The Intrepid Basis’s half-year replace offers a have a look at how we’re monitoring on our mission to create optimistic affect by the enjoyment of journey, neighborhood and connection.
This yr, we’ve set an bold objective to lift $2 million, supporting extra companions than ever earlier than in our over 20 yr historical past.
Whereas Intrepid has an over three-decade-long observe file pioneering purposeful journey to deepen our affect, this yr we’ve introduced our company technique and philanthropy nearer collectively than ever.
On this method, we’re focusing our entire workforce on help for optimistic change, and we’ve expanded our personal Basis workforce to assist us get there.
Whereas we publish a full rundown of our work in our built-in annual report, we felt it was essential to share the small print of what’s already underway – and achieved! – as we attain the midway level of the yr.
We’d love to listen to your ideas on what we’ve been as much as. Drop us a line to share your suggestions.
Supporting those that want it most in Turkey and Syria
Essentially the most important second for The Intrepid Basis and the broader worldwide giving neighborhood this yr has been the response to the devastating earthquake in southeastern Turkey and Syria in February.
Many people can solely think about the dimensions of catastrophe, however our Intrepid neighborhood was fast to rally round our emergency enchantment, which launched inside 24 hours of the primary quake.
In somewhat over two months, we raised $308,000, together with matched donations from Intrepid, for the Australia Pink Cross to supply fast and long-term humanitarian help to victims. This helped native Pink Crescent groups to distribute:
- Over 16 million scorching meals
- Over 13 million bottles of unpolluted water
- Over 50,000 blankets and three,000 tents
Intrepid additionally donated all income raised by the sale of journeys to Turkey within the first quarter of the yr, and as all the time coated the Basis’s administrative prices, guaranteeing 100 per cent of donations went immediately the place they had been wanted most.
27 new methods we’re creating affect
We’ve additionally welcomed 27 new companions spanning each continent and greater than 20 nations. They help work in a variety of areas, together with conservation and wildlife, gender equality, human rights, youth empowerment, local weather motion and financial growth.
What’s particular about this new cohort is that our native groups on the bottom helped us to pick out them. Intrepid’s best asset is our individuals and with over 25 operations places of work throughout six continents, we’re within the lucky place to faucet into the information of our native workers who know finest what societal and environmental points have an effect on their communities.
Many of those are small, lesser-known charities which might not in any other case obtain worldwide consideration or help. They embody a girl’s shelter for refugees and migrants in Greece (Amurtel), technical abilities suppliers for Indigenous artisan weavers in rural Andean communities in Peru (Awamaki) and life-saving veterinarians caring for injured mountain and Grauer gorillas in Rwanda and Uganda (Gorilla Docs).
And for the primary time, we’ve paired all our companions to particular Intrepid journeys. Which means our world travelling neighborhood is assured to both go to or study our companions’ inspiring work each time they journey with us. Intrepid has additionally dedicated to creating a $5 donation to the Intrepid Basis on behalf of each buyer.
Rising our workforce and growing our affect
All of this might not have been doable with out the help of our rising workforce, which has nearly doubled in only one yr and features a newly appointed fundraising lead.
We’ve additionally been buoyed by the ‘all hands-on deck’ strategy of our broader Intrepid workforce, who’ve dived at any alternative to help Basis tasks, together with by their very own fundraising! It is a true reflection of the purpose-driven mindset throughout our enterprise.
Trying forward
We’ve constructed momentum to this point, however with six months of the yr nonetheless to go, I do know we will obtain much more. Developing, I’m excited for our annual flagship fundraising occasion, the Blue Dragon Marathon Stroll, and we shall be co-hosting a crowdfunding occasion with The Funding Community and Australian Worldwide Growth Community happening in our Melbourne HQ.
Along with our travellers’ help, we will proceed to vary the best way individuals see the world and have a optimistic affect the place it’s wanted most. Appears like a profitable mixture to me.
Our full 2023 built-in annual report shall be printed in March 2024. Be taught extra about The Intrepid Basis and discover out how one can become involved at theintrepidfoundation.org.
