Americares
General
General
The founder of Americares.
Who is Bob Macauley?
How many emergencies did we respond to around the world, helping more than 684,000 survivors through emergency programming across 22 countries.
What is 30 emergencies?
Americares work began in this country in 2016 due to the Zika outbreak.
What is Puerto Rico
This acronym stands for "Paid Time Off," which refers to the time off employees can take for vacation, sick days or personal leave.
What is PTO?
Informal monthly meeting where our peers share deeper insights about a program, project, or process across the departments and the countries we work in—a space designed to promote knowledge sharing and foster cross-communication across the entire organization.
What are Programs Deep Dives?
The year Americares was founded.
What is 1979?
The first Americares Free Clinic was opened in this year
What is 1994?
The country where Americares implements the Climate Resilience for Frontline Clinics Toolkit for Rural Health Units.
What is the Philippines?
This phrase is often used when a colleague is attempting to speak on a virtual call but they cannot be heard.
What is "You are on mute"?
What are the semi-annual meetings for Programs to share updates, best practices, and lessons learned from their respective projects with the broader organization.
What is Programs Updates?
We supported more than 4,000 health centers, conducted 270 health projects and delivered $1.89B in aid to this many countries.
What are 91 countries?
The term to describe providing psychosocial support for healthcare and frontline workers.
A: What is "helping the helper"?
Americares Free Clinics are based in these 4 CT cities
What is Danbury, Stamford, Norwalk and Bridgeport?
This name is often used by the US Programs team as a clever way to refer to the day of the week "Thursday".
What is Friday Junior?
Bi-Weekly Meeting for all of Americares
What is ASM All Staff Meeting
The number of people Americares hopes to Reach as direct and indirect program participants in the next 5 years.
What is 100 million?
Two countries Americares is currently supporting in response to Hurricane Melissa
What are Haiti & Jamaica?
Our work in this country first began when Americares responded to the Ebola outbreak.
What is Liberia?
This greeting is often used at the beginning of All Staff Meetings to welcome participants.
What is Good Morning, Afternoon and Evening everyone?
The annual three-day gathering of global MHPSS staff to exchange best practices and share lessons learned across Americares.
What is the MHPSS Congress?
The 3 strategies for Programs.
What is 1) Deepen & Sustain Impact 2) Work Locally, Engage Globally 3) Build Our Brand and Base?
What is the current longest standing project in Tanzania?
What is the Bugando fistula project?
These Americares India vans operate in 4 states, serve in 455 locations, provide free medicines and collectively provide 260,000 free consultations annually.
What are Mobile Health Centers (MHCs)?
The phrase founder Bob Macauley would write on sticky notes to motivate Americares colleagues. (Hint: Phrase was also showcased in our recent Giving Tuesday campaign.)
What is "Make it Happen" (MIH)?
What is the capacity-building series designed to strengthen our shared skills in Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL) and program design
What is Americares Learning Lab
How many people work at Americares globally?
What is 598?
We helped this number of people have reliable, equitable access to quality medicines distributing 9M+ prescriptions and 3.2M+ supplies across 7,000 shipments.
What is over 1.9 Million People?
In this country, the Americares AME team has collaborated with ideas42 and Women's Health to Wealth, piloting the "Chance" game to improve adolescent sexual and reproductive health outcomes. A: What is Ghana?
What is Ghana?