In May 2024, extreme flooding hit southern Brazil, forcing the evacuation of whole cities as roads and bridges were destroyed. In the aftermath, at least 150 died with hundreds more unaccounted for. With input from the Women in BCM Committee’s…
Tag: Donations After Disasters
Foundation Aids Organization Promoting Preparedness for California Wildfires
One of the DRI Foundation’s primary giving goals is to support communities that are prepared and resilient in the face of disasters. The West Slope Foundation of El Dorado County, CA, also recognizes this goal, and has received financial support…
Post-Storm Aid for Houston Community Development Center
Houston-based Launch Point Community Development Center is among the most recent recipients of support from the DRI Foundation, which provided a donation as part of its Donations After Disasters Program. Launch Point CDC is a community development, resource and information…
Houston Food Bank Receives Foundation Support in Wake of Texas Ice Storm
Following the surprise ice storms that hit Texas in winter of 2021, the Houston Food Bank has received funding from the DRI Foundation as part of its Donations After Disasters giving priority. Founded in 1982, Houston Food Bank is America’s…
Foundation Supports Evacuteer Efforts to Increase Resilience
The DRI Foundation is proud to provide support to Evacuteer, a New Orleans based organization dedicated to creating safe, resilient, sustainable communities throughout southeast Louisiana. Founded in 2009, Evacuteer focuses on what it identifies as the three pillars of sustainability: economy, environment,…
DRI Foundation Donates to Alabama Tornado Recovery
In the aftermath of the tornadoes that hit Lee County, Alabama, on Mar. 3, 2019, causing at least 23 deaths, the DRI Foundation provided a donation to the Community Foundation of East Alabama. CFEA makes strategic grants to assist nonprofit…
Rebuilding and Resilience: Update on the Woolsey Wildfires
Donations from DRI Foundation supporters have been deployed to help the Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation to combat wildfires that started in Woolsey Canyon, CA. Here's an update from Liz Lin, President of the LAFD Foundation: "Thank you very much…
Rebuilding and Resilience: Update on Typhoon Mangkhut Recovery Efforts
The DRI Foundation is proud to support non-profit organizations in communities impacted by disasters to provide crucial assistance. Here is an update on how donations from our supporters have been deployed to help in the Philippines following Super Typhoon Mangkhut,…
Rebuilding and Resilience: Protecting Houston’s Medical Infrastructure
The DRI Foundation is proud to join with non-profit organizations in communities impacted by disasters to provide help where it is needed most. Here’s one example of how donations from our supporters have been deployed. Houston was hit hard in…
DRI Foundation Supports Earthquake Relief in Mexico
In the aftermath of the Sept. 19, 2017 earthquake in Central Mexico, the DRI Foundation has provided financial assistance to the International Community Foundation. The earthquake, which hit on the 32nd anniversary of the historic 1985 Mexico City earthquake, resulted…