Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition named 2025 Holiday Impact Prize winner for its support to the Emergency Response Rooms
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New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has selected Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition as one of three non-profit organizations to showcase during this holiday giving season. As the world bears witness to unimaginable violence and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in Sudan, the Emergency Response Rooms continue to be a lifeline for their communities.
Click below to learn more about the Holiday Impact Prize.
Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms are delivering lifesaving assistance to their own communities more than two years into the conflict. Rooted in the Sudanese concept of nafeer, or collective action, this grassroots network of more than 26,000 local volunteers reaches the most dangerous areas with the greatest need, providing a lifeline where other aid agencies cannot.
The Emergency Response Rooms are providing hot meals in communal kitchens, running health centers and hospitals, fixing water wells and pumps, providing psychological and financial support to survivors of gender-based violence, evacuating civilians from areas of intense fighting, supporting out-of-school children with alternative education, helping displaced people settle into host communities, and meeting other urgent needs as they arise.
Learn more and see footage of the Emergency Response Rooms in action as Nicholas Kristof and Emergency Response Room representative Alsanosi Adam discuss the work here:
When you support the Emergency Response Rooms through Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition, $0.95 of every dollar goes directly to activities on the ground. And only $11 helps trusted community volunteers deliver holistic support to a person enduring war in Sudan.
The first $1 million raised for Mutual Aid Sudan Coalition via the Kristof Holiday Impact Prize campaign was matched, dollar for dollar, by José Andrés and the Longer Tables Fund. The next $1,275,000 was matched by three anonymous donors.
Additionally, Bloomberg Philanthropies will generously match all reader donations to the campaign through January 31, 2026.
Follow progress to meeting our matching goal!
Please show your support to these brave humanitarian responders this giving season by donating at the link below.
Donations by check or wire transfer are also possible.
Write a check payable to "Proximity2Humanity." Indicate “Holiday Giving Campaign” in the memo line.
Mail your check to: 415 N. 2nd Street, Albemarle, North Carolina 28001.
For donation by wire/bank transfer: Please reach out to info@proximity2humanity.org for instructions.
For donor-advised funds, please use EIN: 99-2897200.
