My Nonprofit Reviews
maryw
Review for Global Links, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
I've been volunteering at Global Links for almost ten years, after going to volunteer with a group of friends. I now go twice a week, and help sort donated supplies and organize and pack outgoing boxes of supplies. It is very rewarding because you know you are both helping people in the developing world--and in a real way, with deliveries to actual small hospitals visited by Global Links staff. Nothing sits on a dock where it is stolen. Also, you are helping to keep medical supplies out of Pittsburgh landfills, where all these supplies were going to end up until Global Links founder Kathleen Hower thought of this ingenious idea. I have met wonderful people volunteering there, and have formed friendships with other volunteers who go when I do and staff.
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If I had to make changes to this organization, I would...
A year ago I would have said try to help them move into a larger space where they could combine warehouse, offices, supply packing storage, and volunteer working spaces. But now Global Links has achieved that in their new Green Tree headquarters. Good work!
Would you volunteer for this group again?
Definitely
For the time you spent, how much of an impact did you feel your work or activity had?
Life-changing
Did the organization use your time wisely?
Very Well
Would you recommend this group to a friend?
Definitely
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2013
Review for Global Links, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Global Links is the most successful nonprofit organization around. With a small staff and very low overhead, they recycle medical supplies from hospitals (which would have thrown these supplies out) and send them to specific partner hospitals (mostly in Latin America) which are desperate for basic medical equipment, including beds and sheets! Directed by talented staff members, volunteers do all the sorting and repacking of supplies for shipment, each day and many evenings.
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What I've enjoyed the most about my experience with this nonprofit is...
working with the other volunteers and the staff members, and helping keep tons of medical supplies out of landfills and helping to save lives.
When was your last experience with this nonprofit?
2009
