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

“It becomes all encompassing very quickly. When an organization focuses very much on the poorest and most vulnerable people of the world, on the ultimate realization of human dignity and the value of human life, when something of that proportion happens, it begins to change the focus to sort of an all-hands-on-deck mentality,” he says.