CARE USA shifts into fundraising overdrive when disaster strikes, but its day-to-day development plan keeps it at the forefront of humanitarian-aid organizations.

By Margaret Battistelli Gardner

CARE faced a similar scenario in the months following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Only then, tension and anger rivaled shock and sorrow in the American psyche. In addition to funneling massive amounts of money into funds specifically created in response to the attacks, Americans looked inward and focusedon organizations that did work within their own borders.