ShelterBox provides emergency shelter and other essential items to families who have lost their homes to disasters. With operational headquarters in Cornwall, the charity also has 13 affiliate organizations worldwide, with the USA affiliate being located in Santa Barbara, CA. The charity has been Rotary International’s project partner in disaster relief since 2012.
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Nearly 100 volunteers in Greensboro, NC are mobilizing on November 7 to pack essential survival supplies including cookstoves, sleeping bags, and solar lights for hurricane victims across 10 North Carolina counties. The joint effort between Rotary and ShelterBox USA aims to provide immediate relief to communities facing harsh conditions and widespread damage.
Santa Barbara – ShelterBox response team workers have delivered aid to displaced people on the Grenada islands of Carriacou and Petite Martinique.
ShelterBox USA is providing a $100,000 match grant to assist communities in the Carolinas, Georgia, and Florida impacted by Hurricanes Helene and Milton.
ShelterBox is responding to the humanitarian crisis in Sudan by sending a team to neighboring Chad.
Three generations of women from a Wisconsin family will hike Yosemite for ShelterBox USA.
Alaska resident, Jane Lanford, is running nearly 70 miles over the infamous American Summit to raise awareness and funds for ShelterBox.
Top 40 Billboard Recording Artist becomes Artist Ambassador of ShelterBox USA
We put families first, but we do not seek to hold to one definition of what a family is
On February 14th, ShelterBox celebrated 20 years of providing life-saving shelter to families displaced by disaster by recognizing the volunteers who have made it possible.
As a global disaster relief organization rooted in the humanitarian principles of humanity, neutrality, and impartiality, we believe black lives matter and all should be treated equally and humanely.
Working in partnerships is in our DNA. We have always focused on building lasting relationships and powerful partnerships so we can support the people who need us in a way that is right for them.
ShelterBox has launched an urgent Coronavirus Appeal to provide emergency shelter to vulnerable families in places like Syria to help communities protect themselves from the disease.
ShelterBox USA has joined over 50 international humanitarian, peacebuilding, development, and human rights organizations in endorsing the H.R 1580 and S. 727, the Global Fragility Act of 2019.
Bert Woodrum’s mission to climb 58 mountain peaks for ShelterBox USA
At ShelterBox, we’re transforming despair into hope by providing displaced families with emergency shelter and tools enabling them to rebuild their homes and transform their lives after disaster.
As a member of ShelterBox’s Give a Home program, every time you sell a home, you’ll make a donation to ShelterBox that will provide emergency shelter and life-saving supplies to families who have lost their homes and belongings to disaster or conflict.
It is a failure on all sides to allow Syria to suffer on this scale. The great shame of the last decade is now entering a new level of human suffering. Governments worldwide must be held to account, to end the Syrian conflict now. This is the biggest displacement since the Second World War.
“It’s not over until it’s over everywhere.”
ShelterBox USA raised more than $150,000 at their third annual event, “An Evening to Experience ShelterBox”
LuminAID and ShelterBox partnership gives light and hope to people displaced around the world
The evening was an immersive experience allowing attendees to directly engage with the life-saving work of our organization.
The exhibition showcased the global efforts of designers seeking to answer the questions of they might transform lives throughout the world, act as a catalyst for change, expand access, and include those who have been excluded.
For the second year in a row, ShelterBox USA earned a 4-star rating for demonstrating strong financial health and commitment to accountability and transparency.
ShelterBox USA was one of 20 nonprofits selected to exhibit at the 2018 Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival.
To provide emergency shelter and supplies to people who have lost their homes after disaster or fled because of civil conflict, Erik Elsea of Cape Coral, Fla. solo paddled the entire length of the Mississippi River this summer to raise funds for ShelterBox USA.
To support the unmet shelter and housing needs of people affected by Hurricane Harvey, which damaged more than 200,000 homes in Texas last August, disaster relief nonprofit ShelterBox USA provided a $250,000 grant to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund (HHRF)
Disaster relief agency ShelterBox has set up a new operations base in the Philippines to improve ability to respond to regional storms
A reception at Clarence House in London on Feb. 8 hosted by HRH The Duchess of Cornwall for ShelterBox, an international disaster relief charity of which Her Royal Highness became President in 2007.
How Syria’s First Oscar Contender Eluded the Government
SB USA President Kerri Murray was part of the Opening Bell Ceremony on Nov. 28, 2017 at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York City’s Times Square as part of #GivingTuesday, an annual global day of giving which began in 2012 as a response to the consumerism of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
ShelterBox USA raised more than $225,000 at their second annual event, “An Evening to Experience ShelterBox,” held Sept. 20, 2018
At a shelter in Crosby, Texas, Shelter Box distributed tents for displaced families, half of whose homes washed away in the hurricane. Many of these vulnerable families have young children and are living in a shelter set up at the American Legion Club.
International disaster relief nonprofit ShelterBox USA called upon by FEMA to explore a partnership based in disaster preparedness
A Visit to ShelterBox UK headquarters from Her Royal Highness, The Duchess of Cornwall
I support ShelterBox and the crucial work they do all over the world helping families who have lost everything.
Shelter and togetherness are stepping stones to recovery. If you are able, please give what you can.
ShelterBox Hall of Fame recognizes Ambassadors who have raised more than $100,000 to support ShelterBox efforts globally.
Survivorman, Les Stroud, has been a ShelterBox Celebrity Ambassador since February 2013, raising awareness of ShelterBox’s effort to assist families affected by conflict and natural disaster around the world.
More than 250 people attended the event, hosted at the home of supporter John McGovern. The event committee included singer songwriter Kenny Loggins, Martin + Kerrilee Gore, Joel Weiss, Roger Bower, Bernadette Bagley, Erin Spence, and Max Drucker + Jen Smithwick.
We cannot fail these families.’ – Emmy and Golden Globe winning actor Damian Lewis supports ShelterBox’s preparations for Mosul
Shark Tank viewers received a LuminAID update after the inflatable solar light invention made its debut on the investment reality show in 2015.
The segment showed how lights are used on the front lines of disaster situations, with the founders traveling with ShelterBox to Malawi, where the 2015 flooding ravaged the country and displaced hundreds of thousands.
