West Africa is being plagued by an outbreak of Ebola since early 2014. Ebola is a terrifying disease that has no cure and causes its victims to bleed to death from the inside out. Since June, there has been a new outbreak and is spreading fast. Support organizations like Doctors Without Borders and American Red Cross working to provide the people affected with medical emergency aid.

Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the island of Carriacou on July 1, 2024 as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, making its way through the island nations of Antigua, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Homes, businesses, and infrastructure throughout the region have been destroyed, fatalities have been reported, and those impacted are facing displacement and devastation. The hurricane has since been upgraded to a Category 5 storm and is projected to hit Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and the Yucatán Peninsula later this week. The selected nonprofits are responding to impacted areas to provide support and resources to those affected. Please note the organizations included in this Fund are subject to change as we learn more about needs on the ground.

Hurricane Beryl made landfall on the island of Carriacou on July 1, 2024 as a powerful Category 4 hurricane, making its way through the island nations of Antigua, Grenada, and St. Vincent and the Grenadines. Homes, businesses, and infrastructure throughout the region have been destroyed, fatalities have been reported, and those impacted are facing displacement and devastation. The hurricane has since been upgraded to a Category 5 storm and is projected to hit Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and the Yucatán Peninsula later this week. The selected nonprofits are responding to impacted areas to provide support and resources to those affected. Please note the organizations included in this Fund are subject to change as we learn more about needs on the ground.

The war has resulted in over 4 million Syrians refugees and double the number have been displaced by more than four years of war. We are in the midst of the Europe's biggest refugee movement since WWII. The Syrian Refugee Relief Fund is dedicated to supporting organizations working hard to provide humanitarian aid to the countless refugees fleeing the war zones in Syria.

A list of organizations that are helping with the Rohingya crisis according to the NY Times, Fast Company, and observations from a recent trip to Cox's Bazar. IOM and Doctors Without Borders are not available through BrightFunds.

Support a few organizations that are providing aid to those suffering in Yemen.

Calling all Boxer Chefs! Don your apron and arm yourself with your favorite whisk and spatula...it's time for the Global Box.org cooking challenge! The Global Cooking Challenge is designed to offer a fun and creative way to showcase your favorite recipes and culinary skills, raise funds for organizations providing food for our communities, and encourage reflection on what it would be like to be reliant on a food bank to feed your family. In true Boxer fashion, it will also secure bragging rights and a very coveted Boxer Top Chef title! Here are the rules: 1. Primarily use non-perishable, and pantry staples  2. 8 ingredients or less (not including spices, water, oil) 3. No special equipment (pressure cooker, sous vide, etc) 4. Dishes judged based on creativity, nutrition and presentation Videos will go through a preliminary round of judging by Box.org global leads. Finalists will be judged by Chef Philippe, Steph Carullo and Amanda Healy Collins.  What's at stake? - Big time bragging rights, and we mean MAJOR - Winners featured during 5/29 Friday Lunch - Box.org donation to the charity of your choice How to get started 1. Submit your $25 entry fee to this fund! 2. Upload a 1 minute video between 5/11-5/22 (https://cloud.app.box.com/f/c284922de27140c19045e030949600aa) 3. Spread the word...the video with the most upvotes receives a Boxer choice award Questions or want to trash talk? Reach out to #boxorg-cooking-challenge on Slack!

This year has been challenging for so many, but we can all come together to help put food on the table for families.

On World Humanitarian Day August 19, the world commemorates humanitarian workers killed and injured in the course of their work, and we honour all aid and health workers who continue, despite the odds, to provide life-saving support and protection to people most in need. This year World Humanitarian Day comes as the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic over recent months. Aid workers are overcoming unprecedented access hurdles to assist people in humanitarian crises in 54 countries, as well as in a further nine countries which have been catapulted into humanitarian need by the COVID-19 pandemic. Please join Lucid to support this cause. This day was designated in memory of the 19 August 2003 bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 22 people, including the chief humanitarian in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly formalized the day as World Humanitarian Day.

For the past 16 years Cisco has partnered with Second Harvest of Silicon Valley to tackle food insecurity during the Virtual Race to End Hunger. And each year, we have won the race, outraising teams from the Bay Area in donations. While we’re proud of our track record, we're aiming our sights even higher to make a difference globally. That’s why we’ve created a fund to fight hunger globally. Donate to the below organizations through this fund or find a food pantry or hunger relief organization closer to you.

Every day, millions of people around the world experience chronic hunger and food insecurity, despite the world's supply of food resources. Chronic hunger not only impacts physical health, but emotional health and growth and development, with several more far-reaching and often devastating impacts. World hunger is a symptom of several root causes, including poverty, conflict, famine, disease, natural disasters/climate change, global economics, and issues with food availability and accessibility, among others. The following organizations are working towards their shared mission of solving the global hunger crisis. These organizations provide food resources to communities in need around the world, prepare and distribute meals during times of crisis and disaster, implement sustainable food programs, and develop policies to drive food distribution and improve food accessibility worldwide. Your donation to this Fund will help these organizations work towards the ultimate goal of reaching zero hunger by 2030.

Thousands of people are dead and many more are injured after a massive earthquake rocked Turkey and Syria Monday morning. The magnitude 7.8 quake was one of the strongest to strike the area in more than a century. Amid severe aftershocks, Turkey’s Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD) has called for international help. Many other organizations are also on the ground responding. You can help these 12 humanitarian organizations on the ground by donating to this fund.