Whether a disaster is in your area or not, your help is needed!
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Team Rubicon is a veteran-led humanitarian organization that serves global communities before, during, and after disasters and crises. Our vision is to support humanity and build resiliency for vulnerable communities across the world.Disasters aren’t just happening. They’re hitting communities with increasing frequency and severity. That’s why we built a response mission fueled by swift, coordinated, and relentless service as our only path forward.
Mercy Chefs is a faith-based, non-profit disaster and humanitarian relief organization. We exist to provide professionally prepared, restaurant-quality meals to victims, volunteers and first responders in natural disasters and emergencies, and we partner with existing like-minded organizations to further their mission by providing food service in underserved communities across the country and around the globe.
In 2010, Chef José Andrés, ready to use his culinary knowledge and talent to help, headed to Haiti following a devastating earthquake. Cooking alongside displaced families in a camp, he was guided on the proper way to cook black beans the way Haitians like to eat them: mashed and sieved into a creamy sauce. It wasn’t just about feeding people in need—it was about listening, learning, and cooking side by side with the people impacted by the crisis. This is the real meaning of comfort food, and it’s the core value that José, along with his wife Patricia, used at the center of founding World Central Kitchen. WCK is first to the frontlines, providing meals in response to humanitarian, climate, and community crises. WCK responds to natural disasters, man-made crises, and humanitarian emergencies around the world. We’re a team of food first responders, mobilizing with the urgency of now to get meals to the people who need them most. Deploying our model of quick action, leveraging local resources, and adapting in real time, we know that a nourishing meal in a time of crisis is so much more than a plate of food—it’s hope, it’s dignity, and it’s a sign that someone cares.
NEIGHBORS FOR NEIGHBORS (That’s us!)
We’re primarily a remote aid group. We rely primarily on social media and the internet to connect people in distress with available aid and recovery resources. Originally formed after the fatal 8/18/24 Oxford, CT Floods, Neighbors for Neighbors seeks to make the process of getting aid a little easier for the victims.
Some things we do: We share information in one place and research the sources and information we are sharing to try and protect our distressed neighbors from scams. We guide and support friends and neighbors of victims in how to best assist someone in distress. We contact and stay with our distressed neighbors to help them through post-disaster processing and then help them assess what they need to do next. Sometimes we make calls or contact agencies to ask questions on their behalf to minimize the anticipation anxiety. We set up Peer to Peer Support for people experiencing disaster-related PTSD and trauma. We collect locations of donation centers, shelters, food banks, and other local resources. We’re just some neighbors who want to help people in distress find the right help they need.
THE RED CROSS
Since our founding by Clara Barton on May 21, 1881, the American Red Cross has been dedicated to serving people in need. We received our first congressional charter in 1900 and to this day we are tasked by the federal government with providing services to members of the American armed forces and their families as well as providing disaster relief in the United States and around the world.
Meals on Wheels America is the leadership organization supporting the more than 5,000 community-based programs across the country that are dedicated to addressing senior hunger and isolation. Powered by a trusted volunteer workforce, this network delivers a comprehensive solution that begins with a meal and is proven to enable independence and well-being through the additional benefits of tailored nutrition, social connection, safety and much more. By providing funding, programming, education, research and advocacy, Meals on Wheels America empowers its local member programs to strengthen their communities, one senior at a time.
United Way is engaged in 95% of the U.S., and serves more than 1,100 communities across 37 countries and territories worldwide. We bring people together to build stronger, more equitable communities where everyone can thrive. With our 11.5M volunteers, 6.8M donors, 29K community partners and 45K corporate partners, we’re strengthening education, economic mobility, and access to health.
Third Wave Volunteers first responders are a disaster relief non-profit 501c3 set up to mobilize; medical and non-medical responders and sustainable aid to underserved and affected communities. Third Wave Volunteers have run large refugee camps, field hospitals, and resilience hubs after natural/ man-made disasters and pandemics around the world for the past 22 years.
Our organization is made up of 100% volunteers: those who are willing and able to donate their time, skills, and expertise to make it possible for us to make an impact and serve the community during times of need. We are always looking for individuals who align with our core values and code of conduct to help us with every aspect of our organization: admin, IT, marketing, finance, deployment, events, and more.
As one of the most well-known disaster-relief organizations in the country, The Salvation Army is ready with immediate response and recovery plans unique to the community affected. Plans forged from decades of recovery efforts and learnings from across the world.
We serve in nearly every community in the United States long before a disaster happens. We’re among the first on the spot, providing wildfire, flood, tornado, or hurricane relief, and we stay long after a catastrophe has passed.
We are an organization committed to effectively and efficiently addressing the immediate and long-term needs of global communities impacted by disasters. All Hands and Hearts arrives early for first response and stays late to rebuild schools and homes in a disaster-resilient way.