Oxfam America
See also: Oxfam International
| Type | NGO |
|---|---|
| Website | oxfamamerica.org |
| Year founded | 1970 |
| Location |
Boston, MA
 United States of America
|
| Budget | USD 50M-100M |
| Functions | Advocacy, Fieldwork |
| Funding sources | Foundations or grants, Individual citizens |
| Tags | food security climate fair trade access to medicine . aid reform |
| Summary | In 1970, Oxfam America became an independent nonprofit organization and an Oxfam affiliate in response to the humanitarian crisis created by the fight for independence in Bangladesh. Oxfam America's headquarters are located in Boston, Massachusetts with a policy and campaigns office in Washington, D.C. and seven regional offices around the world. A registered 501(c)3 organization, Oxfam America campaigns for climate change adaptation, food security, aid reform, access to medicines, and fair trade. |
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Oxfam America · 25 January 2023 English
In 2013, Oxfam launched Women’s Economic Empowerment and 2 hours a day Care (WE-CARE) and developed research tools and methodologies, such as the Rapid Is the average reduction in time …
Oxfam America · 15 January 2023 English
We are living through an unprecedented moment of multiple crises. Tens of millions more people are facing hunger. Hundreds of millions more face impossible rises in the cost of basic …
Oxfam America · 20 December 2022 English
In the coming years, the project Saren says the lack of water in the lake, levels and forest, combined with more and more restrictive regulations on intends to reach more …
Oxfam America · 8 December 2022 French
En réinventant les structures, les normes et les valeurs issues du radicalement des concepts tels que le colonialisme occidental, car elles continuent de « développement », en s’appuyant sur des …
Oxfam America · 18 November 2022 Spanish
antirracistas pueden reforzar las instituciones La filosofía y la ética del buen vivir se han económicas o estatales que reproducen la institucionalizado políticamente en las constituciones colonialidadxvii hasta la falta …
Oxfam America · 1 November 2022 English
METHODOLOGY FOR DATA COLLECTION Oxfam worked with a data provider, Exerica, to identify: • The equity stakes in companies that the richest 220 individuals in the world are invested in …
Oxfam America · 28 October 2022 English
The world’s richest people emit huge and unsustainable amounts of carbon and, unlike ordinary people, 50% to 70% of their emissions result from their investments. New analysis of the investments …
Oxfam America · 28 October 2022 English
The world’s richest people emit huge and unsustainable amounts of carbon and, unlike ordinary people, 50% to 70% of their emissions result from their investments. New analysis of the investments …
Oxfam America · 17 October 2022 English
In 2009, high-income countries promised to provide $100bn a year in climate finance to low- and middle-income countries by 2020. They have failed to keep this promise. Their official reports …
Oxfam America · 13 October 2022 English
This note explains the methodology underpinning the calculations in the briefing note Climate Finance Short-changed: The real value of the $100 billion commitment in 2019–20.