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IFC has collaborated with Uber on efforts to boost opportunities for women in emerging markets, including convening private-sector leaders around gender issues and analyzing data to better understand how ridesharing can increase women’s work opportunities and mobility.
Uber provides the IRC—a global humanitarian organization helping people who are forced to flee from conflict and crises—with safe and reliable transportation through free rides for both IRC staff and the vulnerable communities they serve. Rides with Uber are a vital resource for refugees and displaced people who are rebuilding their lives.
LISC, Uber, PayPal Giving Fund, and Walgreens have joined forces to create the Vaccine Access Fund, an $11 million initiative that addresses health inequities and facilitates rides to vaccination sites for people who can’t get there on their own. LISC will manage the Vaccine Access Fund by working, as it has for 40 years, with community-based nonprofits and other groups to set up and support the free rides program.
Uber is collaborating with Partners In Health to give rides to underserved communities that need COVID-19 vaccinations and making sure transportation is not a barrier to vaccine access.
Uber has joined UNESCO’s Global Education Coalition to ensure that teachers and families in need can receive free rides while schools reopen. As part of the collaboration, Uber has also helped facilitate delivery of over 400,000 free meals and food parcels to families in Colombia, Costa Rica, Kenya, Mexico, Panama, and the UK.
Uber worked with World Central Kitchen to enable delivery of 300,000 fresh meals in Washington, DC; Bronx, NY; and Newark, NJ, to at-risk communities that were homebound as a result of the pandemic.
These are just some of the organizations we’ve collaborated with across the world:
Asia-Pacific
- CHILDLINE India Foundation (India)
- HelpAge India (India)
- National Association for the Blind (India)
- Robin Hood Army (India)
- WESNET (Australia)
Canada
Europe, Middle East, and Africa
- African Management Institute (Kenya and South Africa)
- Age UK (UK)
- Be Inclusive Hospitality (UK)
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (South Africa)
- Collectif Féministe Contre le Viol (France)
- Enterprise Nation (UK)
- Force Femmes (France)
- HandsAway (France)
- Hestia (UK)
- Lularides (South Africa)
- NHS (UK)
- NISAA (South Africa)
- Prison Reform Trust (UK)
- SOS Homophobie (France)
- Stop Harcèlement de Rue (France)
- WERO (France)
Latin America
- Agência Patrícia Galvão (Brazil)
- Endeavor (Mexico)
- Fondo Semillas (Mexico)
- Frente Nacional Antirracista (Brazil)
- Instituto Avon (Brazil)
- Promundo (Brazil)
- Sebrae (Brazil)
United States
- &Access
- ASU
- Center for Policing Equity
- EatOkra
- Harlem Park to Park
- League of United Latin American Citizens
- Morehouse School of Medicine
- National Action Network
- National Network to End Domestic Violence
- National Urban League
- The Open University
- Operation Hope
- Partners In Health
- PayPal
- RAINN
- RALIANCE
- Restaurant Employee Relief Fund
- Rise
- Sandlot Southeast
- Suite Nation
- Ujima
- Unidos
- Valinc PR
- Walgreens
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