[2][4] Bodhi and some of his students formally established Buddhist Global Relief in June 2008, registered in New Jersey.
[4] BGR works to create long-term solutions to poverty and hunger and to improve women's education and economic power worldwide.
[6] BGR has partnered with Helen Keller International to provide sufficient micronutrients to people in Niger and Mali.
[7] BGR was one of the 40 groups that pledged to work with "Tomorrow Together", a coalition created to promote a five-year initiative to encourage unity, empathy, and service each year on 9/11, through to the 20th anniversary of 9/11 in 2021.
[8] After the April 2015 Nepal earthquake, BGR made an emergency donation of $10,000,[9] which was distributed among five charities: UNICEF, CARE, Direct Relief, Oxfam America, and the International Medical Corps.