The Good360 Disaster Recovery Council (GDRC) launched in the fall of 2017, during what would become one of the most active Atlantic hurricane seasons on record. The timing proved prescient. In the aftermath of the historic devastation wrought by Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria, many companies and nonprofit organizations felt the...
By the standard set in 2017, when a spectacular trio of Category 5 storms made it the most expensive year for disasters in U.S. history, 2018 seems uneventful. But that quick assessment glosses over clear danger signs that climate change is creating ever-more destructive weather events and the fact that...
In a move toward that ambitious goal, Good360, Global Citizen, and All Hands and Hearts - Smart Response have launched an initiative called Resilient Response, aiming to spotlight the critical need to adjust disaster giving behaviors among corporations to better support response and long-term recovery....
We established the group in 2016 to advance collaboration and engagement among private, public and nonprofit sectors to address major gaps in disaster recovery and to improve the efficiency of giving in all stages, from preparedness to initial response to long-term sustainable recovery....
With three Category 4 hurricanes (Harvey, Irma, and Maria) making U.S. landfall in 2017, it is clear that more creative, less siloed strategies are needed to rebuild hard-hit communities as these increasingly destructive natural disasters become more common....