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Story: Ripple Donates $300,000 for Urgent Nepal Flood Relief Efforts as Death Toll Exceeds 100

By Pankaj K

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What Triggered the Crisis. Glacial events of this kind can be brutally sudden. There's often little warning before a river…

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Ripple's Track Record on Disaster Giving. Ripple's relationship with World Central Kitchen goes back to 2020.

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Why World Central Kitchen and Mercy Corps. World Central Kitchen has a well-known model: get food to disaster zones fast, often before larger…

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Ripple is sending $300,000 to Nepal and Tibet after catastrophic flooding killed more than 100 people and left hundreds more displaced across the region.

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The money goes to two organizations already on the ground: World Central Kitchen and Mercy Corps.

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Glacial events of this kind can be brutally sudden. There's often little warning before a river backs up, and even less before it breaks.

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Ripple's $300,000 is aimed squarely at that immediate gap: emergency meals, water, and sanitation for communities that can't wait for slower institutional responses.

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The company didn't release a statement with detailed comments on further steps. No timeline for additional donations was given.

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Ripple's relationship with World Central Kitchen goes back to 2020. Since then, the partnership has helped deliver millions of meals globally in the wake of natural disasters.

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And it's not just money. Ripple has also used its payment technology to help move aid more efficiently.

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In October 2025, Ripple worked with Water.org on food and water insecurity. That came before the Nepal crisis.

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The numbers inside the company are striking too. Ripple's 2025 Impact Report put employee fundraising at $550,000 for global nonprofits in a single year.

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So the $300,000 for Nepal isn't a one-off. It sits inside a much larger structure of giving that Ripple has built through its Ripple Impact program over several years.

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Mercy Corps brings a different kind of depth. The organization focuses on water, sanitation, and longer-term community resilience — which matters in a flood scenario where…

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