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- Title
A Philanthropic Approach to Supporting Emergent Disaster Response and Recovery.
- Authors
Schlegelmilch, Jeffrey; Sury, Jonathan; Brooks, Jeremy; Chandler, Thomas
- Abstract
In August 2017, Hurricane Harvey struck the US Gulf Coast and caused more than US $125 billion in damages in Texas. The loss of lives and the economic damages resulted in an outpouring of support for the recovery efforts in the form of federal assistance and private donations. The latter has supported more creative approaches to recovery. Organizations that normally would not receive funding were able to obtain resources to use in novel manners. Using the framework of Dynes typology to identify groups and their respective structures and tasks, this report from the field analyzes Hurricane Harvey and the financial support mechanisms used to support recovery efforts in Texas, what organizations were funded to do, and where they fit into Dynes typology. The authors close by noting the importance of these emerging organizations and the need to support diversity in funding disaster response and recovery efforts beyond large nonprofit organizations.
- Subjects
TEXAS; GULF Coast (U.S.); EMERGENCY management; DISASTER relief; HURRICANE Harvey, 2017; NONPROFIT organizations
- Publication
Disaster Medicine & Public Health Preparedness, 2020, Vol 14, Issue 1, p158
- ISSN
1935-7893
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/dmp.2019.97