by Susanne | Dec 2, 2022 | News
Flu has ripped through our small team. On this day of giving, we’re giving ourselves a break, and postponing today’s Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving post until Monday. In disaster, reality always wins. In everyday life, you sometimes have to...
by Susanne | Nov 29, 2022 | 2022 Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving, News
To celebrate the giving of Thanksgiving and Giving Tuesday, we give to you … twelve days of disaster! Well, maybe just some insights into disaster and community response. Disaster has gone mainstream. From fire to flood, pandemic to power outage,...
by Susanne | May 15, 2022 | COVID-19, Disaster Management, Leaders, News, Recovery, Research
We recently presented the amazingly creative Verbal to Visual community — led by the inspired and inspiring Doug Neill — with a challenge: Create a one-page sketchnote to make the “7 Tips for Being Effective in a Crisis” we identified in our research easy to remember....
by Susanne | Feb 7, 2022 | News, Organization, Update
Thanks to Social Good Fund, our fiscal sponsor, we don’t have to prepare a formal annual report. We do, however, have to report on our accomplishments and talk about our plans for the upcoming year. But we don’t have the trials of preparing financials and...
by Garett Dworman | Jan 6, 2022 | COVID-19, Disaster Management, Leaders, News, Recovery, Research
At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, we set out to learn from Spontaneous Leaders — people who had started a grassroots response to help their community. We gained a clear understanding of what support they need (Learning from grassroots leaders in COVID-19,...
by Susanne | Dec 28, 2021 | Hazards, News, Training, Wildfire
If you didn’t have a chance to follow our very successful 2021 Wildfire Advent Calendar, here is the full list: How do wildfires get their names? Learn how wildfires are named in California. Fire tornadoes See the drama of how large fires create their own...
