Community Organized Relief Effort

Community Organized Relief Effort
(CORE Response)
Founded	2010 (J/P HRO) ; 2019 (CORE)
Founders	Sean Penn, Sanela Diana Jenkins, Ann Lee (honorary)
Type	Non-profit organization
Focus	COVID-19 testing/contact tracing, wrap-around services, displaced persons camp and relocations management, health, education, community development and livelihoods, engineering and construction, including rubble removal
Location	Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Los Angeles, California, (U.S. headquarters);
Area served	Haiti, Bahamas, Caribbean, Puerto Rico, USA
Website	coreresponse.org/

Community Organized Relief Effort, also known as CORE Response and formerly as J/P Haitian Relief Organization is a non-profit organization founded by actor Sean Penn and Ann Lee in response to the January 12, 2010 earthquake in Haiti. The organization was founded in 2010 and changed its name in 2019 to receive contracts and donations to work globally. In March 2020, CORE began administering free COVID-19 tests in the U.S. amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

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