When disasters strike, the right goods at the right time can change everything.

A product donation, also known as a gift-in-kind (GIK), is a contribution of physical goods — anything from hygiene kits to apparel, medical supplies to educational materials, shelf-stable food, and more. For businesses, these GIK donations can include excess or returned merchandise, repackaged inventory, discontinued stock keeping units (SKUs), or imported goods disrupted by tariffs.

Each month, World Vision receives and processes over 300 full truckloads of donated goods —well over 100,000 pallets each year. With every shipment, we provide the scale and infrastructure companies rely on — and the stewardship and accountability vulnerable communities deserve.

In the U.S., our work is anchored by a network of over 3,000 trusted churches, schools, and nonprofit partners; many of which have deep, long-lasting ties in their communities. These partners help us identify needs, deliver donations with dignity, and ensure donations support — not disrupt — local efforts.

The role of product donations in crisis and recovery
From the first days of a disaster to the long road of rebuilding, product donations help meet urgent needs and restore stability for families.

In emergencies, pre-positioned goods are often the fastest way to respond and meet the needs of a crisis, and we have strategically located stocked warehouses around the globe. When disasters hit in the U.S. or around the world, World Vision is able to respond within 24 to 72 hours with essential goods like hygiene kits, emergency food, and essential household items. In the weeks that follow, as families rebuild their lives, donated school supplies, clothing, toys, and building materials can help restore a sense of normalcy.

Beyond immediate disaster relief, product donations help families meet needs without financial strain. When essential needs are met and families begin to rebuild their lives, donated products like building supplies enable families to use their resources toward things like education or healthcare.

Stewardship you can see through tracking — from loading dock to local distribution
Every donated item that enters World Vision’s network is registered, logged, and tracked. We steward every donation with full transparency and traceability. Our logistics and warehouse management system allows us to carefully monitor:

• Intake: Register products, barcode (when needed), and log, with full documentation for taxes, compliance, and tracking.
• Vetting: Match each item with high-priority programs or vetted partners. Nothing moves until its use aligns with our ethical and strategic standards.
• Storage & logistics: Goods are stored in secure facilities and tracked by pallet, including racking location and distribution date. Shipments are dispatched via controlled systems.
• Deployment: Partners confirm receipt, often with photographic or GPS-verified delivery. This end-to-end system ensures transparency, reduces loss, and protects donor trust.

World Vision’s superior logistics provides donors with transparency, protects against misuse, and enables rapid response in a rare case of a product recall, all while maintaining a greater than 99.5% accuracy rate.

Recall-ready and risk-aware
If a donated product is recalled due to a safety or quality concerns, World Vision acts fast. Our logistics team works with the donor to identify and locate affected inventory, notify partners, and either retrieve or destroy items based on donor and regulatory guidance.

Our recall preparedness safeguards communities — and protects your brand from reputational and regulatory risk.

Brand protection and legal peace of mind
World Vision understands what’s at stake when your brand is associated with a donated item. That’s why every GIK is governed by a legal agreement that includes donor indemnification — protecting your company from liability once goods leave your care.

Under this agreement:

• You are not legally liable if a product is later implicated in a claim or issue.
• World Vision assumes full responsibility for how donated goods are handled, stored, distributed, and used.

These protections shield your company from potential lawsuits, reputational harm, or regulatory complications, and they are designed to align with compliance and risk mitigation.

When you give through World Vision, you’re not just handing off inventory. You’re partnering with an organization that values integrity, stewardship, and long-term trust — just like you.

Zero tolerance for resale
World Vision maintains a strict “do not sell” policy for all donated goods. We prohibit resale, barter, or unauthorized distribution — with a zero-tolerance standard communicated clearly to all implementing partners.

To enforce this, we conduct:

• Mandatory partner orientations on donation use and brand protection
• Monthly reporting with examples of how goods are used
• Regular site visits to ensure compliance

By upholding these standards, we protect your brand and honor the intent behind your donation by ensuring that your generosity leads to dignity, not distortion.

No dumping. No market disruption. No dependency.
Even well-intentioned donations can cause harm without careful thought. It’s a lesson the global aid sector has learned the hard way — donated clothing flooding informal markets, irrelevant goods piling up in warehouses, and aid shipments overwhelming already fragile systems.

World Vision avoids these pitfalls by putting community needs first. We don’t push product into programs. We pull only what is requested, based on:

• Local market assessments
• Ongoing partner feedback
• Cultural, seasonal, and contextual fit

That’s why we don’t just send what we receive. We receive what we know we can distribute responsibly.

Donations as a strategic asset
Your surplus products aren’t waste. They’re assets with purpose — if handled correctly. With World Vision, your product is handled with the same level of care, compliance, and communication you expect in your own supply chain. The reality is, when goods are handled irresponsibly, risks do exist — from reputational fallout and legal exposure to unintended harm in vulnerable communities. We mitigate those risks with:

• Pre-vetted distribution partners
• Usage reports and delivery evidence
• Brand protection as if your name were our own

With over 75 years of humanitarian experience and a presence in nearly 100 countries, World Vision has a proven infrastructure to move products quickly, safely, and strategically.

When you donate through World Vision, you’re investing in the dignity, recovery, and resilience of vulnerable communities — without compromising your operational integrity or brand reputation. It’s impact you can trust with safeguards you can count on.

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World Vision’s health and nutrition work around the world focuses on providing access to quality healthcare in the most impoverished communities. Delivering innovative, effective, and community-driven health programs is one of our core competencies.

Our work in the health sector is strengthened by our holistic community development model, which tackles the root causes of poverty by addressing its multiple causes — lack of clean water, sanitation, and hygiene; food and agriculture; education and literacy; health and nutrition; and economic development — in partnership with the communities in which we work.

Donated medical products are a vital part of World Vision’s health strategy. World Vision’s best-in-class supply chain capabilities enable us to take Cardinal Health product “the last mile” and deliver these desperately-needed items into the hands of health workers in the most remote regions on earth.

Health clinics and rural health posts may have little to no access to running water, electricity, or paved roads — but because of donors who care, they have access to quality medical products, ensuring that they can provide for their communities.

Alongside World Vision and other donor companies, Cardinal Health is improving health and changing the lives of children and families in these “last mile” communities.

Whenever possible, donations are integrated into existing health services, avoiding duplication and inefficiencies and improving local capacity, impact, and sustainability.

In more developed settings, World Vision provides appropriate Cardinal Health products that are used in district hospitals and larger referral hospitals. This makes it possible for the hospitals to continue serving a large volume of patients with limited resources from local governments or other national sources.

In many instances, donations from Cardinal Health have enabled hospitals to stay open when they otherwise would have closed their doors.

Cardinal Health product donations play a critical role in achieving World Vision’s goal of helping all children enjoy good health.

World Vision addresses community health in an integrated manner, using components of our holistic model as sustainable preventative strategies together with treatment for ill health.

By coming alongside World Vision to address the health needs in communities, Cardinal Health plays an integral role in sustainable development, giving children and families the opportunity to reach their full potential.

Do you have top-quality product that can help change the lives of children in need? Consider partnering with World Vision!

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“It is so powerful to see the impact our products can have in spreading hope—whether it’s to survivors of a natural disaster, refugees, or children in poverty.”
—Cindy Monroe, Founder and CEO of Thirty-One Gifts.

For the past six years, Thirty-One Gives (the charitable arm of Thirty-One Gifts) has partnered with World Vision on Giving Tuesday to spread generosity during the holiday season.

The past year has highlighted the power of partnership with Thirty-One Gifts—through its Thirty-One Gives program—to bring vital resources to communities in need. Moved by the mounting needs of vulnerable people impacted by the COVID-19 crisis, Thirty-One Gifts partnered with World Vision again on May 5 for Giving Tuesday Now.

“Thirty-One Gifts has partnered with World Vision in the past for other important causes, so it was only natural to give back during this unprecedented time, by providing 1,000 family emergency kits to families in the U.S.,” says Cindy Monroe, Founder and CEO of Thirty-One Gifts.

Since 2014, products given by Thirty-One Gifts and monetary donations by Thirty-One Gives have totaled more than $43 million. “It is so powerful to see the impact our products can have in spreading hope—whether it’s to survivors of a natural disaster, refugees, or children in poverty,” says Cindy. “It’s our pleasure to give back to families in need everywhere.”

Thirty-One Gives and World Vision have a shared common goal of empowering girls, women, and families. “We have partnered in many ways,” says Cindy, “including building Hope Kits for women and families impacted by domestic violence or natural disasters; and by donating a variety of products such as towels, totes, and thermal sets that assist new moms, carry crucial medical supplies, and transport books to help keep children in school.”

Working with World Vision, Thirty-One Gives has helped children reach their full potential by tackling the causes of poverty and injustice in a wide variety of ways:

• Thirty-One Gives has partnered with World Vision on Giving Tuesday for the past six years to spread generosity during the holiday season.
• Since 2012, Thirty-One Gives has donated more than $100 million in products and cash to charitable organizations that share the Gives mission.
• During the coronavirus pandemic, Thirty-One Gives has provided 1,000 Family Emergency Kits to families in the U.S.

It’s easy to join companies like Thirty-One Gifts to help more people through your business. Simply partner with World Vision today!

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Spin’s Commitment to Making a Positive Difference

In many countries, young girls and boys have to walk for hours to reach the nearest school. Unfortunately, the children often drop out as parents feel their time would be better spent working and supplementing the family’s income. Spin, which operates a dockless scooter-sharing service throughout the Unites States, is seeking to change all that with their generous gift-in-kind donation of bikes.

Originally, Spin launched its stationless mobility program in Seattle with dockless bicycle sharing. However, they soon shifted their focus to scooter-sharing. With a fleet of bicycles about to be retired, they soon saw the benefits of partnering with World Vision to make an impact around the world.

“At Spin, we are always grateful for opportunities to collaborate with great partners,” says Euwyn Poon, President and Co-founder of Spin. “We are committed to making a positive difference in cities in the U.S. and around the world. We believe the freedom to move creates new opportunities.”

For vulnerable children living in remote villages, a bicycle can definitely create new opportunities and change their future. A much quicker mode of transportation, bicycles enable children to spend far less time traveling to and from school—and ensure they get home in time to help their families with work.

“As a company, we are making an impact in America by creating another viable mode of transportation and a solution for first-and-last mile trips,” states Poon. “And now, partnering with World Vision enables us to make a difference on an international scale by sending bikes to underprivileged kids overseas.”

Gift-in-kind donations can alter the course of a child’s life and provide the opportunity for a brighter future. And the process is quite simple. “The World Vision staff have been incredibly helpful, understanding, and efficient,” notes Poon. “They are a great partner and made the donation process seamless. They coordinated all the pickups and shipments of the bicycles and made it really easy for us to be part of the work that they do.”

The end result has far exceeded Spin’s expectations. “Together, we were able to provide 64 pallets of bikes across the U.S. and around the world—and a steady means of transportation to communities in need. This is the only time we’ve partnered with World Vision, but we hope to have more opportunities to collaborate in the future.”

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