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Three Ways to Help Hurricane Harvey Recovery Efforts Over the Long Term

Three Ways to Help Hurricane Harvey Recovery Efforts Over the Long Term

Published 08-29-17

Submitted by America's Charities

Harvey made landfall on August 25 near Rockport, Texas, as a Category 4 storm. A state of emergency has been declared in 30 counties, seven counties are under evacuation orders, and a major disaster declaration has been signed by the president. Several hundred thousand are without power, several thousand have been displaced to shelters, and search and rescue efforts are ongoing. America’s first major hurricane to make landfall since 2005, Hurricane Harvey is expected to stall for several days over southern Texas, leading to catastrophic flooding across the region. An estimated 12 million people are under a Flash Flood emergency. 

We expect the long-term needs for communities impacted by Hurricane Harvey to include: rebuilding homes, businesses, infrastructure, meeting the needs of young children, supporting mental health needs, and boosting damaged agricultural sectors.

You can support these long-term recovery efforts now by donating to America’s Charities Disaster Recovery Fund – Hurricane Harvey.

3 Ways to Give:

  1. Make this Fund available on your company's workplace giving platform. Donating at the workplace is convenient and has proven to facilitate greater levels of giving. If you are a client of America’s Charities, please contact us at clientsolutions@charities.org and we’ll set it up on your behalf.

  2. Go directly to www.charities.org/hurricane-harvey to contribute to the Fund via credit card.

  3. You can also make a direct contribution to the Fund by emailing us at marcom@charities.org.

By giving to the America’s Charities Disaster Recovery Fund – Hurricane Harvey, your donation dollars are distributed to vetted nonprofits, based on in-depth research conducted by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP). America's Charities will disperse donations as the needs of the disaster dictates, and we'll be in touch every step of the way so you know specifically how your donation has advanced the recovery process. We'll share as many stories and pictures of those nonprofits on the ground that we can. You can read more about our partnership here.

We all instinctively give with our hearts, which means when disaster strikes, we give immediately and intuitively. Yet that doesn’t always help in the long run, and we are not always sure if our donations are really improving the lives of people in need. Our Fund leverages American generosity—your generosity—by enabling immediate donations and using CDP’s expert analysis to best determine how those funds should be allocated to vetted charities over the long-term.

Thank you for your contribution.


Upcoming Webinar: August 29, 2017 • 3:30 PM EST / 2:30 PM CST

"Hurricane Harvey Recovery: How Donors Can Help"

Find out how to allocate resources—human, financial, and technical—to meet the needs of Hurricane Harvey-affected communities. Presented by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy, with generous support from The UPS Foundation, CDP President & CEO Bob Ottenhoff will moderate the discussion. Program panelists are still being finalized and will include representatives from FEMA, Texas VOAD, and a Texas funder.

Register Now!

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America's Charities inspires employees and organizations to support the causes they care about. We help nonprofits fundraise unrestricted, sustainable dollars through the workplace, and we help employers achieve their giving, engagement, and social impact goals. We do this to bring more resources to the nonprofits that are changing our world.

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  • Charities ­– We help charities fundraise recurring, unrestricted, sustainable dollars through the workplace. Click here for a printable list of our members.
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  • We offer a full suite of employee giving and engagement tools, including easy-to-use workplace giving technology platforms ranging from a straightforward, out-of-the-box option, to a comprehensive platform that integrates matching gifts, employee volunteering, cause campaigns, and more. Each of our solutions is tailored to fit an employer's specific needs and social impact goals, and deliver personalized, highly social online giving experiences.
  • We generate sustainable unrestricted financial support for member charities through the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), state and local giving campaigns and private sector workplace giving campaigns.
  • We provide charitable funds management services to nonprofits and private and public sector employers while maintaining a resolute commitment to transparency and accountability.
  • We provide comprehensive consulting services with expertise in employee engagement, corporate social responsibility (CSR), workplace giving program and strategy development, benchmarking, analysis, and more.
  • We help companies support their employees in times of distress and hardship through Employee Assistance Funds (EAFs), also known as Employee Relief Funds or Employee Crisis Funds. By working with us, a company increases its flexibility around the types of hardships the fund can cover and lowers its administrative burdens.

Since 1980, our collective experience and ability to provide the highest level of personal service and expert consulting to our member charities and employer clients has resulted in more than $750 million for more than 25,000 nonprofits through federal, state and local government, and corporate workplace giving programs.

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