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Our Partners and Sponsors

Team Rubicon works with a wide variety of companies, organizations, and nonprofits. Without their generosity we would not be able to marry the skills of veterans and medical professionals to bring vanguard disaster relief around the globe. If you’re interested in sponsoring Team Rubicon, please contact us.

Featured Partners and Sponsors

  • TR is a member of CGI-America, having made a Commitment to Action to repurpose the skills of 500 young military veterans for disaster relief by 2013.

    See TR’s Commitment to Action

  • The Google Foundation awarded Team Rubicon a one-time grant worth $150,000 for operations, advertising and marketing activities.

    See TR and Google Foundation

  • In 2011, Southwest Airlines awarded TR with 40 free round trip tickets to anywhere in the United States.

    Go to Southwest Airlines

  • TAD is the choice supplier for performance apparel to be used in TR’s disaster response and humanitarian missions around the world.

    See TR and Triple Aught Design

  • Chadbourne and Parke is TR’s pro bono legal counsel, providing TR assistance on everything from visas to contracts to strategy.

    Go to Chadbourne and Parke

  • Public Properties is TR’s first major corporate sponsor, donating $40,000 over the first two years of operations.

    See TR and Public Properties

More Partners and Sponsors

  • Operation Gratitude partnered with TR to provide field gear and other logistical items.
  • Meijer donated $5000 worth of gift cards following the tornado outbreaks of March 2012.

  • Team Rubicon's forms are provided by Wufoo.

    Forms by Wufoo
  • Cream for a Cause offers products, made of non toxic ingredients to improve your health, to support Team Rubicon.
    See TR and Cream for a Cause

  • TR refurbished or remodeled six homes of Wounded Warriors over the 2011 Veteran’s Day weekend.

    See TR and Habitat on Veteran’s Day
  • TR is featured as an official charity for the 2012 LA Marathon.
    See LA Marathon Press Release

  • TR is a featured charity on the Universal Giving fundraising platform in the immediate aftermath of natural disasters.

    See TR and Universal Giving

  • TMC is an incubator to TR, providing three fellowships to TR volunteers in order to help scale TR operations.

    See TR and The Mission Continues

  • Mobilize.org provides TR with non-profit support and guidance and TR was the winner of the 2010 Beyond the Welcome Home competition.

    See TR and Mobilize.org

  • TR is a member of the Community Partners Program within LMU’s Center for Service and Action.

    Go to Loyola Marymount University

  • TR deployed in partnership with the IMC following the breakout of cholera in Port-au-Prince.

    See TR deploys with IMC
  • Wharton Business School has partnered with TR during the 2010, 2011, and 2012 academic school years to determine best practices in disaster response operations.
    See TR partners with Wharton Business School
  • TR serves on the Executive Operating Committee which seeks to address the mental health issues of returning veterans.
    Go to The Veterans Innovation Center

  • TR serves on the VEMEC Emergency Management Committee which evaluates the preparedness of the VA’s system to respond adequately to large disasters.

    Go to VEMEC
  • Husqvarna donated over $10,000 in equipment to TR following the massive F5 tornado that ripped through Joplin, MO.
    See TR and Husqvarna in Joplin

  • One Percent Foundation awarded TR with a $12,000.01 grant to support TR’s missions around the globe.

    See TR and One Percent Foundation
  • Going Home Pictures embeds videographers with TR’s disaster response teams and produces video content.
    See TR and Going Home Pictures
  • AIDF is a free-to-attend, annual global event for the aid, relief and development sectors that address global humanitarian and development challenges.
    See TR partners with AIDF

What's with the name?

Simple. "Team" emphasizes the organization's military ethos of small, cohesive units. "Rubicon" refers to the river in northeastern Italy, that divided the Roman Republic from Gaul. When Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon at the head of his legions and marched on Rome, it marked a point of no return. The phrase "crossing the Rubicon" has since survived in reference to any group committing itself to a risky course of action. On January 17th, 2010, despite government and large aid organization's advice not to proceed, Team Rubicon members crossed the Artibonite River separating the Dominican Republic and Haiti, carrying crucial gear and medical supplies to the people of Port-au-Prince. Once across, they were irrevocably committed to their task. Hence the name: Team Rubicon

What's with the logo?

The Team Rubicon logo consists primarily of a cross turned on its side with a river flowing through it. The cross represents the traditional symbol of medical aid. It is on its side because Team Rubicon represents such a departure from the current paradigm in disaster response. The river flowing through the cross represents the "Gap" that exists between large natural disasters and conventional aid response. Team Rubicon serves to "Bridge" this gap; providing field triage and relief operations until large aid organizations and nations can provide definitive care.

What's with the slogan?

"Bridge the Gap" refers to Team Rubicon's primary mission of providing disaster relief between the moment a disaster happens and the point at which conventional aid organizations respond. The "gap" is primarily time; the crucial window following a disaster when victims have traditionally been without outside aid. When the "Gap" closes - once conventional aid organizations arrive - Team Rubicon moves on.

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