For example, following the tsunami in South Asia in late 2004, the company provided $1.2 million in direct assistance and $7 million at wholesale value in donated medicines and other products. Less than a year later, the company responded to a new wave of natural disasters. For Hurricane Katrina, where entire communities were destroyed, Bristol-Myers Squibb donated $1.1 million in cash to the American Red Cross in addition to product donations totaling $2.9 million at wholesale through partner organizations. Additionally, Mead Johnson Nutritionals and ConvaTec donated nearly $1 million in products. After Hurricane Stan struck Central America, the company donated antibiotics through its partner, Project HOPE. And in Pakistan following a massive earthquake, the company worked closely through its partnerships with international relief agencies, donating more than $3 million at wholesale in medicines and nutritional products.

In 2007, Bristol-Myers Squibb was one of a number of companies who donated large quantities of emergency medicines and other medical supplies to aid community clinics and shelters that have sought to help the hundreds of thousands of residents in Southern California displaced by the massive wildfires that struck the region. Donations were provided by the company and others through Direct Relief International, a Santa Barbara-based nonprofit organization focused on improving the quality of life by bringing critically needed medicines and supplies to local healthcare providers worldwide. For more information, please visit www.DirectRelief.org.

Council on Foundation’s "Disaster Grantmaking: A Practical Guide for Foundations and Corporations"
www.cof.org/files/Documents/International_Programs/disasterguide.pdf

Business Roundtable
New disaster website
www.uptilt.com/c.html?rtr=on&s=ejl,nawf,1rdx,bnc9,64v2,d5ya,6spn

Partnership for Disaster Relief:
www.businessroundtable.org/pdf/20060327002Top10Myths.pdf

What every employee should know about contributing to disaster relief:
www.businessroundtable.org/pdf/20060327002EmployeeGuideDosandDonts.pdf