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Get Us PPE proudly shares our impact stories showing how our organization and volunteers help those who are most in need of personal protective equipment. Learn more about the difference we are making for healthcare workers, frontline workers, and under-resourced communities.

Jun 29 2021
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Get Us PPE and the United Arab Emirates Deliver 275K Pieces of PPE

By Communities in Need of PPE, Impact Stories, Partners
The United Arab Emirates and Get Us PPE successfully delivered over 275,000 pieces of PPE to over 100 facilities across the United States. It was a donation that took months of coordination at the highest levels. However, at the core of this donation was a simple gesture of goodwill, a team of dedicated volunteers, and a resilient spirit. 
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Aug 22 2020
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A team delivers medical robes to Houston health care workers

Texas-Sized Teamwork Gets PPE to Houston

By Impact Stories
Amid the COVID-19 crisis, it became challenging to collect and distribute PPE to underserved communities and the majority of healthcare workers. With the help of GetUsPPE, Boston Scientific, and Something Labs, the DHX3 Amazon Warehouse in Sugar Land, Texas was able to provide PPE to Houston healthcare providers on Houston medical sites. These four organizations collaborated to assemble and distribute medical gowns for the Houston metropolitan area.  Innovators Collaborate to Deliver 10,000 Medical Gowns Something Labs, a volunteer coalition that innovates design solutions to connect frontline workers with PPE, used the GetUsPPE dataset to identify regions with high need. Working…
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Aug 01 2020
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Love Your Melon partnered with Get Us PPE to donate masks across the nation 

By Impact Stories
By Deepika Katta, a blog writer at GetUsPPE.org. Love Your Melon (LYM), a mission-driven apparel brand, was founded in an entrepreneurship class at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. Zachary and Brian started this organization to promote positive social impact and "improve the lives of children battling cancer." Its initial goal was to donate 45,000 hats, and to date, it has donated over 200,000 hats to children battling cancer and $7.2 million to the fight against pediatric cancer. It also established a goal of giving one million dollars to pediatric cancer research.   Moreover, this mission-driven company generously…
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