From Sore to Soar

Disaster Relief

At-a-Glance

Assists disaster-stricken areas, revitalizes and restores communities, repairs destroyed supply chains, and provides relief during disruption, economic crisis, war, and catastrophes

We learn from every natural disaster, whether it’s a fire or a flood, we can learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better” - Malcolm Turnbull

Lifelines, Helplines & Hotlines

  • Disaster Distress Helpline:

    • Phone: 1-800-985-5990

    • Description: Crisis counseling due to emotional distress related to any natural or human-caused disaster.

  • https://www.911.gov

  • Recovering from Disaster (Ready.gov)

  • Disaster Assistance for Older Adults

  • FEMA

  • Find Shelter near you

    • Text the person’s zip code to 43362 (4FEMA)

Supportive Advosources

  • Disaster assistance:

    • Website: http://www.disasterassistance.gov

    • Website: Provide disaster survivors with information, support, services, and a means to access and apply for federal, state, local, tribal, and private disaster assistance programs

  • Action Against Hunger:

    • Website: unknown

    • Description: Global movement and long-term change against hunger and malnutrition, disease, and freedom

  • ADRA International

    • Website: http://www.adra.org

    • Description: Global humanitarian organization that delivers relief and development to individuals in more than 118 countries.

  • Air Serv International

    • Website: https://www.airserv.org

    • Description: Increasing humanitarian, life-saving aid (transport goods, services, relief workers, medical evaluations, displacement) to global communities through aviation and caravans.

  • Alight - Formally American Refugee Committee

    • Website: https://wearealight.org

    • Description: Seeing possibility instead of scarcity - providing health care and clean water, shelter, protection, and economic opportunity to more than 3.5 million people in 19 countries each year

  • American Friends Service Committee

    • Website: https://www.afsc.org

    • Description: Proving rapid humanitarian support during disasters, in Philadelphia, PA

  • American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee

    • Website: www.jdc.org

    • Description: Jewish humanitarian organization, leading rescue and aid, public health emergencies, and natural disasters, New York, NY

  • American Jewish World Service

    • Website: https://act.ajws.org

    • Description: A social justice organization fighting for civil and political rights, land water, and climate justice, US advocacy, ending poverty, pandemics, and disaster support, the advancement of the rights of women, girls, LGBTQI+ people, and Indigenous communities, ending child marriage. Located in New York, NY (serving: Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean)

  • American Red Cross

    • Website: https://www.redcross.org

    • Phone: 1-800-HELP-NOW.

    • Description: Provides vital services like relief, shelter, food, comfort and support to those in crisis and helping others be prepared to respond in emergencies.

  • AmeriCares

    • Website: americares.org

    • Description: Leading the charge to support accessible, reliable health care to people affected by poverty or disaster in Stamford, CT

  • Baby2Baby

    • Website: https://baby2baby.org

    • Description: Mega diaper bank and the nonprofit organization providing essential items to children distributing over 200 million items to children in homeless shelters, domestic violence programs, foster care, hospitals, underserved schools, and in the wake of disaster.

  • BStrong Foundation:

    • Website: https://bethenny.com/bstrong

    • Description: provides emergency assistance to all those in crisis with aid such as gift cards, bank cards, and necessary supplies.

  • * Delivering Good:

    • Website: https://www.delivering-good.org

    • Description: An organization that’s been around since 1985, Merchandise is donated from companies that make or market the goods, and through our network of community nonprofit partners, we deliver hope and dignity to people in need.

  • Direct Relief

    • Website: https://www.directrelief.org

    • Description: Equips health professionals in resource-poor communities to meet the challenges of diagnosing and caring for people in need

  • * Every Child’s Dream Foundation

    • Website: https://www.ecdnonprofit.org

    • Description: Delivers specialty care packages filled with vital supplies, including elements that provide love and nurture to babies and children worldwide

  • Feeding America

    • Website: https://www.feedingamerica.org

    • Description: largest hunger-relief organization in the United States, making an advanced change in America by ensuring equitable access to nutritious food for all in partnership with food banks, policymakers, supporters, and the communities served

  • Giving Children Hope

    • Website: https://www.givingchildrenhope.org

    • Description: equips front-line partners with resources to serve vulnerable children and families. Provide sustainable hope through wellness programs and disaster response in collaboration with local and global communities by gathering and giving medical resources, Nutritional Foods, and Basic Needs in Buena Park, CA

  • Habitat for Humanity

    • Website: https://secure.habitat.org

    • Description: Building is the belief that everyone, everywhere should have a healthy, affordable place to call home

  • Hands on

    • Website: https://www.hon.org

    • Description: Nashville volunteers activate and manage the Emergency Management Plan working closely to bolster disaster relief and recovery efforts

  • International Medical Corps (IMC)

    • Website: https://internationalmedicalcorps.org

    • Description: Delivers emergency medical and related services to those affected by conflict, disaster, and disease, no matter where they are, no matter what the conditions, and trains people in their communities, providing them with the skills they need to recover, chart their own path to self-reliance and become effective first responders

  • International Relief and Development

    • Website: https://www.medicalteams.org

    • Description: Providing refugee medical care, disaster relief, maternal and child care, and dental program both domestically and globally

  • International Crisis Aid

    • Website: www.crisisaid.org

    • Description: Collaborates with relief organizations to provide aid, materials, and medicine to people in crisis

  • International Relief Teams

    • Website: unknown

    • Description: helps families survive and recover after a disaster by providing timely and effective assistance. IRT deploys medical and reconstruction teams, provides supplies, and finances the restoration of infrastructure. IRT builds healthy communities through medical missions to low-income countries, including surgical and eyeglass teams; shipments of medicines to rural hospitals and clinics; and health, nutrition, and education support for vulnerable populations.

  • Latter-Day Saints Charities (Salt Lake City, UT):

    • Website: https://www.latterdaysaintcharities.org

    • Description: Relief and development projects in 195 countries and territories that provides assistance based on core principles of personal responsibility, community support, self-reliance, and sustainability.

  • Medical Teams International (Portland, OR):

    • Website: https://www.medicalteams.org

    • Description: Delivering life-saving medical care to people in crisis, mobilizing volunteers in places of turmoil, disease and natural disaster, to save lives and restore communities

  • MAP International

    • Website: www.map.org

    • Description: Provides medicine and health supplies to those in need around the world

  • Mercy Corps (Portland, OR):

    • Website: https://www.mercycorps.org

    • Description: Mobilizes teams in response to humanitarian crises delivering assistance and support to women, men, and children facing obstacles of poverty, disaster, violent conflict, and impacts of climate change

  • Muslim Aid

    • Website: https://www.mausa.org

    • Description: Helping people who are victims of natural disasters or conflict and those that are suffering from poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, discrimination, homelessness, debt, unemployment, injustice, deprivation or lack of skills and economic opportunities.

  • National Disaster Relief Networks

    • Website: https://www.nrn.org

    • Description: an organization committed to bringing large numbers of volunteers to state and federally-declared disaster areas for the purpose of helping families in their efforts to rebuild their homes, their communities, and their lives.

  • National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (NVOAD):

    • Website: https://www.nvoad.org

    • Description: association of organizations that mitigate and alleviate the impact of disasters, provides a forum promoting cooperation, communication, coordination and collaboration; and fosters more effective delivery of services to communities affected by disaster.​

  • Operation USA (Culver City, CA):

    • Website: https://www.opusa.org

    • Description: Helps children and families recover and thrive in the wake of disasters.

  • Pact: (Washington, DC):

    • Website: https://www.pactworld.org

    • Description: An international development organization at work in nearly 40 countries, Pact builds solutions for human development that are evidence-based, data-driven, and owned by the communities we serve.

  • Project Hope (Millwood, VA):

    • Website: https://www.projecthope.org

    • Description: Provides front-line support to the world’s health challenges, partnering hand-in-hand with communities, health care workers, and public health systems to ensure sustainable change.

  • Relief International

    • Website: https://www.ri.org

    • Description: Education, economic opportunity, water, sanitation and hygiene, health and nutritionhealthcare

  • Salvation Army World Services Army

    • Website: https://www.sawso.org

    • Description: SAWSO has helped people help themselves through sustainable programs that improve living conditions, combat the spread of disease, raise skill levels, increase productivity, and instill self-confidence, assessing need, building programs to create change 

  • Save the Children USA

    • Website: https://www.savethechildren.org

    • Description: Supporting humanity and famine, poverty, Ukraine conflict, crisis, climate change, health, education, advocacy, policy, and emergency response.

  • Unicef USA

    • Website: https://www.unicefusa.org

    • Description: Missions include child trafficking, disabilities, education, equity for girls, mental health, child migrant & refugees, climate change, conflict, covid-19, earthquakes, food crisis, weather disasters, health, immunization, nutrition, protection, relief, water in Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, and South America.

  • United Way:

  • Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (Boston, MA):

    • Website: https://www.uusc.org

    • Description: Advancing human rights through grassroots collaborations defending injustice due to unjust power structures, systematic oppression

  • United Methodist Committee on Relief

    • Website: https://umcmission.org

    • Description: Partners in 115 countries, sending of missionaries, evangelism, and church revitalization during disaster response and recovery led by the United Methodist Committee on Relief, and global health

  • United States Fund for UNICEF (New York, NY)

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