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Corporate Citizenship |
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Corporate charitable giving is engrained within the MedAssets culture and core values and is reflected by the programs we’ve chosen to support. We believe that corporate America shares in the civic responsibility to give back and lend a hand to those less fortunate in time of need.
MedAssets supports the following charities on a company-wide basis:
In addition to these worthwhile programs, MedAssets actively supports our U.S. troops overseas by sending 100 care packages each month to soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Heart for Africa |
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Heart for Africa is a U.S.-based, non-profit organization that works alongside churches and children's homes in Swaziland to provide care and hope for children in this small African nation. Heart for Africa partners with local African organizations—and leverages American and Canadian assistance—to build self-sustainable children's homes and schools for orphans and vulnerable children, while also providing clothing, food and bedding, and other financial support. During the past five years, more than 5,000 people have traveled to Swaziland and volunteered at orphanages on the organization’s behalf.
Heart for Africa is developing a place of hope in Swaziland called Project Canaan. Project Canaan is a 2,500 acre, large-scale land development project being designed by business people who are working alongside Africans to bring expertise, resources and heart together in an effort to find a holistic solution to a complex set of issues. The project will provide training and employment, grow large amounts of food that can be exported to stimulate the local economy, and support orphans and vulnerable children on the property and across Swaziland. The Project Canaan Farm (PCF) will employ multiple approaches to agriculture, including both outdoor and greenhouse crop production, fish farming, dairy farming, the raising of chickens and goats, coffee production, and the planting and harvesting of fruit wherever possible on the land. The proceeds from farming will be used to help Project Canaan become a sustainable community, as well as to help support the existing children’s homes with which Heart for Africa has partnered. The Project Canaan Children (PCC) program will provide a safe haven for orphans and vulnerable children. Children’s homes and schools will be developed and built to provide for the ever-growing number of children being orphaned in the wake of the AIDS pandemic—giving them the chance to live and grow in a nurturing environment, as well as be educated, to help break the cycle of ignorance and poverty in their generation.
More information on Heart for Africa and its story can be found at http://www.heartforafrica.org/. |
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Hire Heroes USA |
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Hire Heroes USA (Hire Heroes) is dedicated to creating job opportunities for U.S. military veterans and their spouses through personalized employment training and corporate engagement. Headquartered in Alpharetta, Ga., the organization has earned a national reputation of excellence for successfully helping unemployed veterans find jobs—currently at the rate of one veteran confirmed hired every business day. The Hire Heroes team is comprised of military veterans—many with combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan—and business veterans who specialize in career placement of wounded or disabled veterans. Serving as a bridge to rewarding careers for returning veterans, Hire Heroes matches the career interests and skills of these veterans with the needs of companies who partner with the organization to fill job openings. The program offers placement services at no charge to veterans and employers and, as a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization, is supported through private and corporate donations.
For more information on Hire Heroes USA, please visit the organization's website at http://www.hireheroesusa.org. |
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MedShare International |
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MedShare International (MedShare) is a non-profit, Atlanta-based organization dedicated to improving healthcare and the environment through the efficient recovery and redistribution of surplus medical supplies and equipment to those most in need. To achieve this mission, MedShare collects surplus medical supplies and equipment from hospitals, distributors and manufacturers, and then redistributes them to qualified healthcare facilities in the developing world. This approach provides U.S. healthcare providers and suppliers with an environmentally and socially responsible alternative to disposal of medical materials, while ensuring that 100 percent of the medical materials distributed are needed and can be used. The organization also outfits medical missions and safety net clinics in both the U.S. and abroad.
To learn more about MedShare, please visit the organization's website at http://www.medshare.org. |
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Mully Children’s Family Charitable Foundation |
The Mully Children’s Family Charitable Foundation (MCF) is a faith-based Christian humanitarian organization committed to transforming the lives of orphaned, abandoned and abused children in Africa. Each year, MCF becomes a home and provides hope to street children, orphans, abandoned, abused, HIV and AIDS affected and infected, desperate and neglected children, who have nowhere to call home and no one to care for them. For the last 20 years, MCF has grown to be one of the largest children’s rescue, rehabilitation and development organizations not only in Kenya, but within Africa. MCF manages several integrated children’s programs, which include formally registered learning and training centers; sustainability, agricultural and environmental projects; and support for community development initiatives. MCF homes deliver hope and services to vulnerable children and the community, freeing those children from the pain of their pasts and helping to create self-reliant, independent professionals and development facilitators in both local and international organizations, successful families, and missionaries who serve in various child rescue and rehabilitation ministries in Kenya.
To help empower a new generation in Kenya, visit the organization’s website athttp://www.mullychildrensfamily.org/. |
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The American Fallen Soldiers Project |
The American Fallen Soldiers Project was formed to provide comfort and healing to the grieving families of America’s fallen military. The 501(c)3 non-profit organization makes available, at no cost to the family, an original portrait of their fallen loved one by artist Phil Taylor that fully captures the soldier’s appearance and personality. Seeking to make a profound and lasting contribution to each family, the organization restores on canvas a sense of life and presence to the fallen hero in the hope that the painting will provide a way for the family to spend time with their loved one when they need them most. Once the portrait has been completed, the artist personally presents it to the family during a special ceremony designed to honor the hero and his or her family, while also reminding community members of the sacrifice made to protect their freedom.
The goal, and heart of The American Fallen Soldiers Project, is to serve, comfort and encourage unconditionally and impartially the families who have lost a loved one serving in the Armed Forces. It is this commitment to excellence that defines the portraits, the staff and the organization.
For more information about The American Fallen Soldiers Project, please visit the organization’s website at http://www.americanfallensoldiers.com/. | |
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