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RFP: Medical Teams Seeks Agency for Design Services & Project Implementation
Medical Teams is looking for a new agency to visually tell our brand story in our U.S. office environments. This design implementation will occur in our headquarters in Portland, OR and our office in Seattle, WA.
We are seeking an agency partner that has experience building a nonprofit or related...
Mobile Dental Van Supports Swedish COVID-19 Testing
Seattle, WA – (March 25, 2020) As drive-thru screening sites become a valuable resource in the fight against COVID-19, Medical Teams International has dispatched one of its many Mobile Dental Clinic vans to support testing at Swedish Hospital Issaquah, reducing the burden on the emergency room and...
Medical Teams International Donates Personal Protection Supplies
First Shipments Left Portland Headquarters Today
PORTLAND, Ore. (March 19, 2020) – As cases of COVID-19 continue to rapidly increase here and across the country, Medical Teams International (Medical Teams) today sorted and packed thousands of masks, gloves and other personal protection health...
Medical Teams President & CEO, Martha Holley Newsome, speaks at the Washington Governor’s Prayer Breakfast
On Friday, March 6, 2020, Martha Holley Newsome presented the keynote address at the 79th annual Governor's Prayer Breakfast in Olympia, Washington. Modeled after the National Prayer Breakfast held annually in Washington, D.C., the Governor's Prayer Breakfast was created for leaders to meet together...
RFP: Medical Teams Seeks New Agency for Strategic Communications & Digital Marketing Services
Medical Teams is looking for a new agency or agencies to support strategic communications and digital marketing.
We are seeking an agency partner that has experience growing a nonprofit organization's profile internationally through communications, shares our values, and has experience in...
Medical Teams International Receives $350,000 Grant to Launch Response to Venezuelan Crisis
Grant received from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will increase access to primary healthcare services for Venezuelan migrants in Colombia
PORTLAND, Ore. – Medical Teams International received a $350,000 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to increase access to...
Medical Teams International Reveals their Top 19 Photos of Global Social Impact for 2019
Tigard, OR – Medical Teams International is providing a window into the lives of people in crisis around the world. Working alongside well-renowned humanitarian photographers, the organization is giving a look into what life is like in refugee settlements and work sites around the world – from an...
Medical Teams International Commemorates 40 Years of ‘Love in Action’
Pacific NW-based nonprofit to host Open House at exhibit representing life-saving work around the world
Portland/Seattle –This month, Medical Teams International marks 40 years of delivering life-saving care to people in crisis with a commemorative event at the Real Life Exhibit in Portland on...
Medical Teams International Welcomes Dr. Dora Barilla to Board of Directors
PORTLAND, Ore. – (October 31, 2019) Medical Teams International announced that Dr. Dora Barilla has been appointed to the organization’s board of directors. Dr. Barilla joins the Medical Teams board with twenty years of experience in public health policy. She has held various positions in the health...
Medical Teams’ Healthy Women, Healthy World Motivates Portland Community to Take Action on Global Health Issues Affecting Women and Children
Philanthropic event raised $243,000 for global programs
Portland, OR —Medical Teams International’s female-led Healthy Women, Healthy World hosted their fourth annual fundraiser luncheon on Thursday, Oct. 24 at the Multnomah Athletic Club. The event is intended to inspire local Oregon...
Medical Teams’ Healthy Women, Healthy World Motivates Seattle Community to Take Action on Global Health Issues Affecting Women and Children
Philanthropic event raised $147,000 for global programs
Seattle, WA—Medical Teams International’s female-led Healthy Women, Healthy World hosted their third annual fundraiser luncheon on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at The Golf Club at Newcastle. The event is intended to inspire local Washingtonian...
Syria Crisis: Medical Teams International Begins Disaster Response Assessment to Serve Vulnerable People Fleeing to Northern Iraq
Tuesday, Oct. 22, Portland, OR — Earlier this month, Turkey announced the start of military operations in Northeastern Syria. Since then, airstrikes, heavy artillery and fighting on the ground have killed more than 146 civilians and more than 160,000 people have been forced to flee, including more...
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Martha Holley Newsome
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Roger Sandberg
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