Sherece West, CEO, Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation

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Sherece West, CEO, Louisiana Disaster Recovery
Foundation www.louisianahelp.org/
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What is LDRF?

• Provide resources for relief, recovery and
  betterment Louisiana
• Raised total of 40 million
• Raised 37 million grantmaking
• Raised 3 million operating support
• Awarded 14 million in grants to 43 grantees
• Relief, Housing, Small Business, Policy,
  Nonprofit Infrastructure

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What Foundations Can Do to Prepare for a
Disaster?

• Prepare Foundations
• Prepare Grantees
• Additional Advice

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What Foundations Can Do to Prepare Themselves?

• Define Emergency/Disaster
• Disaster Preparedness Plan Elements
• Communication
• Insurance
• Staff
• Essential Personnel

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Foundations Prepare Themselves cont.

• Foundation Plan Elements cont.
• State of the Art Technology
• Files
• Operations
• Physical Plant
• Relocation
• Loaned Executives, Foundation Colleagues

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Foundations Prepare Response toColleagues in
Philanthropy and General Public

• Define Disaster or Emergency
• Create Response Plan to include
• Communication Strategy
• Coordination of Money
• Where to Direct Money (funds, NCG, nonprofits)
• Who/How Will Collect money
• Who/How Will Disburse money
• Collection/Direction of Gifts, Goods and Services
• Coordination of Volunteers

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Foundations Prepare Grantmaking Response Plan
Elements

• Support to Grantees Quickly
• Decide what will fund
• Level of funding
• Relax requirements
• Wire transfers
• Relief assistance
• Recovery assistance
• Length of support

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What Foundations Can Do to Prepare Grantees?

• Provide tools, templates and support to create
• organizational disaster preparedness plan
• community disaster preparedness plan
• city, regional, statewide plan
• Convene nonprofit organizations major players in
  disasters to
• Learn the role and functions of each
• Build relationships
• Work together on creation of plans and strategies
• Create and disseminate comprehensive Emergency
  Preparedness Kits to citizens to include what to
  do in emergency and resources available

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Foundations Prepare Grantees cont.

• Build capacity of grantees to hold major players
  accountable during disaster/emergency
• (Major players include FEMA, American Red Cross,
  Volunteers of America, Salvation Army, other
  humanitarian relief organizations, Corporations,
  Federal, State and Local Government)

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Foundations Prepare Grantees cont.

• Equip FBO to be first responders
• Assess nonprofits to determine first responders
• Train first responders to
• Respond in emergency/disaster
• Communicate within and outside of community
• Implement organization, community, city and
  statewide plan
• Assist elderly, physically and mentally disabled
• Coordinate volunteers
• Collect money, gifts, goods and services
• Create and disseminate first responders manual
  and kits

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Foundations Preparedness

• Build Capacity of Nonprofit Sector
• Livable wage
• Pensions
• State of the art technology
• Operating support
• Knowledge, tools, skills, technology, etc. to
  effectively and efficiently provide services and
  support and carry out its function in civil
  society
• Eliminate Poverty
• Livable wage
• Asset building
• Trust
• Communication

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Foundations Prepare Additional Advice

• Comprehensive Community Building
• Social Capital Building
• Civic Capacity
• Support Commission to glean lessons learned from
  Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, 9/11, and
  international disaster response
• Prepare for recovery

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