Our story
Recent years have been marked by unprecedented health challenges. Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic not only claimed millions of lives; it also disrupted vital systems, reversed progress against other diseases, and intensified existing inequities. Despite these setbacks, PATH remains undeterred in our mission to make good health care accessible to everyone.
Together, with help from you, your colleagues, and employees, we can move humanity forward—beyond the pandemic, and on toward health equity. Your support can help create fit-for-purpose solutions that increase access to essential health services; prevent, treat, and eliminate life-threatening diseases; and strengthen public health systems.
This document features innovations produced at PATH to address critical global health needs, from SoloShot syringes, to HEATmarker Vaccine Vial Monitors, Nifty feeding cups, Uniject injection systems, and safe water devices.
We describe our relevant capabilities, including our work to help countries strengthen medical oxygen supply and deploy testing, surveillance, and mitigation strategies.
This annual report includes our annual financial overview, a list of PATH’s funders and supporters, and our accomplishments in 2022.
PATH faces complex challenges, but our message is simple: We are pursuing healthy progress for all.
Why employee engagement matters
Employees today are looking for ways to create social impact through their careers. By supporting PATH’s unique purpose-driven initiatives, you have the opportunity to improve retention, strengthen your business, and improve public health around the world.
“90% of employees who work at companies with a strong sense of purpose say they’re more inspired, motivated, and loyal.”— Porter Novelli, 2020
PATH and the eight visionary tech companies in the Visualize No Malaria initiative pledge to stand with frontline health workers and the people of Zambia to eliminate malaria.
PATH and the Autodesk Foundation partnered on the PATH Global Design Challenge to complete the design of the RELI pump. We hoped to convene a diversity of ideas to inform design of the exterior of the RELI Delivery System, a rugged, low-cost, human-powered infusion pump that can deliver intravenous fluid, nutrition, and medicine to people in places with limited or no electricity.
Thanks to an innovative partnership between Microsoft employees and PATH, thousands of children in Laos no longer face the possibility of severe, lifelong brain injury or even death from Japanese encephalitis.
Employee Champions
Employee Champions are members of your team who are committed to advancing PATH’s mission. Together, we can recruit Champions to serve as leaders in organizing and activating the corporate campaign, and leverage their affinity for PATH to inspire support from their colleagues.
How to identify and engage employee champions
- Reach out with a companywide survey to identify those who are committed to advancing health equity.
- Share examples of PATH’s work with your employees to engender support.
- At times, PATH can also help identify and engage employee champions.
Activating employee champions
- Have employees reply to your outreach to share why they are committed to advancing health equity.
- Check with employee resource groups, a possible source for finding those willing to serve as employee champions.
- Confirm employees' willingness to support your company’s campaign for PATH.
Leveraging employee champions
- Champions are motivated. They are perfect for serving in campaign leadership roles.
- Champions can serve as internal spokespeople or potentially host PATH campaign events.
Workplace giving with PATH
Why give to PATH ?
- It’s easy. You can make a sustained commitment with a one-time effort.
- We’re among the best. Global Impact represents more than 50 of the most respected US-based international charities in workplace giving campaigns across the United States.
- You can have an impact. Small donations from many employees add up. Your employer may even match your donation.
Getting started
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- Announcement email
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Dear Colleagues,
At [Company], we believe in equity. It is simply unacceptable that half of all people—3.9 billion—lack access to essential health services; or that each day, 15,000 children die never having reached their fifth birthday. These numbers are no accident. They happen when the needs of people and communities are under resourced and deprioritized.
That’s why we are partnering with PATH: a global nonprofit that improves health for people and communities who experience disproportionate burdens of disease or who lack access to the providers, medicines, and devices that make healthy lives possible. Our support can help PATH’s expertise go further as they work to save lives and strengthen health systems with science and technology.
We are asking employees to join us and PATH as we help build healthier communities for everyone by donating at [website] or designating PATH through our workplace giving program [include company fundraising goal if applicable]. PATH’s work addresses health from nearly every angle and reaches more than 150 million people, on average, every year. We’ve also included a link to a short video about PATH’s mission and work around the globe.
Thank you for your support of PATH because when one of us is healthier, we are all healthier.
We look forward to sharing our progress as we join them on this journey.
Sincerely,
Company Leadership Name
- Campaign update email
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Dear Colleagues,
Recently you received a communication from our leadership, [name of CEO], announcing our collaboration with PATH. This work, with our support, will provide critical resources for PATH to move humanity forward through better health.
At the mid-point of our campaign, we’ve reached $[insert dollar amount] from donations across the company. Thank you for your contributions to help PATH improve public health, through the lens of health equity.
If you haven’t had the opportunity to donate, please consider making your contribution today at [website] or designating PATH through our workplace giving program [include company fundraising goal if applicable].
We look forward to sharing an update at the end of our campaign on the impact we’ve had together to help build healthier communities for everyone.
Sincerely,
Company Leadership Name - Results/ thank you email
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Dear Colleagues,
We have been so inspired with the participation of employees like you. Thank you for joining with us and PATH to improve access to better health. Together, we raised $[insert amount and include if goal was reached/exceeded, if applicable]!
Your [donations] are strengthening communities and providing a foundation for a more just world for all of us. Together, we are moving humanity forward. Thank you for helping to raise funds and awareness, and for making this a priority for [Company].
Sincerely,
Company Leadership Name
- Intranet blog or e-newsletter
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At [Company], we believe in equity and we work hard to demonstrate this belief in our work and our culture.
It is simply unacceptable that half of the world’s population—3.9 billion people—lacks access to essential health services. That each day, 15,000 children die never having reached their fifth birthday. These numbers are no accident. They happen when the needs of people and communities are under resourced and deprioritized.
That’s why we are partnering with PATH: a global nonprofit that improves health for people and communities who experience disproportionate burdens of disease or who lack access to the providers, medicines, and devices that keep people healthy. Our support can help remove roadblocks to lifesaving work and allow PATH’s expertise to go further as they strive to increase health system capacity and resilience around the world and improve lives with innovation in science and technology.
We are asking you to join us and PATH in building healthier communities for everyone. Here's how you can help:
- Donate at [website] or give by designating PATH through our workplace giving program [include company fundraising goal
if applicable]. - Share that you better health can move humanity forward by posting on social media [sample posts here].
When you give to PATH you are strengthening communities and providing a foundation for a more prosperous world for all of us.
[Company] is proud to partner with PATH and we are excited for each and every one of us to come together in support of PATH's uplifting mission.
Thank you for showing that together, we can move humanity forward.
- Donate at [website] or give by designating PATH through our workplace giving program [include company fundraising goal
PATH is innovating tools to prevent poliovirus outbreaks, and this includes wastewater surveillance.
PATH created the Equity in Programming Benchmarks to enable accountability and intentional action for health equity. Here, we track our goals and share our successes and failures. We invite you to join us in our learning journey. Together, we can transform the sector for better.
How you can help
Help us amplify the latest achievements at PATH by visiting our recent Articles and sharing with your networks.
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New from PATH
Cold chain investments vital for essential medicine delivery: While substantial investments have strengthened the cold chain for vaccines, the systems and capacity for heat-sensitive medicines have not seen such investment. Integrating essential medicines into the vaccine cold chain could offer opportunities to reduce stockouts of lifesaving medicines, improve health service delivery, and overcome service disruptions in lifesaving care.
What you can do:
- Read the article.
- Share the article with your networks. Draft your own post or quick share on Twitter, Facebook, or LinkedIn.
You can also follow PATH on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Instagram and share posts with your networks.
Need help? Please contact your PATH relationship manager.
The United States is among the largest funders of global health. As it welcomes new leadership, PATH’s policy team outlines objectives and key policy asks for systemic change.
Integrating heat-sensitive medicines within the vaccine cold chain can improve access to and delivery of lifesaving care.