Americares

Americans announced a $50 million gift from an anonymous Connecticut family.

I'm sorry, AmeriCares, not just Americans.

AmeriCares announced a $50 million gift from an anonymous Connecticut family, which is the largest in its history.

This comes as sudden U.S. aid cuts have disrupted health programs worldwide.

Big donors are still stepping up where they see urgent needs.

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According to the Associated Press, AmeriCares has received a $50 million gift from an anonymous Connecticut family, the largest donation in the global health nonprofit's history.

The family has supported AmeriCares for about 30 years, and the gift will be made over a five-year period.

AmeriCares says that half will help advance its goal of enabling 100 million people to access quality healthcare by 2030, while the other half will strengthen the organization's endowment.

The gift comes as cuts in international assistance have disrupted health programs around the world.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy reports that the Dave and Cheryl Duffield Foundation has committed $250 million over the next five years to expand access to affordable veterinary care for family pets.

I, uh, I've spent 25 years working in, uh, international development in NGOs, spent 15 years in disaster response, uh, around the world, kind of in the front lines of earthquakes and wars and hurricanes and floods, and working in mostly medical, uh, relief.

Uh, I worked for an organization called Americares, and then I moved into an organization called Charity Water and spent 11 years building clean water projects in, uh, sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia.

You know, really remote rural villages where people are drinking from Dirty streams, and we'd go in and build clean water projects from really transformative kind of work.

So I spent my whole career doing that, and the way I got into that really was kind of the way I was raised.

I'm Ed Donahue.

The coffers for Americares is now flush with cash after it's received the largest donation in the organization's history.

Correspondent Marcela Sanchez has that story.

Americares is promising to send more medicines to high-need areas after receiving a fifty million dollar gift.

The donation came from an unidentified Connecticut family that's been involved with the organization for decades.

Half of the money will help the nonprofit reach its goal of providing quality healthcare to one hundred million people around the world by 2030.

It also plans to increase support for US health centers and states where they expect to see more residents without health insurance.

President and CEO of Americares, Christine Squires, says the group felt the impact of US aid cuts, but its strong donor network is helping the organization respond to more than twenty emergencies, including the floods in Nepal.

I'm Ben Thomas with an AP News Minute.

AmeriCares has received its largest donation ever.

Marcela Sanchez has details.

AmeriCares is promising to send more medicines to high-need areas after receiving a $50 million gift.

The donation came from an unidentified Connecticut family that's been involved with the organization for decades.

Half of the money will help the nonprofit reach its goal of providing quality health care to 100 million people around the world by 2030.