Mission
Our mission is to heal the hurting globally and locally by providing life-saving pharmaceuticals, vitamins and medical supplies to medical mission teams, clinics and hospitals; to build healthy communities by treating the poor and victims of endemic medical problems, outbreaks of disease or overwhelming disasters; to transform lives by actively demonstrating the love and compassion of Jesus Christ.
Notes from the nonprofit
In total, in Fiscal Year 2019 Blessings International shipped medicines with a total Human Treatment Value (HTV) of 119,538,680 including 4.5 million Curative Treatments and 115 million Treatment Days. These pharmaceuticals were delivered into 101 different nations. HTV is measured in two ways: 1. By the number of Curative Treatments (measured as one full dosage of a treatment , regardless of how many individual pills/tablets/injections required). Curative treatments include items such as antibiotics and anti-malarials for example). 2. By the number of Treatment Days. Treatment Days are the count of any pharmaceuticals that treat acute or chronic issues (including items such as analgesics, vitamins, anti-hypertensives, etc.).
Ruling year
1981
Chief Executive Officer
Dr. Barry Ewy PharmD, JD, MHA
Main address
PO Box 35292
Tulsa, OK 74153 USA
EIN
73-1130590
NTEE code
Health Support Services (E60)
Disaster Preparedness and Relief Services (M20)
Christian (X20)
IRS filing requirement
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Blessings International aims to solve the issue of accessibility to medicine for underprivileged men, women, and children both in the US and around the world. Oftentimes ailments are highly treatable and diseases extremely curable, but there is no access to quality medicine. Think about this: a physician travels to a remote village in Botswana, for some patients this is the first time they have ever seen a doctor. The doctor successfully diagnoses the patient, but he or she has no medicine to provide for treatment. Blessings International comes alongside healthcare providers equipping them with medicine that is safe, pure, and effective. This medicine can then be given into the hands of those who need it most. We estimate last year alone, we solved this problem for nearly 7.9 million around the world and in the US.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
International distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies
Blessings International provides pharmaceuticals, medical supplies, vitamins, and non-medical supplies to community development, long and short term missions, international clinics, animal health, and disaster relief. These are providing hope and healing to under-served and often remote and impoverished parts of the world.
US Distribution of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Supplies
Today, Blessings International has expanded its territory to work with churches, non-governmental organizations, universities, and medical institutions to provide pharmaceuticals and medical supplies to the refugee, uninsured, and underserved patient populations in the United States. In addition, they partner with the free and charity safety-net clinics and pregnancy resource centers and pharmacies across the United States.
Haiti Orphanage Medical Support (HOMS) Project
In early 2016 Blessings International launched a program in which a US trained nurse practitioner travels to multiple orphanages in Haiti to provide basic medical care and to track the children's progress after they receive basic medicines including vitamins and anti-malarials. Today, the care for these children continues. Nurses travel to the orphanages and monitor their health, take measurements and weight, distribute vitamins and de-worming medicines and treatments for those found be be malnourished or with everyday illnesses.
Maternal Health Project
Blessings International partners with established pregnancy clinics in the US to serve at risk patients, providing prenatal vitamins, pharmaceuticals and supplies for the term of pregnancy. Our goal is to improve the health of mothers who would not otherwise have access to prenatal care and to also impact the health of their newborn infants.
Emergency Disaster Relief
Blessings International works with teams that provide medical care to people both domestically and internationally affected by natural disasters and war. They make pharmaceuticals and medical supplies available for teams to bring into these situations, and also ship them to their locations.
Antimalaria & Deworming Project
Blessings International provides free antimalarial and antiparasitic medications to approved nonprofit medical organizations travelling to countries where these diseases are prevalent. Our goal is to reduce and eliminate these endemic, yet highly treatable diseases.
USA Fund
Blessings International helps charitable and mobile clinics across the United States by filling in the gap between patient assistance programs and donated medicines. It provides low-cost life-saving pharmaceuticals to reach the most vulnerable patient populations.
Where we work
Awards
Shining Light 2011
Ministry Watch
Affiliations & memberships
Evangelical Council of Financial Accountability - Member 1990
Christian Service Charities 1998
Community Health Charities 2018
External reviews
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Human Treatment Value for medicine distributed in the last fiscal year
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Related Program
International distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
HTV is measured by totaling the number of medicines shipped that are either Curative Treatments (one full dose of treatment) or Treatment Days (number of days medicine is used).
Number of new customers served in the last fiscal year
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Christians, Secular groups, Emergency responders
Related Program
International distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
New medical mission and general mission teams requesting medicine and supplies from Blessings International.
Number of countries medications have reached in the last fiscal year
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Indigenous peoples, Multiracial people, People with diseases and illnesses
Related Program
International distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical supplies
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
Measures the number of countries where the recipients of medicine live.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
With the support of our donors, Blessings International will continue to sow the seeds of opportunity and growth, thereby serving the medical needs of even greater numbers of people in the decades ahead! Continuing to serve as a resource of pharmaceuticals, vitamins and medical supplies, Blessings International strives to touch a record number of lives through our partnership with other medical mission teams and through our own benevolent and disaster relief projects. We aim to increase the amount of orphans served through developing our Haiti Orphanage Medical Support Project and reach more at risk mothers through expanding our Maternal Health project.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
Our strategy to touch a record number of lives is to expand our partnership with medical, dental and general mission teams by broadening our product line to include additional pharmaceuticals and non-prescription items, such as vitamins and medical/dental supplies.
In addition, we are actively seeking grants and donors to partner with us for our benevolent projects so we can reach more orphans and at risk maternal health patients.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
As we begin the 10th year in our owned facility that allows expansion of our warehousing, production and rebottling/repackaging efforts, we are well positioned to equip ourselves for growth in these areas.
Our core values have helped us grow, and even to thrive, despite the many obstacles we have faced over the years. Through refocusing and redirecting our efforts toward customer service, compliance and quality, we reached or surpassed most of our goals for 2019, including increasing Human Treatment Value of medicines we shipped by
more than a half-million treatments over the previous year!
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
In Fiscal Year 2019 Blessings International shipped medicines with a total HTV value of 119,538,680 including 4.5 million Curative Treatments and 115 million Treatment Days. These pharmaceuticals were delivered into 106 different nations. We want to increase that number and increase the HTV of shipments we are sending to medical clinics serving the economically disadvantaged in the USA. We seek to increase the number of orphans served through our Haiti Orphanage Medical Support project and the number of at risk mothers served through our Maternal Health project. To accomplish these goals we look to the support of our faithful donors and new donors who will join us in making a global impact.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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Who are the people you serve with your mission?
We serve people in two different ways: through providing a safe outlet for medical mission teams to purchase their pharmaceuticals/ vitamins/ medical supplies and through the offering of discounted items for US charitable clinics, pregnancy resource centers, and missions teams already traveling. Through both of these interactions, we are able to serve people on a huge national and international level. This can make feedback collection difficult, as most of our donors and customers are from all throughout the nation- some even internationally! However, despite the distance, we do our best to collect accurate feedback from all the people that we serve.
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How is your organization collecting feedback from the people you serve?
Electronic surveys (by email, tablet, etc.),
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals,
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What significant change resulted from feedback?
Not currently applicable
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With whom is the organization sharing feedback?
The people we serve, Our staff, Our board,
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How has asking for feedback from the people you serve changed your relationship?
We typically use order feedback forms, which have allowed us to very quickly see the highs and lows of our operations. It allows a truthful way for the organization to express their experience within the ordering process with us, while also simultaneously telling their story. Our forms are written in a way that encourages the organization to tell us about their trip- not just about their experience with us. It allows them to highlight what their own organization is accomplishing through their efforts. They can also choose to attach any photos from the trip they may have. In addition, we allow them as much spotlight as they prefer: Customers can choose to share their trip with us and then limit what Blessings International can publish, which allows them control of their story and publicity.
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive,
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We currently only collect feedback in one form.,
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Blessings International
Board of directorsas of 08/16/2022
Dr. Clay Powell
Physician
Term: 2021 - 2022
Chisoo Babo
Physician
Barry Ewy, PharmD, JD, MHA
Blessings International
Mike Smith, EA
Smith Accounting
Donald Treadway, MD, PhD
Physician, Professor
Karen Carmichael-Lorenz, Esq.
Tax Attorney
Geoff Jackson
Rev.
Rita Chamberlain
Hospital Pharmacist
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CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
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