From 2003 to 2006, the Avon Yellow Ribbon Pin was sold by Avon Sales Representatives and has raised $3 million to date to assist the families of military service personnel lost or wounded in Iraq and other armed conflict, as well as for a unique new state-of-the-art rehabilitation facility, the Center for the Intrepid at Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas.

Project Concern students with Dr. Henry Alderfer, Venkat, Richi and Malim.

In response to the December 2004 tsunami in Asia, the Avon Foundation immediately awarded $550,000 for urgent relief efforts and Avon launched the Heart of Asia pin in the US and other countries, bringing total support to over $1 million. In December 2006, the latest tsunami relief project funded by the Avon Foundation was launched: the first of eight women’s ‘Centers for Knowledge’ in villages still recovering from the tsunami. Known locally as Gyan Kendra, the Centers’ opening celebration was held in the hard-hit village of Thirumullaivasal on India’s southeastern coast. Click here to read more.

Following Hurricane Katrina, Avon and the Avon Foundation made cash donations of more than $800,000, provided 20 truckloads of products, and created the Heart of America Key Chain sold by Avon Sales Representatives to raise additional funds. Grants were made for immediate relief efforts as well as to the Foundation for the Mid South to create the Avon Foundation Housing Program Fund. The Avon Foundation also awarded grants to the National Domestic Violence Hotline, the Louisiana and Mississippi Coalitions Against Domestic Violence, to help domestic violence victims in the affected areas, and to the Winship Cancer Institute at Emory University in Atlanta to support breast cancer patients who were transferred to Winship from medical centers affected by the hurricane.

Click here for details on Katrina relief efforts and 2005 news release.