Our interest in making a significant social impact is born out of the understanding that contributing to causes greater than any individual or the company drives a stronger sense of purpose, fulfillment and morale. As part of broad social impact initiative, each year CASA Demographics donates a minimum of 2% of all research profits to a different charitable organization with high levels of credibility, efficiency and direct impact to an underfunded cause.
Doctors Without Borders
Doctors Without Borders (also known in French as Médecins Sans Frontières) is an international humanitarian group dedicated to providing medical care to people in distress, including victims of war, natural disasters and healthcare crises around the world. Doctors Without Borders was awarded the 1999 Nobel Prize for Peace, several decades after beginning its work in 1972 with its first major relief effort helping victims of a devastating earthquake in Nicaragua. Other significant missions followed, including the provision of care for victims of fighting in Lebanon (1976), Afghanistan (1980), and the Russian republic of Chechnya (1995). Today Doctors Without Borders works in almost 80 countries, and has continued to work to relieve famine, to offer medical care to casualties of war, and to assist refugees in many countries throughout the world. In 2003 Doctors Without Borders was a founding partner in the organization Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi), which works to create medicines for diseases such as malaria, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS. The group has played an important role in caring for the victims of disease outbreaks. Most recently, Doctors Without Borders played a vital fast-reaction role in dozens of countries during initial COVID-19 outbreaks, ranging from senior assisted living facilities in Italy, to distributing protective equipment in heavily populated slums with Haiti, to screening homeless people and other vulnerable groups in Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Meals on Wheels America
Meals on Wheels is a proven public-private partnership that effectively addresses the challenges of aging by promoting health and improving quality of life for the USA’s most vulnerable seniors. Over 7.1 million seniors in the USA live in poverty, and the nation’s senior population keeps growing exponentially thus further outpacing the resources available to serve vulnerable older adults and putting their health and well-being in jeopardy. Meals on Wheels America supports more than 5,000 community-based programs across the USA that are dedicated to addressing senior isolation and hunger. This network serves virtually every community in America regardless of ethnicity, along with more than two million staff and volunteers, delivers the nutritious meals, friendly visits and safety checks that enable America’s seniors to live nourished lives with independence and dignity. In so doing, MOW helps keep thousands of seniors healthy and independent at home, where they want to be, while also saving billions in tax dollars by keeping them out of more costly healthcare alternatives. By providing funding, leadership, education, research and advocacy support, Meals on Wheels America empowers its local member programs to strengthen their communities, one senior at a time.
