The Lazarus Partners concept was introduced over 29 years ago by Brendan Wood International. Inspired by Christmas, the first Lazarus project and those which have followed have consistently united the professional skills and relationships of Brendan Wood International with the humanitarians who define outperformance.

Lazarus Partners engages volunteers amongst our employees and friends, seeking out humanitarian organizations who view those they serve as “clients” and treat their benefactors as “investors”. Lazarus looks for effective and innovative solutions to underlying causes rather than treatment of the symptoms alone.

Lazarus Partners celebrates and promotes transparent accountability and seeks out humanitarians who provide the highest possible percentage and value of the funding dollar directly to the recipient/ client and whose volunteerism is equally outstanding.

Finally, Lazarus acts as the “Voice of the Client” in a world of faceless, voiceless and powerless recipients too often seen and treated as “charity cases”.

Lazarus is especially sensitive and responsive to organizations who take it upon themselves to confront danger in treacherous theatres of operation with courage and faith. Lazarus believes that one of the fundamental financial disciplines guiding charity is the vow of poverty and treats religious organizations adhering to this virtue accordingly.

“The Lazarus Partners concept
was introduced over 29 years
ago [and] seeks out the
humanitarians who provide the
highest possible
percentage of the funding
dollar directly to
the recipient/client
and whose volunteerism is
equally outstanding.”

Over the years, Lazarus Partners has enlisted the moral and financial support of more than 1000 volunteers comprised of Brendan Wood International partners, employees, clients, advisors, families and friends. We have invested considerably and worked hard, never to perfection, and never without fault. The challenge is great and in many ways we have only just begun.

The Tree of Life
This theme captures Lazarus Partners aspirations in our third decade of giving. Having developed effective disciplines for choosing high performance charities over the years, we have identified dynamic roots in the Tree of Life. These root organizations yield a harvest of “saved lives”. Our goal is to maximize the level of our giving and add as many new clients as we can to the number of precious lives it is our privilege to serve. The illumination of the Tree of Life with our gifts is symbolic.
-Lazarus Partners