BRAC
Description: BRAC uses its programs to give those in need access to financial services, healthcare, education, social enterprise and livelihood development. Ultimately, BRAC's goal is for every person to realize their potential and full human rights.
Target demographics: BRAC targets people, mostly women and children, whose lives are dominated by multiple forms of deprivation.
Geographic areas served: Asia, Africa and the Carribbean
Board Members and Affiliation: (BRAC USA Board)
Chair of the Board
Lincoln C. Chen
President
China Medical Board
President & CEO
Susan M. Davis
BRAC USA, Inc.
Vice Chair of the Board
Ray Offenheiser
President & CEO
Oxfam America
Treasurer of the Board
Ronald Grzywinski
Chairman
ShoreBank Corporation
Secretary of the Board
Kamal Ahmad
President & CEO
Asian University for Women Support Foundation
Assistant Secretary & Treasurer of the Board
Richard A. Cash
Senior Lecturer
Harvard School of Public Health
Director
Charles Slaughter, Jr.
President
Living Goods
Our mission is to empower people and communities in situations of poverty, illiteracy, disease and social injustice. Our interventions aim to achieve large scale, positive changes through economic and social programs that enable women and men to realize their potential.
* made more than $6 billion in microfinance loans to 7 million women and their families,
* educated more than 6 million children,
* created more than 10 million employment opportunities,
* provided health education and services to 100 million people through women health promoters, and
* provided safe spaces, training and microfinance to thousands of adolescent girls
