Climate disasters are pivotal windows to care for people and fight for solutions.
With climate disasters affecting nearly every community across the country, it’s long past time to prepare for them to shape our collective future.
That’s why we’re building a new national climate shock strategy that is:
Led by survivors of climate disasters like Hurricanes Katrina, Harvey, Sandy, and Maria
Rooted in grassroots organizing on the ground
Building the people power we need to expand the common good and a win a more just and resilient future
About Us
Climate disasters drive sweeping economic, social, cultural, and political change. As survivors of heatwaves, hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes and floods, we’ve lived it firsthand. From the privatization of public education in post-Katrina New Orleans to the for-profit takeover of Puerto Rico’s electric grid after Hurricane Maria, our communities have been set back.
It doesn’t need to be this way. Together we’ve built new powerful alliances across the country — having incredible successes in post-disaster organizing to win affordable housing, labor standards, and storm-resilient flooding and energy infrastructure. We do this by focusing on three areas of work:
Activating Rapid Response Support
When disaster strikes, Organizing Resilience is there to flank groups on the ground with our team of fundraising, community care, communications, research, policy, campaign, and base-building experts. Over the past four years, we’ve moved $12 million to 85 trusted organizations on the ground who are providing life-saving relief and building power for long-term recovery.
Convening a Community of Practice
Through Organizing Resilience, power-building organizations across the country come together to learn from past disasters, share best practices, workshop their campaigns, and build the new projects needed to face our climate reality together.
Driving Campaigns to Overhaul the National Disaster Response System
Organizing Resilience brings survivors of climate disasters from across the country together to push for public funding for a just recovery, expanded access to FEMA supports, and an overhaul to the for-profit insurance industry that has left too many people behind and vulnerable to displacement.