Operation USA
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| Founded | 1979, with its California incorporation date in May 1980 |
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| Founder | Richard M. Walden |
| Focus | Disaster relief, Sustainable relief, Healthcare, Ending poverty |
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Area served
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Global |
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Key people
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Richard M. Walden, President and CEO Board Members: Julie Andrews US Senator Gary Hart Dr. Louis J. Ignarro Jonathan Estrin Board member, Gary Larsen Vice Chairman; L. Leland Whitney, Bob Johnson, Lorin Stevenson, Meg Starr, Maria Mohiuddin Verjee, Tom Moore, Jr., Drew Hagen, Dave Brubaker, Dr. Stanley Frileck, Dr. Laurence Heifetz, Michael Mahdesian(Chairman), Jack Shakely, Jeff Franklin, Amb. Derek Shearer, Julie Yannatta, Richard M. Walden, Rosario Dawson, Rick Allen, Peter Greenberg, Julie Yannatta, Dr. Paul F. O'Rourke |
| Slogan | Give and it gets there. |
| Website | www.opusa.org |
Operation USA (OpUSA, Operation California, or OpCal) is a non profit humanitarian organization dedicated to helping communities alleviate the effects of disaster, disease, and endemic poverty throughout the world by providing privately funded relief, reconstruction, humanitarian aid and development aid. It is exclusively privately funded, receiving no assistance from the United States Federal Government. OPUSA had a revenue of over $22 million in fiscal year 2012 and has shipped over $425 million worth of "high-priority medical, nutritional and shelter supplies" since its inception, including shipments to Haiti, Japan, Chile, Kenya and Pakistan in 2011 and 2011.
Operation USA was part of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines in 1997 when it won the Nobel Peace Prize. Operation California was also the winner of the 1983 President's Volunteer Action Award. Operation USA has been named one of America's Best 100 Charities by Worth Magazine and, in October 2008, was named the top-rated "exclusively privately funded charity in the U.S." by Charity Navigator. Operation USA collaborated with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the US National Laboratories at Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos to develop new approaches to land mine detection, is a member of InterAction, and is an AlertNet news partner. In 2014 Operation USA's CEO Richard M. Walden received the Honeywell Hometown Hero Award from the Honeywell Corp.
Operation California began in 1979 as "a relief organization created to provide aid to Vietnamese Boat People and Cambodian refugees", co-founded by Richard Walden (still active as President & CEO) and Llewellyn Werner (who left in early 1980). The organization flew "the first international relief airlift to Cambodia since 1975", delivering medicine to Phnom-Penh. Operation California had airlifted more than $3 million worth of aid by October 1979.
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