To immediately aid, sustainably support, and empower communities located in the most remote and difficult-to-reach disasters and humanitarian emergencies.

Aid for all: A world where no one is left without support in the immediate aftermath of a natural disaster, humanitarian crisis, or daily emergency.

Source: Nonprofit submitted responses

Goal One: Expand the reach of Health Systems Development: Develop and launch new programming in two additional countries - Partner with national entities to support host government health strategies

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Two: Maintain deployment readiness and the capacity to rapidly respond to emergency relief efforts in the event of a large-scale disaster requiring international assistance.

Goal Type: Grow, expand, scale or increase access to the existing programs and services.

Goal Three: Expand the Board of Directors by 50%: Recruit three new members.

Goal Type: Invest in the capacity of our organization (financial, management, technical, etc.).

Describe an investment in leadership

To enhance employee and volunteer capabilities, NYCMedics makes available online training platforms offering everything from health sector issues and program management to fundraising and leadership development. Additionally, NYCMedics encourages staff participation in sector conferences, working groups, and forums and covers expenses associated with these engagements enabling staff to lead and participate in discussions on a regional and global scale, attend workshops and plenaries on topics relating directly to our mission and engage in meaningful discussions with global leaders and peers in our sector. The Board of Directors provides direct support and makes available external support through consultants and/or securing experts who volunteer their time and resources to advance leadership capacity. Lastly, we are currently in the process of seeking assistance from facilitators to guide NYCMedics organizational strategic planning efforts that include Board development.

This organization mobilizes for mission in the following ways:

• Strategic Partnerships

• Networks of Collective Impact Efforts

• Thought Leadership

• Raising Awareness

• Community Building

What are this organization’s external mobilizaton efforts?

NYCMedics is committed to the humanitarian imperative – the right to receive and give assistance wherever it is needed. We work in unison with host governments and global response mechanisms for disasters, complex emergencies, and sustainable development initiatives to save lives and lessen human suffering. Through preferred vendor relationships, we secure competitive pricing and delivery mechanisms that allow for rapid deployment. We develop collaborative partnerships with companies and organizations that donate essential medicine, medical supplies, and logistical support. We maintain an “ultralight in form, function, and philosophy” approach. We do not prescribe to red tape and bureaucracy but embrace the ability to identify a need and respond immediately. Our ethos safeguards integrity and adaptability; we respond appropriately and purposefully to each humanitarian crisis or development initiative based on the needs of the community and do it in partnership with local stakeholders.

Historically, NYCMedics focused solely on an acute need humanitarian aid basis, deploying short term emergency medical teams in the wake of large-scale disasters. However, recognizing the need for improved prehospital care and a greater number of trained professionals in many environments we have worked, we expanded programming to include Health Systems Development, which focuses on strengthening emergency medical infrastructure and disaster response capabilities of local and national stakeholders. In light of the ever-increasing frequency and intensity of disasters, as well as the increasing burden of communicable and non-communicable diseases experienced in low- and middle-income countries, over the last 12-18 months NYCMedics has made a concerted effort, a fundamental shift away from prioritizing humanitarian aid, to focusing intently on expanding development programming. While we will maintain disaster deployment readiness, we believe it is vital to invest in vulnerable communities. This is in line with the expanding view by the World Health Assembly, and other similarly minded organizations, that there is an increasing realization of a profound need to develop prehospital care and disaster preparedness capabilities in many countries across the globe. It also supports the growing effort to increase the localization of aid by partnering with and prioritizing key stakeholders to strengthen health infrastructure and response mechanisms ensuring local systems have the means and capacity to respond. Just like disasters, medical emergencies can strike at any time, most of which are amendable to prehospital care. As reported by the WHO, emergency care is among the most cost-effective public health interventions, and strengthening prehospital care has been shown to reduce mortality by 25-50%. Prehospital care is an affordable, proven intervention, and we believe that all people, no matter where they live, should have access to this lifesaving service.