Organization: SBP Website: https://sbpusa.org/ Lives Impacted: 10 Donor: Wrangler Hurricane Harvey, one of the costliest tropical cyclones on record, caused mass destruction in Texas that continues to be felt today. Harvey inflicted $125 billion in damage as a result of heavy rainfall that led to the flooding and damage of over 100,000 homes. The clean-up and recovery of a...
When Hurricane Harvey dumped more than 50 inches of rain on the Gulf Coast in 2017, Houston’s historically African American neighborhood of Kashmere Gardens was particularly devastated.Nearly 80 percent of single-family homes in the neighborhood of 10,000 people was damaged. Floodwaters reached up to 8 feet in places. Almost every...
After Hurricanes Maria and Irma devastated Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and other parts of the Caribbean in 2017, local leaders reached out to one of the most connected people on the planet for help. That person was Bill Clinton....
Good360, the global leader in product philanthropy and purposeful giving, is pleased to announce it has launched a Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) Commitment to Action called “Optimizing Corporate Disaster Giving and Engagement”. CGI, an initiative of the Bill, Hillary & Chelsea Clinton Foundation, convenes global leaders to create and implement innovative...
Pick 42 Foundation, Inc., located in Marion County, SC, participated in a drive last month to support survivors of Hurricane Florence. Our primary mission is to help children in our communities overcome adversity....
The complacency around Florence seems to have extended into the philanthropic realm as well. Anecdotal evidence from our partnerships team at Good360 and corporate giving levels after Hurricanes Florence and Michael suggest that donor fatigue has set in after last year’s calamitous string of Category 4 storms....
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....
On August 25th, 2017, Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the United States. The storm left many Houston-area communities with 4-8 feet of water, destroying the possessions of single- or multiple-family dwellings....
Think about this: Producing a single cotton shirt requires 2,700 liters of water — about the amount that a person drinks in 2.5 years. In fact, the $2.5 trillion fashion industry is the second highest user of water worldwide, and is responsible for 20 percent of global waste water and 10...