Welcome to the Squarespace BrightFunds fund for Family Caregiver's Month 2023! Our fund focuses on supporting nonprofits whose mission impact Caregivers and their loved ones. We carefully selected each nonprofit in the fund to focus on representing the multitude of experiences within the Caregiving community. Caregiving can take so many forms; across family members, chosen family, friends, colleagues, and our communities. By supporting this fund, you're contributing to someone's story and contributing to a community that supports one another. Join us in making a positive impact as we come together to honor Caregivers and their loved ones.

A list of organizations that are helping with the Rohingya crisis according to the NY Times, Fast Company, and observations from a recent trip to Cox's Bazar. IOM and Doctors Without Borders are not available through BrightFunds.

As we approach the holiday season, we have an opportunity to reflect on how we can give back to our communities. CORE HR is excited to host a virtual donation campaign to support one of FORgood’s three chosen pillars of giving – food security. This initiative aims to eliminate hunger, support sustainable agricultural practices, and ensure that every community member has access to nutritious and consistent food sources through several partner charities, including Rise Against Hunger, World Food Program USA, No Kid Hungry, Meals on Wheels, Heifer International, and Action Against Hunger.

This year has been challenging for so many, but we can all come together to help put food on the table for families.

On World Humanitarian Day August 19, the world commemorates humanitarian workers killed and injured in the course of their work, and we honour all aid and health workers who continue, despite the odds, to provide life-saving support and protection to people most in need. This year World Humanitarian Day comes as the world continues to fight the COVID-19 pandemic over recent months. Aid workers are overcoming unprecedented access hurdles to assist people in humanitarian crises in 54 countries, as well as in a further nine countries which have been catapulted into humanitarian need by the COVID-19 pandemic. Please join Lucid to support this cause. This day was designated in memory of the 19 August 2003 bomb attack on the Canal Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, killing 22 people, including the chief humanitarian in Iraq, Sergio Vieira de Mello. In 2009, the United Nations General Assembly formalized the day as World Humanitarian Day.

The theme of World Food Day 2021 is "our actions are our future". World Food Day celebrates the global progress made toward zero hunger and highlights the world’s commitment to ending world hunger by 2030. Celebrated annually on 16 October, World Food Day promotes global awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger, and to highlight the need to ensure healthy diets for all. Collective action across 150 countries is what makes World Food Day one of the most celebrated days of the United Nations’ calendar. Hundreds of events and outreach activities bring together governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the media, and general public. They promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure healthy diets for all. #WorldFoodDay 2021 will be marked a second time while countries around the world deal with the widespread effects of the global COVID-19 pandemic. It’s a time to look into the future we need to build together. Bright Funds created the 2021 World Food Day Fund so that you can support the work of great organizations addressing hunger in worldwide. #WorldFoodDay #FoodHeroes fao.org/world-food-day

We're all fortunate enough to not have to worry about our basic needs - food, water, hygiene. Not everyone has that luxury. During this time of year where we are spending time with family and friends, buying gifts, and taking time to ourselves, let's not forget the tens of millions of children and adults around the world who do not have their basic needs met. Let's do our best this holiday season to help others and fight against hunger. Action Against Hunger is a non-profit global humanitarian organization that takes decisive action against the causes and effects of hunger. It saves the lives of malnourished children, ensures everyone can access clean water, food, training and healthcare, and enables entire communities to be free from hunger. Last year alone, Action Against Hunger served more than 25 million people in nearly 50 countries.

World Food Day celebrates the global progress made toward zero hunger and highlights the world’s commitment to ending world hunger by 2030. Celebrated annually on 16 October, World Food Day promotes global awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger, and to highlight the need to ensure healthy diets for all. Collective action across 150 countries is what makes World Food Day one of the most celebrated days of the United Nations’ calendar. Hundreds of events and outreach activities bring together governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), the media, and general public. They promote worldwide awareness and action for those who suffer from hunger and for the need to ensure healthy diets for all. Bright Funds created the World Food Day Fund so that you can support the work of great organizations addressing hunger in worldwide. The composition of nonprofits in this fund is subject to change. #WorldFoodDay #FoodHeroes fao.org/world-food-day

Every day, millions of people around the world experience chronic hunger and food insecurity, despite the world's supply of food resources. Chronic hunger not only impacts physical health, but emotional health and growth and development, with several more far-reaching and often devastating impacts. World hunger is a symptom of several root causes, including poverty, conflict, famine, disease, natural disasters/climate change, global economics, and issues with food availability and accessibility, among others. The following organizations are working towards their shared mission of solving the global hunger crisis. These organizations provide food resources to communities in need around the world, prepare and distribute meals during times of crisis and disaster, implement sustainable food programs, and develop policies to drive food distribution and improve food accessibility worldwide. Your donation to this Fund will help these organizations work towards the ultimate goal of reaching zero hunger by 2030.