An Overview Of Our Solution
- Population Impacted: 250 Million affected by natural disasters per year
- Continent: North America
Address
155 9th St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Estados Unidos
Hazard
Identify the likelihood and frequency of this hazard
Explain how vulnerable the community is to this hazard
List the potential affects of this hazard
Identify how sensitive the community is to these affects
Preparedness Goal
Implementation Actions
A Recovers website, located at YourTown.Recovers.org, provides a central online hub to prepare your community for a disaster and facilitate an efficient recovery.
Before a disaster, the site serves as an online hub that provides:
- Communication tools for organizations and government agencies too collaborate and assign responsibilities. For example, who will collect donations, organize volunteers, or serve meals?
- Training for organizations to become familiar with the tools on a Recovers site.
- Awareness of what organizations are available after a disaster and their contact information.
After a disaster, the site becomes the online community hub that provides:
- Confidential collection of resident needs, in-kind donations, and volunteer skills
- Information of where to donate money directly to the community
- Multiple levels of access for residents, organizations, and government agencies
- Sub-domain specific to your community (ie https://Austin.Recovers.org)
- Secure organizer area to manage resident needs, donations, and volunteers
- Case management tools
- A community resource map
- Social media integration (Facebook, Twitter, and more)
- Community communication tools via email and public news posts
- Access to help from our partner organizations
- Analytics and mapping tools for situational awareness
- Training and support
- Data export to learn from past disasters and improve
Describe Your Solution
By having a Recovers site deployed before a disaster, a community will be able to recover more efficiently. We have seen that 70% of all of the online interest in helping a community (donations and volunteers) happens in the first 4-7 days after a disaster. Having a website up and running, with SEO optimization, will help you collect all of this interest. And even though you don't need all of the donations and volunteers in the first week after a disaster, you will need them in the coming months and years. A Recovers site allows a community to collect this interest and use it later in the recovery, when it is needed.
Finding reliable recovery information after a disaster is a problem. A Recovers site serves as a hub for reliable recovery information that can be accessed by any one, any time.
We have found that local organizations (non-profits, faith-based organizations, and businesses) do the majority of disaster recovery organizing. Unfortunately, there are no tools currently available to organizations manage recovery efforts. Therefore, they usually turn to Facebook, Twitter, and Google Docs to solve their problems. A Recovers site solves this problem by giving organizations easy-to-use tools to manage donations and volunteers to help meet the needs of their community.