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| Founded | November 1979 (as Save the Refugees Fund) |
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| Founders | Dan O'Neill & Ellsworth Culver |
| Type | Non-Profit Organization 501(c)(3) |
| Headquarters | Portland, Oregon, U.S. |
| Melanie Thomas Armstrong, Carin Beumer, Kito de Boer, Vijaya Gadde, Alan J. Hartley, Lucy Lee Helm, Cecily Joseph, Emmanuel Lulin, John Makinson, Kristin A. Mannion, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna, Lesley Ndlovu, Stanley Wanyoike Njoroge, Kendi Ntwiga, Farah Pandith, Paul Y. Song, Ludovic Subran, Kofi Taha, Thierry Tanoh, Rebecca ("Becca") Van Dyck, Pepijn van Dijk | |
Key people | Tjada D'Oyen McKenna [1] |
Revenue | US$ 488,000,000 (2023)[2] |
| Expenses | US$ 434,817,000 (2016)[3] |
Staff | 6,000[4] |
| Website | www |
Mercy Corps is a global non-governmental, humanitarian aid organization operating in transitional contexts that have undergone, or have been undergoing, various forms of economic, environmental, social and political instabilities. The organization claims to have assisted more than 220 million people survive humanitarian conflicts, seek improvements in livelihoods, and deliver durable development to their communities.[5]
Mercy Corps proposes a mission to "alleviate suffering, poverty and oppression by helping people build secure, productive and just communities."[6] As of August 2021, the organization reports to be operating within 38 countries, including Afghanistan, Central African Republic, Myanmar and Yemen, with programs focused in a number of humanitarian sectors ranging from conflict management, children & youth to agriculture and food security.[7][8]
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