Supporting Resilient Communities, Inc.

We provide a free website to organize disaster relief. Since 2012, the Recovers.org software has been free to all communities worldwide recovering from natural disasters. It is operated by Supporting Resilient Communities, Inc., a 501(c)3 nonprofit. We empower local residents with collaborative disaster organizing tools and training, and access to experienced experts. We've been part of the recovery for almost every type of natural disaster: floods, wildfires, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes and landslides, and now a pandemic. This experience helps us guide the next community through the surprises and difficulties of the long road to recovery.

Our disaster recovery platform, [yourtown].recovers.org, is a collaborative toolkit designed to reduce duplication and confusion, prevent the "second disaster", and stay in the community under local control. It does NOT replace any traditional means of response and recovery, which are necessary and effective. It augments traditional recovery mechanisms by leveraging mass-communication tools and keeping volunteers and organizations apprised of each other's capabilities, needs and events.

The recovers.org software platform is a centralized hub for every responding organization to announce their resources, events and needs, and to connect residents with the massive online outpouring of support, via confidential databases of skilled volunteers and valuable donations.

Above all, we center the survivors.

We work with municipalities, nonprofit organizations, faith communities, volunteers, donors and businesses to serve the needs of the families that were struck by disaster. We do this by redirecting the broader philanthropic public away from what they think is needed toward what is actually needed by families suffering loss. This means fewer used clothing donations and more gift cards; fewer toys and more cash toward local recovery funds. The tapestry of needs is different in every community, and we emphasize local control and local choice as the quickest way to get a community back on its feet.