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Corus International is best understood as a connecting organization rather than a single charity. Headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, it sits above a family of member organizations that each keep their own name, their own governing board and their own programming, while Corus itself holds the shared nonprofit registration, coordinates strategy across the family and absorbs administrative work that would otherwise be duplicated across separate charities.
Lutheran World Relief is the founding member most visible to a reader of this atlas: the relief and development agency of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, working across nearly thirty countries in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas on smallholder agriculture, climate adaptation and emergency response. IMA World Health, Corus's other founding member, works the global health side of the same mission. Around these two nonprofit founders, Corus has added smaller for-profit ventures, including a technology company and an investment arm, extending the connecting model beyond traditional charity into market-based development tools.
Corus states its own mission in plain terms: to urgently end poverty, suffering and injustice wherever they afflict humanity. It also runs its own initiative, In School, aimed at expanding girls' access to education, led by education and technology specialists inside the Corus family rather than by any one member agency alone. The organization files its own audited nonprofit financial disclosures as Corus International Inc., distinct from the disclosures Lutheran World Relief and its other members continue to file individually.