Medical Ambassadors International
Medical Ambassadors International
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About this organization
Mission
Medical Ambassadors International equips vulnerable communities through Christ-centered health and development
About
Medical Ambassadors International (MAI) made important progress globally in 2018 helping impoverished & marginalized communities achieve significant improvements in health, education, spiritual vitality, and economic development. Medical Ambassadors has a very distinctive program strategy, known as CHE (Community Health Evangelism), which empowers and equips local leaders to address both physical and spiritual needs in the communities that they belong to. This is called integrated Holistic development or Integral Mission. Community leaders receive training, consultation, and CHE resource materials from Medical Ambassadors through a training program called TOT (Training of Trainers), and then train others in their community.In addition, Medical Ambassadors has helped many other organizations use CHE through training and consultation. Others want to learn about CHE because of its practicality, flexibility, and proven success. In 2008, Medical Ambassadors initiated a new collaborative that now operates under separate non-profit registration to form a network of the many other organizations. This network has become a forum for sharing ideas, but is not owned by any of the collaborating organizations. Members from 700+ other NGOs and FBOs have now agreed to help each other implement CHE in their areas. Medical Ambassadors, along with these other organizations, have reached and impacted over 6,000 communities in well over 128 countries, impacting more than eight million people around the globe. The extensive CHE curriculum has been augmented with updated lessons on disease diagnosis and treatment, water collection and purification, agriculture, animal husbandry, marketing, micro-enterprise, savings groups, simple reproductive technology, ecology, literacy, marriage and family relationships, parenting skills, and local church leadership training. These lessons, over 8,000 of them, are available to all members of the CHE network who have partaken of the basic TOT training. As a result, at the local village or urban community level, well over 50,000 volunteer Community Health Evangelist/Educators have been trained by MAI directly and through the many partners that MAI has. Reports suggest that many times this number of people are active in Bible study and Bible story-telling/discussion groups. Practical application of what the Bible teaches is transforming the daily lives of thousands of families, and transforming whole communities around the world.90% of the impact of Medical Ambassadors is generated through the efforts of unpaid volunteers around the world, trained and encouraged by Medical Ambassadors paid staff. The contribution of volunteers globally is enormous, and this has only been possible due to the unique model MAI has of being able to mobilize, motivate and train volunteers, who in turn train generations of other volunteers, making Holistic disciples who make Holistic disciples.Many organizations pay staff to deliver similar services of community development. However, MAI teaches people to make improvements in their own communities, as volunteers. In essence, we "teach them to fish, rather than give them a fish." This allows their programs to be sustainable after we leave, and can be more easily copied by others. This is another reason that the program has replicated extensively. In turn, if MAI could include the value of these volunteer services in its calculation of overhead vs program expenses, its overhead percentage would decrease radically.
Interesting data from their 2020 990 filing
The filing documents outline the non-profit's mission as “Transforming lives, communities, and nations through the seamless combination of evangelism, discipleship, disease prevention, and community-owned development.”.
When outlining the tasks it performs, they were referred to as: “Transforming lives through evangelism, discipleship & disease prevention.”.
- The non-profit's reported state of operation is CA as per legal requirements.
- The filing reveals that the address of the non-profit in 2020 is PO Box 1302, Salida, CA, 95368.
- As of 2020, the non-profit has 28 employees reported on their 990 form.
- Is not a private foundation.
- Expenses are greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue is greater than $1,000,000.
- Revenue less expenses is -$347,940.
- The organization has 7 independent voting members.
- The organization was formed in 1980.
- The organization pays $1,729,390 in salary, compensation, and benefits to its employees.
- The organization pays $291,546 in fundraising expenses.
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