NGO - Mercy Corps

 Mercy Corps is an international non governmental organization (NGO) focusing on humanitarian aid especially in underserved communities. Founded in 1979 in the United States, Mercy Corps was originally created to refugees from areas dealing with conflict. Mercy Corps is now operating in over 40 countries, and has global recognition for the work they do. The main goal backed by Mercy Corps is to reduce poverty, and help areas dealing with extreme issues. They do this by supporting communities long term providing food, helping local economics, and working to address climate issues. 

Mercy Corps carries out their mission by creating programs and also offering emergency relief. After things like disasters they offer relief by bringing food, water, and safe shelter. For the long term development goals they involve themselves with local business programs, introducing agriculture technology and financial help services. Often they will work alongside local governments for support. They are not a traditional membership program, but they have a global network of people who work for them. Those people include a mix of employees, volunteers, and also supporting organizations. Most of the staff members partnered with them work within the country they are from, making the ability of having someone a part of the culture they are working with a plus when building a strong community and understanding of how things are. 

Mercy Corps is generally successful, and achieves their goals. They have been evaluated in various different ways on their success, and those evaluations show that their program improves everyday life, making necessary things like food more easily available. They are also seen in action immediately following natural desitasters within a quick amount of time for their relief support. With where they operate, often being in zones of conflict, they do struggle to sustain proper care at times, but with the right support they will do what it takes to achieve their goals. Mercy Corps is funded multiple different ways such as, government grants, private donations, and corporation partnerships. This allows them to help in various different fields of work when responding to larger donors, along with the help they offer with their funding.