IRC

Responds to the world's worst humanitarian crises.

The International Rescue Committee was founded in 1933 at the suggestion of Albert Einstein, as the American branch of a European effort to help people fleeing Hitler's Germany. Over the following decades it responded to almost every major refugee crisis of the twentieth century — Hungarians in 1956, Cubans in the 1960s, Vietnamese and Cambodians in the 1970s, Bosnians in the 1990s, and Iraqis, Syrians and Ukrainians more recently.

IRC is a US 501(c)(3) headquartered in New York with a European affiliate registered in Germany. It runs programmes in more than forty crisis-affected countries and operates resettlement offices in more than twenty cities across the United States and Europe, supporting refugees admitted through national resettlement programmes.

The organisation's Airbel Impact Lab designs and tests new interventions in health, education and protection for humanitarian contexts, and IRC's research on cash transfers, early childhood development and severe acute malnutrition has helped shape sector-wide practice.