We look back on 2016 with gratitude and amazement – at the generosity of our donors, the dedication of our partners, and the diligence of our employees. Because of the efforts of these and many others, we were able to fulfill our mission to improve the delivery of healthcare worldwide. In particular, in 2016 Globus Relief:
Donations were employed to back a full array of humanitarian programs (see list at right), from suppling clinics in Kosovo, to treating war-weary refugees in Syria and Turkey, to medical missions across South America, to vision treatment in Ghana. Domestic and local programs also benefitted – nursing schools, veteran programs, maternity care, community clinics, charitable dental care, homeless support services. And the list continues. Truly we are engaged in a tremendous work.
As we now look forward to 2017, we are enlivened by the opportunities to expand this work even further – to help more people, in more places, more efficiently. To accomplish this, we hope in 2017 to: (1) increase the dating on donated supplies to comply with international shipping guidance constraints (minimum of 12 month dating), (2) identify and obtain funding sources to ffset inbound donation and product acquisition costs, (3) heighten internal efficiencies through process consolidation and the eventual move into a permanent, non-leased building and (4) enhance our current IT resources to decrease labor costs while elevating product accessibility and transparency.
We cannot say enough about what the support of you, our donors, partners and other stakeholders, has meant to the good Globus Relief provided in 2016 and will yet mean to accomplishing our aim of increasing that impact in the future. We look forward to collaborating with you in this great effort in 2017 and beyond.
Globus Relief
Globus Relief was founded in 1996. While working in the salvage retail industry, two Salt Lake City businessmen were saddened to see viable medical and hygiene supplies frequently sent to landfills. Certain that these surplus resources could be rescued and put to good use, they created Globus Relief to efficiently channel overstocked, gently used, or short-dated supplies to humanitarian projects in Utah and around the world.
Since our founding, Globus Relief has distributed over $1 billion (fair market value) of supplies to more than 800 charities at work in over 140 countries. Twenty full-time employees oversee the work of gathering, processing, and distributing humanitarian supplies in our 100,000-s.f. warehouse in Salt Lake City, Utah. Volunteers contribute an average of 225 labor hours per week, the equivalent of 5.6 additional full-time employees.
Globus Relief is known for strong financial efficiency, historically keeping administrative and fundraising expenses to under 3% of our total budget.
