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

One important thread that ran through all the post-Sept. 11 messaging, however, is that CARE’s ongoing work is vital in helping to “create the kind of world where terrorism couldn’t breed, where terrorism couldn’t foster, and that through cultural understanding, by addressing the things that cause people to turn to terrorism to begin with, the kind of extreme poverty that can create a sense of desperation that there’s nowhere else to turn, that through their work with CARE, they could take positive strides toward creating a better world,” Hicks says.