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

“The news about Afghanistan and the related news about Iraq has raised the whole profile of that part of the world that most Americans had not been thinking about at all, and that profile has helped to make the work [of CARE] relevant, very real,” Neuman explains. “In a very different way, I would say that as horrifying as the Katrina tragedy is here on our own soil, I think that some of the terrible displacement of people who are now refugees and the public health issues that are being talked about right in our own backyard are making Americans very much aware of the terrible tragedies natural disasters can bring.