Double the Impact in the Fight Against COVID-19

As a company, we have been closely monitoring the serious outbreak of COVID-19.  BI employees have a longstanding commitment to patients and communities in need, and asked the BI Cares Foundation how they might be able to help.

In the United States, through the BI Cares Matching Gifts Program, employees are able to have their donations to eligible nonprofits matched dollar for dollar, up to $250 per person, per year.

BI Cares has set up a special section on its Matching Gifts website to facilitate employee donations to several of its trusted community partners. Employees can choose from three relief funds that were established to provide ongoing COVID-19 support:

• Direct Relief: is expanding coronavirus response through intensified analysis, increased coordination, and expanded provision of medical essentials. Direct Relief is providing assistance in the form of personal protective equipment, or PPE, for health workers and building an ICU medication model and mobilizing private resources to build a stockpile to assist with anticipated spike in ICU patients.  In addition, they are boosting support to safety-net facilities to address existing chronic gaps that are likely to grow
• Americares: response is centered around three key pillars: 1) Providing personal protective equipment (PPE), medicines and supplies for front line health workers; 2) Providing COVID-19 training and technical assistance for health providers on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC), Mental Health and Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), and Outbreak Planning; and 3) Maintaining continuity of care for beneficiaries of Americares health programs, including essential primary care services
• Centers for Disease Control Foundation (CDC Foundation): is helping communities prevent, detect and respond to COVID-19 by increasing laboratory capacity, deploying emergency staffing with the skills required to meet the needs on the front lines, developing health education and awareness campaigns, boosting clinical and technology tools to improve health outcomes and building capacity and infrastructure for global response efforts and other immediate needs