Operation USA provides material and financial assistance to grassroots organizations that promote sustainable development, leadership and capacity building, income generating activities, provide education and health services, and advocate on behalf of vulnerable people. Our philosophy is that “privately-funded" means that we do not accept government funding; rather, we rely on the generosity of the American people and on their private institutions to support our mission. Ninety-six cents of every dollar is spent on programming.

Operation USA helps communities alleviate the effects of disasters, disease and endemic poverty throughout the world by providing privately-funded relief, reconstruction and development aid.

Three pillars define our work:
1) International & Domestic Emergency Relief: Operation USA rapidly and expertly provides on-the-ground aid by sending vital life-saving supplies and cash grants to aid recovering communities. Operation USA provides medical supplies, water, purification equipment, shelter materials and trauma counseling teams during the acute emergency phase. As the emergency phase slowly lessens and in response to continuing need, Operation USA makes long-term grants to local organizations to help them build their capacity to meet their communities’ basic needs.
2) Domestic Community Building: Operation USA has been working in the USA with over 200 non-profit community clinics providing them free basic medical supplies and equipment.

3) In-kind donations and shipments: Operation USA makes life-saving supplies available throughout the world to those who cannot afford them. We are expert in facilitating material donations from pharmaceutical, medical supply, nutrition and shelter supply companies to people in need.

For over 27 years, Operation USA has strengthened the communities we serve by providing over $250 million in medical supplies and equipment as well as disaster relief, long term development projects and training in critical skills. In recent years, our microcredit programs have encompassed over 5000 mostly rural women in several countries—lifting them out of poverty and improving the standard of living of their families as their earnings can now pay for basic necessities like food, education and health care.

Richard M. Walden

Cambodia, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Iran, Islamic Republic of, Lebanon, Morocco, Nicaragua, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Viet Nam, United States

California, Louisiana, Mississippi

3617 Hayden Avenue
Suite A
Culver City, CA 90232
Phone: (310) 838-3455
www.opusa.org
EIN: 95-3504080