Corporate partnerships

There are essential costs for any organization and a small percentage of the money we raise – just three percent – is used for salaries and running costs in Canada.

Another 12 percent is reinvested in fundraising to keep the money coming in for our overseas work (and for every dollar spent we receive five dollars back). The rest pays for healthcare.

When an emergency breaks – such as an earthquake, an epidemic or a conflict – MSF can respond immediately. This is because we encourage donors to give unrestricted funds, which means we can spend them where the need is greatest.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, MSF has a significant emergency fund. This means there is no delay in mobilizing, no wait for government funds to be released and no lag as donation appeals are launched; we can act immediately and then replenish this fund with new donations.

Once the money reaches the medical programs it is carefully managed by the project teams. It is subject to a rigorous accounting system, with every penny logged and all the information flowing back to the headquarters and our donors – transparency and accountability are essential.

The way we raise and spend money upholds our core principles – independence, neutrality and impartiality. We very rarely take money from governments; the vast majority of our donations come from private donors, like you.

This means they come with no strings attached and allow us to provide medical care where the need is greatest. It is you, our donors, who fuel our work. Thank you.

Meet your business goals through the development of a strategy to support the operational needs of MSF in providing healthcare to people facing crises.

Raising awareness and funds for MSF’s humanitarian work will allow you to profile your contribution to helping us provide emergency medical care around the world.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out – our team is here to help. Thank you for helping MSF provide critically needed medical care to people facing conflict, disaster, outbreaks of disease or lack of access to healthcare in more than 70 countries.

Working together to raise awareness and funds for MSF’s lifesaving medical work can help strengthen team members’ sense of corporate pride and commitment. This can be done through workplace giving, matching gifts, employee fundraising events and holiday giving campaigns.

Connecting with MSF’s work

Volunteer Engagement & Team Building – Host a Missing Maps Mapathon: Doctors Without Borders/ Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) use maps every day to get to patients, to assess the needs of crisis-hit communities, to track disease spread, and to respond to local events. The people most affected by crises are often those that are hardest to reach. That’s why we joined the Missing Maps initiative, a program which addresses the need humanitarian organizations have for maps of the areas we work in.

We are recruiting volunteers to map parts of the world most vulnerable to humanitarian crises: places that are vulnerable to natural disasters, disease outbreaks, epidemics, or conflict. MSF Canada offers companies the opportunity to host a Mapathon, by supporting the Missing Maps with your time, you can directly contribute to MSF’s humanitarian medical activities.

Request an MSF speaker: If you’d like to raise awareness about MSF’s work in your company, we can arrange for a member of our team to come and speak about their experiences working in MSF’s projects around the world.