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Hurricane Helene and Milton Response Fund

● Hurricane Helene and Milton Response Fund

Hurricane Helene has devastated communities in Florida, Georgia, Western North Carolina, and Eastern Tennessee. Catastrophic flooding has left thousands unhoused, and severe damage to mountain roads, highways, and bridges have left many stranded. Now Hurricane Milton has strengthened to a terrifying scale and is now bearing down on Florida.

Community organizations in the impacted areas are facing enormous challenges as they attempt to reach residents in rural areas who are without power or cell phone service. At the same time, local organizers are preparing for months and years of rebuilding and recovery, and are determined to center equity in a region that is marked by both the resilience of local people and a history of systemic poverty.


there is no calm before the storm.

It’s time to change how we work.

We are organizers, government, and philanthropy working to protect lives and advance structural reform in the face of climate disasters.

Organizing groups

Cross-sector Scenario planning

We are bringing together stakeholders in climate prone regions to analyze strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in disaster response and post-disaster organizing. This process will inform a set of mutual agreements that will steer new capacity building, assign responsibilities, fill pre-identified gaps, and build more powerful organizations.

Government

strategic POlicy change

Disasters are high-stakes battlegrounds of concentrated influence over public policy. We are networking aligned government leaders and developing strategies to address the political threats and potential opportunities that arise during and after disaster.

philanthropy

Funding to meet the moment

It’s time to make our disaster response dollars go further. We are developing tools and resources that enlist funders seeking more impact through their disaster response investments. Our work highlights the advantages of community-based disaster recovery in terms of equity and long-term change.

Responding to humanitarian and political crises

Housed at the Amalgamated Foundation, Organizing Resilience is a new initiative coordinating national and local expertise to develop the tools, talent, and networks that will allow movement organizations, the philanthropic community, and government leaders to respond to both the humanitarian and political crises that unfold during and after moments of disaster.  

By pre-building key aspects of disaster response and networking across regions and sectors ahead of time, Organizing Resilience will connect resources to on-the-ground leaders where they will have a lasting impact to build more powerful organizations, increase the efficiency of direct relief efforts, assert control over the narrative, and protect dedicated capacity for policy campaigns.