page_title: Alight
section_title: Awards and distinctions
hierarchical_section_title: Alight / Awards and distinctions
caption_attribution_description: English: American Refugee Committee offices, Minneapolis, Minnesota
context_page_description: Alight, formerly the American Refugee Committee, is an international nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that has provided humanitarian assistance and training to millions of beneficiaries over the last 40 years.
  In 2011, Alight helped nearly 2.5 million people get essential services to regain their health and take back control of their lives. Alight works with its partners and constituencies to provide opportunities and expertise to communities of refugees and internally displaced persons in seven countries in Africa, Asia, and Europe, including Iraq, Kosovo, and in the Darfur region of Sudan and is currently providing for emergency relief and recovery in Haiti. Alight provides shelter, clean water and sanitation, health care, skills training, microcredit education, and protection to help survivors of war and natural disasters to rebuild their lives with dignity, health care, security, and self-sufficiency.
context_section_description: Alight was given an A+ rating by Charitywatch.org, a charity watchdog created by the American Institute of Philanthropy to rate Non-profit organizations based on the ratio of funds spent on humanitarian aid compared to administrative overhead.
  Charity Navigator gives Alight 4 stars, its highest rating.
  Reader's Digest magazine, Money magazine, Worth magazine, and GiveSpot.com also highly rate Alight.
  In 2012, Alight was awarded the Peter F. Drucker Award for Non-Profit Innovation.
caption: Compliance manuals in the Alight office in Minneapolis
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