Providing long-term services after major disasters

Disaster Mitigation and Preparedness

“…As important social service providers, nonprofit organizations are not only a critical link to the nation’s welfare state, (Salamon, 1995; 2003; Smith & Lipsky, 1993), they also play key roles in the nation’s disaster preparedness and response efforts (Vita & Morley, 2007), especially in view of the public sectors’ evolving role and often sluggish involvement in disaster response (Kapucu & Wart, 2006). For example, although the response to Hurricane Katrina was hampered by limitations in “resources, equity, accountability, and coordination,” Gajewski, Bell, Lein and Angel (2011) characterized the response by nonprofit and faith-based organizations as “highly motivated, flexible, and creative” (p. 289).…”

“…For example, although the response to Hurricane Katrina was hampered by limitations in “resources, equity, accountability, and coordination,” Gajewski, Bell, Lein and Angel (2011) characterized the response by nonprofit and faith-based organizations as “highly motivated, flexible, and creative” (p. 289). To others, the effects of hurricanes Katrina and Rita further demonstrated the importance of nonprofit organizations to communities as they rose to the challenge of not only responding to flood victims but also providing food and shelter to hurricane victims (Auer & Lampkin, 2006; Vita & Morley, 2007).…”

“…In the aftermath of hurricanes Katrina and Rita, research has primarily focused on the roles nonprofit organizations played in Hurricane Katrina relief efforts (Pipa, 2006), with an emphasis on the new roles they play as the nature of their services changed in response to emergent needs (Auer & Lampkin, 2006; NCCS, 2005; Vita & Morley, 2007). Additional attention has also been paid to their roles in cross-sector collaborations (Kapucu, 2007; Simo & Bies, 2007; Sylves, 2008-9; Waugh & Streib, 2006), and the nature of volunteering in disaster relief (Rotolo & Berg, 2010).…”

A Latent Resilience Capacity: Individual and Organizational Factors Associated with Public Library Managers’ Willingness to Engage in Post‐Disaster Response and Recovery

“…Disaster scholars largely have focused on charting the behavior of organized response to disasters among voluntary organizations such as faith‐based and nonprofit organizations (Auer and Lampkin, ; Vita and Morely, ). Little analytic work, however, has systematically examined the roles of public libraries as perceived by their managers prior to a major event.…”