How to be Resilient? Local Philanthropy as a Collective Response to Natural Disasters

Activating Community Resilience: The Emergence of COVID-19 Funds Across the United States

“…Available from https://usafacts.org/visualizations/coronavirus-covid-19-spread-map/. f Federal Emergency Management Agency’s report of hurricane, flood, and severe storm (Hwang & Joo, 2020).…”

“…Cultural capital, often a reflection of race and ethnicity, offers a common way to understand issues and may shape preference for forms of collective action that enable resilience activation (Abramson et al, 2015). Thus, racial homogeneity may facilitate collective response to disaster (Aldrich, 2012; Hwang & Joo, 2020). Political capital reflects shared concepts of power and government including preferences for government versus private institutional response to community issues (Paarlberg et al, 2019).…”

Localisation Agenda, Shift the Power and African Philanthropic Models in Burkina Faso, Ghana, Nigeria and Senegal

“…Photo by Tengy Art (Unsplash) However, for a long time, donors seem to have failed to recognise and appreciate the crucial place and role of local organisations including community philanthropic organisations in delivering direct response actions to victims of humanitarian disasters. Although, the extant literature documents how social capital helps in bringing community members together and also enhance their capacity for post-disaster recovery (Aldrich and Meyer, 2015;Hwang and Joo, 2021), the majority of humanitarian aid is often channelled through INGOs, a multilateral agency or a United Nations (UN) agency before reaching local organisations. In some cases, the funds are sub granted to local organisations while in other instances, humanitarian support programmes are sub-contracted to local actors or worst off, local actors are used as implementing agents (Krause, 2014).…”

The Varieties of Nonprofit Organizations and Local Hazard Mitigation Efforts

“…Nonprofit organizations (NPOs) play key roles in disaster context (Eller et al, 2015;Gajewski et al, 2011;Syal et al, 2021). NPOs have consistently provided disaster response services and recovery assistance including clean up, debris removal, data collection, mass feeding, mental health counseling, rebuilding and repair, and recovery planning (Gajewski et al, 2011;Gibbons, 2007;Hwang & Joo, 2021;Luna, 2001;Meriläinen, 2020;Tierney et al, 2001). There also has been increasing involvement and roles of NPOs in the mitigation and preparedness cycles such as developing hazard mitigation measures, creating advocacy groups for mitigation, or initiating mitigation projects (Benson et al, 2001;Chikoto et al, 2013;Meyer-Emerick & Momen, 2003).…”