Welcome to Compassionate Response

We are an all-volunteer led 501(c)(3) non-profit in its third decade of work.

Our mission is to provide humanitarian assistance globally, including with health, education, housing and uniting the world and communities through music and art.

Current Projects

Midwife and Doula Support

  • Committed to improving maternal health outcomes in all communities.
  • Supporting midwife education and access to midwife education.

Accessible Wheelchair Hunting and Outdoor Opportunity

Helping provide an all-terrain track wheelchair for those hunters that require a wheelchair. 

Partnering with a game reserve and Hollow Oak GSP to provide an experience for a hunter in the track wc and their family and friends.

Music and Arts

Helping to raise money for neighborhood center programming through their major fundraiser, a music festival in Madison, Wisconsin, La Fete de Marquette.

Supporting learning about the culture of Ireland through music, dance and cultural exchange.

Supporting budding artists and musicians to create, perform and record their art.

Lighting up the world through beauty.

Committed to supporting children with special needs through music education opportunities.

Past Projects

Material and Equipment Support

Clean water projects, obtaining and shipping medicine and supplies, X-ray and Ultrasound equipment.

Partnerships

Partnered with Grand Valley State College Law School for the “Making Knowledge Free” campaign.

Educational Support

Support of Nursing and Medical Students in Malawi (Africa) and Haiti.

A Midwife’s Companion

Google chose Compassionate Response Foundation to trial phone apps by supporting midwifery care information downloads globally. A midwife’s companion, based on the World Health Organization (WHO) maternal and delivery care material, has been downloaded to midwives in the field on all continents except Antarctica.

Solar Infrastructure

Designed, developed, and installed solar panels in two hospitals in Africa, working with college engineering students, to power Operative Room equipment during power outages.

Global Humanitarian Efforts

Partnered with universities in NY and Leogane, Haiti; Partners in Health; Clean Stove Project through the University of Illinois; Grand Valley State College and Embangweni Hospital; Group Health Cooperative and multiple other agencies to achieve mutual goals in giving and shipping aid.