to responding personnel, local residents, nonprofits, clinics, and
Dr. and Mrs. Melvin H. Haskell Jr. / African American Labor Center Mr. Joseph Kim-Hun Wong Companies Teva Pharmaceuticals USA
Mr. Bruce Campbell The Nurture Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Anant Yardi / The Haskell Fund Aidmatrix Levi Strauss Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. George S. Writer, Jr. / Johnson & Johnson Medical Textilease Medique, Inc. schools.
The Capital Group Companies Orfalea Family Foundation Yardi Systems, Inc. Hatch & Parent American-Nicaraguan Foundation Dr. and Mrs. Donald Lewis Joseph Weintraub Inc. TG Eakin Limited
Writer Family Foundation
Charitable Foundation Osprey Foundation Mr. and Mrs. David Yawitz Mr. and Mrs. Stanley C. Hatch Amigos Del Peru Foundation, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Donald J. Lewis
Youth for Direct Relief K.V. Pharmaceutical Company The Harvard Drug Group Respiratory conditions were also a major concern of those affected
Kawasumi Laboratories Ther-Rx Corporation
by the Sayre Fire in Los Angeles County. Direct Relief delivered medical
100% OF CONTRIBUTIONS ARE DEVOTED
America, Inc. Titan Corporation
MANUFACTURERS AND
DISTRIBUTORS PROVIDING
Kenad SG Medical, Inc. Tri-anim Health Services, Inc. material aid—including asthma inhalers and masks—to partner clinics in
Kentec Medical, Inc. Tyco Healthcare/Mallinckrodt
MEDICAL DONATIONS
Oxnard, Tarzana, Garden Grove, and Los Angeles.
TO OUR PROGRAMS.
King Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Vanguard
3M
KM Medical, Inc. Vaxgen
Abbott Many thanks to 3M, CVS, FedEx, GlaxoSmithKline, Johnson &
Laddawn Vistakon
AcryMed, Inc.
Lane Instruments Corporation Waldwick Plastics
Aearo Company Johnson, Neutrogena, Sperian Protection, and Zee Medical for their
All overhead (non-program) expenses are covered by a generous bequest. Alabama Outdoors
Leiner Health Products
LeMaitre Vascular, Inc.
Watson Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Western Scientific Co.
Alcon Laboratories, Inc.
Life Uniform Company Wisconsin Pharmacal Company,
generous donations in these efforts.
Alkermes, Inc.
Major Pharmaceuticals, Inc. LLC
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Cathcart Pallottine Center for Apostolic Consul General ($50,000 - $99,999) The Dorothea Haus Ross The Capital Trust Company of Lions Clubs International Allergan, Inc.
Christian Relief Services Causes Alcon Laboratories, Inc. Delaware Foundation Marlex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Wyeth
Foundation Allied Healthcare
Mr. and Mrs. Chris Conway Mr. Harold A. Parma American Jewish Joint Mr. Joseph C. Lizzio Marlyn Nutraceuticals, Inc. Young Dental
Mrs. Jean Hay and Mr. John Hay Mrs. Carolyn Pesnell Amory Altana, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crawford Mr. and Mrs. Donald E. Petersen Distribution Mr. Richard E. Lunquist Martin Roth & Co. Zee Medical, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. W. Scott Hedrick Mr. and Mrs. David H. Anderson American Diagnostic Medicine,
Roy R. and Laurie M. Cummins Pfizer, Inc. Committee, Inc. The Hon. and Mrs. John D. Mason Vitamins, Inc. Zimmer Orthopedic Surgical
Henry Schein, Inc. Anonymous Inc.
Fund Mrs. Evans S. Pillsbury Anonymous Macomber Matrixx Initiatives, Inc. Products
The William and Flora Hewlett The Anschutz Foundation American Health Products
Mr. and Mrs. John D. Curtis Potash Corporation of The American Society of the Most Mrs. Adele Mairs Maxima Packaging & Supply Zooth
Foundation ARA-Charlotte Charitable Corporation
Digicel Grenada Ltd. Saskatchewan, Inc. Venerable Order of the Mrs. Louise F. Maison McKesson Medical-Surgical
Priscilla Higgins, Ph.D. and Foundation Amgen This list does not monetize the
The Disarm Education Fund, Inc. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander M. Power Hospital of St. John of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin S. Marble McNeil Consumer &
Mr. Roger W. Higgins / Mr. and Mrs. Omar Arnesen / Amsino International time donated by generations
Dodge & Cox The PRASAD Project Jerusalem Kim Margolin, M.D. Specialty Pharmaceuticals
Higgins-Trapnell Family Arnesen Family Foundation Anda, Inc. of unpaid volunteers whose
Peggy and Steve Dow Rock Paper Scissors Mrs. Elizabeth Potter Atkins Marian Medical Center Foundation Anonymous Mead Johnson Nutritional
Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Anderson J. Arnold Group energies and generosity have
Mr. and Mrs. James Eiting Foundation Mr. and Mrs. William J. Bailey / Catholic Healthcare West Ansell Healthcare Incorporated fueled Direct Relief for the
Estonian American Fund for Mr. and Mrs. James J. Roehrig / BASF Corporation Highbourne Foundation Aveda Corporation Marquee Medical Action Industries
B & B Foundation
Aramco Services Company
Medical Illumination
past 60 years, including
Economic Education, Inc. Roehrig Family Foundation Mr. and Mrs. Philip M. Battaglia Mr. and Mrs. George Holbrook, Jr. / MLB Advanced Media LP AstraZeneca the exceptionally devoted
ExxonMobil Corporation / Rotary International The James Ford Bell Foundation George W. Holbrook, Jr. Bank of America Foundation, Inc. Mr. Ralph B. Montgomery International, Inc.
Auburn Pharmaceuticals individuals who have served
ExxonMobil Foundation Ms. Nancy D. Russell Boehringer Ingelheim Cares Foundation Bare Escentuals Beauty, Inc. Montgomery Street Foundation Medical Innovations, Inc.
Bausch & Lomb Surgical Company on the Board of Directors. We
FedEx Mr. Ummul Ruthbah Foundation Mr. Erle Holm Mrs. Cornelia Barr Mr. Peter Morton Medline Industries, Inc.
Baxter International, Inc. extend our heartfelt thanks to
Mrs. Barbara Hunter Foster / San Francisco Foundation Mrs. Beatrice (Brownie) Borden Mr. and Mrs. S. Roger Horchow / Beckmen Vineyards MedPharm, Inc.
Samuel B. and Margaret C. BD them and to our donors who
The Pacer Foundation Santa Barbara Bank & Trust Mr. James S. Bower The Horchow Family Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Bellowe Mosher Foundation Medtronic Neurologic contributed $1 – $24,999, who
Beaumont Products, Inc.
GlaxoSmithKline Foundation Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Bradlees Stores, Inc. Charitable Foundation Bishop Rotary Foundation Technologies are too numerous to include
MyFonts.com, Inc. Biomet, Inc.
Global Partners for Development Foundation Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Mr. Thomas Black MedVantx, Inc. here by name.
Hospira Foundation NetEffects Blue Ridge Medical, Inc.
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VICE CHAIRMAN Dorothy F. Largay, Ph.D.
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TREASURER James A. Shattuck
Bruce N. Anticouni • Frederick Beckett • Frederick P. Burrows • Jon E. Clark
Kenneth J. Coates • Thomas J. Cusack • Killick Datta • Ernest H. Drew, Ph.D.
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Robert C. Nakasone • Natalie Orfalea • Carmen Elena Palomo • John Romo
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CHAIRMAN Frank N. Magid
Lawrence R. Glenn • E. Carmack Holmes, M.D.
S. Roger Horchow • Stanley S. Hubbard • Jon B. Lovelace
Hon. John D. Macomber • Donald E. Petersen • Richard L. Schall
John W. Sweetland
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