Wanting Again on 2025 - Lives Modified and Lives Remembered

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As 2025 involves an finish, we wished to have a look again over the 12 months and share how your assist has modified lives.

GreaterGood CEO and Co-founder, Tim Kunin, shares among the highlights he has personally witnessed from this 12 months and our targets for subsequent 12 months.

We wish to thanks from the underside of our hearts to your continued assist that’s serving to folks and pets close to and much. Collectively, we CAN change the world.

Picture: GreaterGood (Tim Kunin with rescued Ukrainian canine)

As we shut 2025, I discover myself reflecting on what we’ve achieved collectively and the affect of your donations and procuring that I’ve been in a position to witness firsthand. This 12 months, I traveled to among the communities your assist reaches most instantly, listening to tales from artisans, refugees, rescue staff, and local weather activists, and I’ve witnessed how dignity, alternative, and long-term partnership can actually change lives.

Picture: United for Animals

A lot of our charitable affect, generated by your procuring, clicks, and direct donations, funded assist for crucial packages throughout the USA. This work with Better Good Charities contains catastrophe aid, assist for veterans and others experiencing homelessness, in addition to meals, transport, and medical take care of underfunded animal rescues that always lack constant sources.

Picture: Animal Humane New Mexico

This 12 months additionally marked the start of a brand new partnership with the Ukraine Conflict Animal Rescue Fund (UWARF), constructed on the identical mannequin of long-term affect. With UWARF, I attended a worldwide rabies convention the place I noticed collaboration to handle pressing public well being and animal welfare wants. Whereas there, Krystina Drahomaretska of Underneath the Solar shelter, a UWARF-supported group, was acknowledged with a global award for her management in rabies elimination, reflecting her extraordinary heroism and dedication to animals.

Picture: GreaterGood

A month later, whereas in Ukraine with Krystina, I visited her shelter in Podilsk. Assembly her staff, strolling the grounds, and witnessing the care given to lots of of animals deserted and injured by battle made our partnership tangible in a profound means. I accompanied Krystina to ship 20 animals rescued from the frontlines to loving new houses. It underscored the pressing wants dealing with each pets and other people in Ukraine, which we’re dedicated to assisting in 2026 and past.

This 12 months I additionally visited the Mae Tao Clinic on the Thai/Myanmar border the place we’ve collectively funded a birthing clinic since 2010 and made my first go to to an artisan group of 350 girls refugees fleeing gender-based violence in northwest Kenya. Our purchases have actually saved the lives of each moms and their kids. We offer alternatives to girls in very distant areas, enabling them to pay faculty charges for his or her kids and scale back intergenerational poverty.

Picture: GreaterGood

I’m lucky to fulfill so many people who find themselves making a long-lasting distinction of their communities throughout Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Sadly, final week we misplaced Dan Positive, founding father of UWARF and producer of Conflict Tails, to pancreatic most cancers. Dan lived with objective, humility, humor, and deep compassion. We mourn Dan however are impressed by his ardour to assist animals. I imagine the necessity to assist folks, pets, and the planet will enhance in 2026. We are dedicated to maximizing our affect and exceeding our long-term purpose of giving over $100 million to charitable causes. The generosity, resolve, and care proven by our supporters is wonderful. None of that is attainable with out you. It’s an honor to do that collectively.