Thomas Tighe

About

Thomas Tighe has served as President and CEO of Direct Relief, a nonprofit humanitarian medical organization, since October 2000. Direct Relief, established in Santa Barbara in 1948 and funded entirely with private support, provides medical material assistance to locally run health programs around the world and in the U.S. Since Tighe’s arrival, the organization has provided cash grants of more than $35 million and furnished more than $2.2 billion essential medicines, equipment, and supplies to support health services for low-income people in 88 developing countries and in all 50 U.S. states, where the organization conducts the country’s largest nonprofit charitable medicines program. During this tenure, Direct Relief has been named one of America’s Best 100 Charities by Worth magazine, has been rated by Forbes as being 99 percent efficient or better in fundraising since 2001, won the Peter F. Drucker Foundation’s award for Nonprofit Innovation, the ESRI President’s Award for GIS innov

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Santa Barbara, US