Greater Good Charities

GREATER GOOD CHARITIES IS DEVOTED TO IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND WELL-BEING OF PEOPLE, PETS, AND THE PLANET.

We Amplify The Good.

Goal One: Greater Good Charities takes a communities approach, leveraging several programs across our people, pet, and planet verticals to maximize impact where we work.

Goal Two: Greater Good Charities launched Good Fix (targeted Spay/Neuter), Good Flights (pet transport), and Good Home (targeted pet foster recruitment) to further address needs in our served communities.

Goal Three: Greater Good Charities is expanding constituencies served by our GOODS program to include domestic violence victims, veterans, the unhoused, and food insecure - in the U.S., Europe, and the UK.

We invest in conferences, trainings, and technology to improve the effectiveness and capabilities of leaders within our organization.

Greater Good Charities partners with many organizations, public and private, in service of our mission. This includes foundations, corporate sponsors, other nonprofits, and operational partners. We also regularly present at conferences, including marketing and animal welfare conferences. We train organizations we support with programs like Girls' Voices, Cat Pawsitive, Good Home, and Rescue Rebuild. We participate in coalitions aimed at achieving shared goals. We have a dedicated marketing team that works to raise awareness and communicate our mission and impact through multiple digital and traditional channels.

The vast need caused by the war in Ukraine has evolved Greater Good Charities' field disaster programming to Europe. We have established a permanent presence on the ground with Polish staff to distribute critical relief supplies within Ukraine, provide operational support to partners, and help ensure aid reaches those who need it most. Initial cash and in-kind grants provided 9.5MM meals for people and 31.6MM meals for pets; additionally, we have directly distributed another 1.4+MM meals and essential supplies to families. This is an ongoing operation. Managed bees play a critical role in food production and face significant loss in Ukraine. In Spring 2023 we expanded our efforts to help through distribution of 20K lbs. bee pollen substitute, 97K lbs. sugar, 500+ queen bees and 500 hives to help rebuild destroyed colonies, and vaccines and cleaning products to help protect bees and queens from the lethal Varroa mite. Following catastrophic flooding after the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka Dam, our efforts focused on providing long-term access to clean drinking water in Kherson/Mykolaiv. Working alongside local partner BEAR, we’ve funded eleven self-sufficiency kits to allow monitoring and replenishment of water supplies and 32 1,000-liter water tanks that provide clean water to thousands in the region. We’ve focused on long-term sustainable solutions and have not distributed plastic water bottles. Furthering our commitment to long-term positive impact, we’ve deployed our veterinary surgical team to Ukraine to work with partners to humanely curb pet overpopulation, so far sterilizing 117 dogs and 550 cats.  Our Europe field team has since also been deployed to provide immediate assistance in other regions as needed, such as southern Türkiye following the February earthquake, providing 250K+ hot meals to thousands affected and rescue workers and collaborating with local animal welfare groups to provide pet food and care.