When Joe Masciandaro, the founder and longtime leader of CarePlus New Jersey, got a letter from a woman in Cameroon who needed help getting rural residents to a nearby mental health program, he turned to a network of behavioral health leaders in America and New Jersey-based foundations and civic organizations, including the Rotary Club of Paramus, where he was a member.

Together they raised $45,000, which they wired to a Rotary Club chapter they had connected with in the west-central African nation, and that group bought a bus that could transport people to the clinic for care.