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Three organizations, Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), Gleaners, and E&J’s Kitchen, serve as sponsors for the Caldor Fire relief effort. “Today, we were able to do everything from children and baby needs, clothing, shoes, hygiene, household necessities,” Elizabeth Jernberg, owner of E&J’s Kitchen, told NTD News. “The GEM and Be Strong department has family necessity boxes, which is also [an accumulation] of Liquid IV, sanitizers, socks, towels, and little blankets.”

After this weekend’s incredibly successful Hurricane Ida Labor Day relief drive, Sam Zavary, President & CEO of Exclusive Furniture and the Exclusive Furniture family will virtually present a $10K check to Michael Capponi President of Global Empowerment Mission and send off all the donations left at all eight Exclusive Furniture locations.

Firmly established thanks to partnerships with Global Empowerment Mission and the United Nations as well as a retail presence in Walmart, Home Depot, Camping World, REI and Amazon, GoSun is an investment opportunity for everyone to think seriously about.

Frankel, who rose to prominence on Bravo's Real Housewives of New York City as she built her Skinnygirl empire, launched BStrong: Disaster Relief, a philanthropic effort designed to deliver aid in real-time. Starting with a $300,000 relief effort after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, BStrong's partnership with the Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) has delivered more than $110 million in aid worldwide.

Exclusive Furniture is also donating 10,000 water bottles, 5,000 rolls of toilet paper, 50 twin mattresses and additional toiletries. Up to $10,000 from Exclusive Furniture’s Labor Day Weekend Sale will go to the Global Empowerment Mission to help Louisiana.

The Global Empowerment Mission was founded in 2011 by former Key resident Michael Capponi. I knew Capponi when he was a teenager on the Key in the 1980s, when riding his bicycle around the island seemed the most important thing in his life. He later moved to Miami Beach and became a successful nightclub promoter and owner, and then a highly respected building contractor for high-end luxury homes.

HOUSTON, Sept. 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Goya Foods, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States, distributes an initial donation of 40,000 pounds of food to victims of Hurricane Ida. With the assistance of Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), 20,000 pounds of non-perishable food products will be packed in boxes for families and 20,000 pounds of food will go to the CO Living Word/Bethany Church in Schriever, Louisiana.

Michael Capponi, of the South Florida-based Global Empowerment Mission arrive in Grand Isle Wednesday and saw the devastation first hand. “As we drove the destruction was worse, and worse, and worse, and worse, we didn’t get back until one in the morning,” Capponi said.

CBS4's Eliott Rodriguez spoke with Michael Capponi, the CEO of the South Florida-based Global Empowerment Mission.

Varias organizaciones sin fines de lucro del sur de Florida se están movilizando para ayudar a los damnificados del devastador huracán Ida. Este lunes, salió rumbo a Louisiana un camión de Global Empowerment Mission con provisiones para los afectados por la tormenta.

In Doral, Global Empowerment Mission spent Monday morning loading a truck full of supplies to deliver to the state. Approximately 1,000 boxes filled with non-perishable food, hygiene kits and COVID protective gear were packed into the back of the truck.

Brooke Shafer reports the Global Empowerment Mission loaded up family kits with supplies throughout the weekend, its first truck left Monday headed for Baton Rouge.

For several days, Global Empowerment Mission has been working at its warehouse in Doral in anticipation of what was a Category 4 storm at landfall

As a result, South Florida nonprofits like Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) in Doral say it’s critical international aid gets delivered more efficiently and effectively than it was after Haiti’s 2010 earthquake, when more than $10 billion in global assistance did relatively little to get the impoverished Caribbean country back on its feet.

Within days of the 9 April 2021 eruption, a flurry of organisations-led disaster diplomacy commenced with the University of the West Indies (UWI), the Regional Security System (RSS), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Global Empowerment Mission (GEM), Direct Relief and private sector agancies at the forefront of the often uncoordinated efforts to render assistance to the country generally and to the nearly 25 percent of the population displaced by the eruptions.

Providing shelters to those in need is a prime objective at iDOME Shelters and their recent partnership with Global Empowerment Mission (GEM) is helping them move forward and closer to that goal.

We have partnered with Global Empowerment Mission before following the volcano eruptions in St. Vincent and the Grenadines and they have proven to be a very reliable partner. We are also pleased to partner with Accordia Shipping who will ensure that the donated goods get to Haiti.”

CNN's Impact Your World has compiled a list of vetted organizations accepting donations so you can help those affected by the crisis. GEM is one of them

On Saturday, Aug. 14, a 7.2-magnitude earthquake in Haiti has left nearly 1,500 people dead, more than 6,000 people injured and nearly 30,000 people homeless. Just two days later, Tropical Storm Grace struck the island nation, soaking the already incredibly vulnerable country in several inches of torrential rain.