Overdose Crisis Response Fund

Overdose Crisis Response Fund (OCRF) fast facts: MISSION: To save as many lives as possible, as quickly as possible, from overdose VISION: To be the aggregator of private funding directed towards US overdose response. We seek to: • grow overdose response funding from private sources (donors, family foundations, etc.), • aggregate these funds, so funders can combine resources to achieve impact at the largest possible scale, • and then direct this funding to its evidence-based highest-and-best use. CURRENT IMPACT: OCRF has funded directly and incrementally life-saving overdose prevention work in 17 states to date. This work includes. Distribution of doses of naloxone to: • Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa (Wisconsin) • Quad Cities region of Iowa & Illinois (Davenport, IA; Moline, IL) • Central Connecticut (incl. Hartford, New Haven) • Indiana (all Southern counties) • Chillicothe, OH • New Orleans, LA • Detroit, MI • Chattanooga, TN • Huntsville, AL • Oklahoma (statewide) Early funder of NEXT Distro, a nationwide mail-order service for harm reduction supplies, including naloxone Funded purchase and launch of mobile harm reduction units in New Orleans and Greenville, SC. Funded personal financial relief for founders of overdose prevention programs in Missouri, Georgia, and Florida who-in the absence of grant funding from Fed/state/county public health agencies-had had to self-fund their organizations, at the cost of their own financial hardship. STRUCTURE: OCRF is an independent 501c3 not-for-profit organization FUNDERS: Open Society Foundations, Yagan Family Foundation, Sandgaard Foundation, Kaiser Family Foundation, Raymond Family Foundation, The Adam and Heather Hopkins Fund, Jun Family Charitable Fund, Addiction Policy Forum, a major anonymous donor, and many smaller individual donors. TO DONATE: