disaster relief

The Red Cross has been busy across the nation and locally in 2024. We will meet several folks from the Northeastern New York Chapter of the American Red Cross to discuss the rise in the number of large-scale responses, the role of volunteers and the rising costs of assistance and shelters.

Zach Iscol served in Iraq as a Marine and is now commissioner of New York City’s Department of Emergency Management. “We are always activated. We’re always responding to stuff,” he says. How to prepare for the worst.

Our Falling into Place series spotlights the important work of -and fosters collaboration between- not-for-profit organizations in our communities;…

Two western Massachusetts municipalities with large Puerto Rican populations are prepping for a possible large influx of people from the devastated…

People in and around Houston, Texas have begun the arduous work of cleaning and reconstructing the city as floodwaters from Hurricane Harvey have receded.…

After Hurricane Harvey's devastation in Texas and Hurricane Irma en route to Florida after tearing up parts of the Caribbean, the American Red Cross has…

Natural disasters don't matter for the reasons we think they do. They generally don't kill a huge number of people. Most years more people kill themselves…

Congressman Chris Gibson of New York’s 19th District was still active military when Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast 10 years ago.In today’s…

After seven years of service as the president of Tulane University, Scott Cowen watched the devastation of his beloved New Orleans at the hands of…

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has proposed a plan for the use of $1.7 billion in federal storm-damage funds.Most of the money is going to homeowners and…