The Lazarus Partners Concept was introduced over 26 years ago by Brendan Wood International. Inspired by Christmas, the first Lazarus project and those which have followed have consistently united the professional skills of Brendan Wood International, namely, global investigation of performance dynamics with the selection of charitable organizations which enrich the opportunities available to those less fortunate than us.

“Lazarus looks for charitable organizations
who get the job done [and] back
organizations with effective and innovative
solutions to underlying causes rather than
those who treat symptoms alone.”

Lazarus Partners’ motto mirrors that of Brendan Wood International: “Determine the Hard Facts and Quantify the Intangibles.” This school of intelligence applies selection principles to the task of selecting charitable endeavors most deserving of support.

Lazarus Partners operates as an investigative researcher seeking out the kind of charitable organizations and charity entrepreneurs who view those they serve as “clients” and treat their benefactors as “investors”. Lazarus looks for charitable organizations who get the job done. Lazarus wants to back organizations with effective and innovative solutions to underlying causes rather than those who treat symptoms alone.

Lazarus Partners aims to celebrate and promote transparent accountability amongst the managements of charitable institutions. We want to advance benchmarks of achievement to be applied in order to increase the power of every dollar invested. Lazarus Partners identifies organizations who hold themselves accountable to their clients, to high performance standards, and to the wise, prudent and shrewd use of resources, both human and financial. It is a Lazarus fundamental to become the “voice of the client” in a world of faceless, voiceless and powerless clients too often seen and treated solely as charity cases.

Lazarus is especially sensitive and responsive to charitable organizations which confront danger in treacherous theaters of operation with courage and faith. Lazarus believes that one of the ultimate financial disciplines guiding charitable organizations is the vow of poverty and treats religious organizations adhering to this virtue accordingly.

To these ends 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.

For over 26 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. Looking to the future, Lazarus Partners will incorporate as a “Not for Profit” in 2006. Further, for the first time Lazarus will provide free advertising and other fundraising and recruitment support to Lazarus nominated charities throughout the year, instead of at Christmas only.

Taking advantage of its organizing sponsor, Brendan Wood International, Lazarus Partners will communicate the messages of it’s nominated charities to the powerful Brendan Wood International panel. This global panel is comprised of 10,000 corporate executives in 40 countries. Lazarus seeks new partners and looks forward to helping other corporations in the panel take some of our better ideas forward for their own use and benefit. To those who do, we hope that their experience will be as enriching as ours has been.