CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC

Private philanthropy has a unique and critical role to play in the relentless spread of global humanitarian crises by providing urgently needed help and support to people globally, whether they are affected by disease, drought, civil war or natural disasters. These crises have become a defining epidemic of this decade. Your vital support will assist organizations on the ground in countries focused on recovery efforts.

The CDP Global Recovery Fund is exclusively for international disasters and allows donors to earmark contributions to meet specific philanthropic goals for any global crisis to support medium- to long-term recovery work. Or, there is the option to allow CDP to allocate your investment where it is needed the most.

The Global Recovery Fund provides an efficient, flexible solution to expedite a gift to support recovery efforts for sudden on-set disasters or protracted humanitarian emergencies.

In March 2020, the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) launched the CDP COVID-19 Response Fund to support containment, response and recovery activities for those most affected and for the responders.

The Fund is focusing on support for nonprofit organizations working directly to respond to the pandemic among vulnerable populations in order to help build their capacity to address the most pressing needs. These include social service organizations focused on supporting low-income households, small businesses, immigrants, refugees, Native Americans and Alaska Natives, older adults, people with disabilities, and other communities vulnerable to the physical health, mental health and economic impacts of the pandemic.

CDP is working closely with nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to track both current and emergent needs. Focus areas include:

* Supporting healthcare and other frontline workers through provision and distribution of masks, gowns, gloves and other personal protective equipment (PPE) for essential staff, as well as the deployment of emergency medical teams where needed.
* Supporting quarantined and especially vulnerable individuals by lessening financial hardships for people who are quarantined and those for whom social distancing is not an option. Support also includes building the capacity of local food banks to respond to the mounting number of people who are food insecure.
* Supporting small businesses through emergency grants and mentoring programs to help owners sustain their businesses and to support the economy of vulnerable communities.
* Supporting hygiene promotion activities (WASH) and community-based care in areas with poor access to medical care to help limit the spread of COVID-19 and other infections.

CDP is responding rapidly and effectively, using contributions to the Fund to address these core issues, while constantly assessing needs. This allows CDP to be adaptive in our support.

Since 2017, California has experienced historic record-breaking wildfires and fire seasons, and each new year is poised to continue this tragic trend.

In 2017, the Tubbs Fire destroyed more than 5,600 structures and claimed 22 lives in Napa & Sonoma counties. In 2018, we witnessed the most destructive wildfire in the state’s history when the Camp Fire took 85 lives and destroyed more than 18,800 structures. And in 2019, more than 6,800 fire incidents in California burned hundreds of thousands of acres across the state, including the Kincade Fire that forced over 185,000 to flee from their homes in Sonoma County.

The Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) California Wildfires Recovery Fund supports communities across the state as they work to rebuild and recover from wildfires. Since its inception, CDP has awarded more than $3 million in grants to nonprofits and community groups in northern and southern California to help families and entire communities recover through targeted grantmaking that prioritizes medium- to long-term recovery especially among vulnerable populations.

CDP recognizes that the disaster cycle does not end after a fire and full recovery. The Fund also focuses on wildfire mitigation and risk reduction to invest in building stronger communities to keep up with the increasing trend and threat of wildfires in the state.

As the number and severity of the fires continue to increase, grantmakers and donors must intensify and expand their support to the state both before and after wildfires to better position communities to prepare, respond and recover.

To effectively address this growing threat in California, CDP experts on staff work directly with local nonprofits, stakeholders and community groups to identify specific needs and gaps related to California’s most impactful wildfires. CDP consults with many of its in-state partners, such as the Governor’s Office of Emergency Service (Cal OES) and other agencies, to assess the long-term needs of affected communities and build collaborative partnerships.

With an emphasis on recovery, this Fund:
* Targets and support vulnerable populations and communities disproportionally affected.
* Identifies and fill in gaps where public resources are unavailable or scarce.
* Gives locally and prioritize grants to small nonprofits and community groups.
* Builds and supports collaborative relationships among donors.

The programmatic expertise of CDP’s board, advisory council and staff – paired with an extensive network of disaster management experts – guide our grantmaking strategy. We emphasize making targeted, holistic investments with grants that will address the greatest emergent needs and gaps in the funding of mitigation and recovery efforts.

The CDP Atlantic Hurricane Season Recovery Fund has a focus on medium- and long-term recovery from these storms. This includes rebuilding homes and livelihoods, meeting the needs of more vulnerable populations, supporting mental health services and addressing other urgent challenges identified by the affected communities that arise as recovery efforts progress.

Our expert staff, in consultation with local stakeholders and recovery experts, identifies specific unmet recovery needs and funding gaps in each community. The Fund will explore investing in all geographic areas affected by this season’s Atlantic hurricanes.

Through CDP’s unparalleled expertise in disaster management and grantmaking, the Fund will be invested in projects and initiatives that:
* Support vulnerable populations whose lives and livelihoods have been devastated.
* Emphasize funding that is medium- and long-term in nature, based upon prevailing needs that have emerged post-disaster.
* Fill in gaps where public resources are unavailable or scarce.
* Foster collaborative relationships among grantees and other organizations.

On Feb. 6, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurred in southern Turkey near the northern border of Syria. Approximately nine hours later, a magnitude 7.5 earthquake shook the area around 59 miles (95 kilometers) to the southwest. Dozens of large aftershocks have also occurred in both countries.

The earthquake was the most devastating to hit earthquake-prone Turkey in more than 20 years and was as strong as the 1939 quake, the most powerful recorded there. Additionally, Syria’s current complex humanitarian emergency is among the world’s largest humanitarian crises, and the earthquake will only exacerbate its challenges and vulnerabilities.

CDP’s Turkey & Syria Earthquake Recovery Fund provides targeted grantmaking that prioritizes needs identified in collaboration with local partners.

Currently, we know that shelter, protection, cash assistance and health care will be sorely needed in the weeks and months ahead.

Known as “nature’s most violent storms,” the U.S. is home to more tornadoes than any other country in the world.
During the first weeks of 2023, tornadoes in Alabama and Georgia brought destruction across several counties, which left communities vulnerable and in need of support.

With the increase in tornadoes throughout the year – even in the winter – there is no longer a “tornado season,” and the historical Tornado Alley stretching across the United States is growing larger.

CDP has been active in tornado recovery since our founding. The CDP Tornado Recovery Fund allows donors to target their contributions to meet specific medium- and long-term philanthropic goals for communities affected by tornadoes.

A global food insecurity crisis is threatening the lives of millions worldwide, most acutely in the Horn of Africa. CDP’s Global Hunger Crisis Fund supports vulnerable, marginalized and at-risk groups to prevent and address hunger and malnutrition, build resilience to current and future climate-related drought and food insecurity, and focus on longer-term solutions to help them recover.

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic reduced household incomes and disrupted markets and supply chains globally, chronic and acute hunger was rising due to various factors, including conflict, socio-economic conditions, natural hazards, climate change and pests. The impact of the war in Ukraine has had a negative compounding effect on global food security, with food prices likely to remain high for the foreseeable future. This is expected to push millions of additional people into acute food insecurity and potential famine.

On Feb. 24, 2022, Russia’s military began a broad military assault on Ukraine, involving air and missile strikes in main cities, and invasion of ground troops. This latest attack is a significant escalation in a multi-year crisis stemming from 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea and supported armed separatists in Ukraine’s eastern border with Russia.

Residents, including journalists and minority groups who fear persecution under a potential Russian occupation, are fleeing the country or leaving areas that are being bombed or at risk of further conflict. The border with Poland already has lines of potential refugees’ miles long.