By Allison Conroe | Senior Associate, Disaster Response
In the past two years, your donations to the Hawaii Wildfire Relief Fund have supported 22 deeply rooted organizations as they do the long-term work of recovering community-led systems to the island of Maui. Thank you for believing in and funding this work that does so much.
Donations mean restoration of local ecosystems to recover and become more fire-proof, people accessing culturally-appropriate healthcare and community healing services, and brilliant community housing solutions get funded. Your support also ensured survival—connecting water, food, shelter, and other items necessary for daily living to the people displaced by the fires.
Partners like The Lahaina Community Land Trust (LCLT) and Roots Reborn continue to reimagine what renewal and recovery looks like when people are placed above profit. Read more about how our partners are building a strong web of disaster collectivism on Maui with a focus on collective well-being.
We are now preparing to send one final grant round to our partners in Maui whose work remains far from over. As recovery work from the fires continues, these community leaders are also enacting the next phase in the disaster response cycle: mitigation and preparedness. This is the time for sustainment—for supporting fire-mitigated ecosystems, reallocating land into local housing programs and keeping culturally-relevant forms of communal healing strong.
These long-term solutions are about keeping communities whole, because Maui’s future is still on the line. Our final grant round can be supported with a donation until DATE.
Thank you for joining us in one more push for the people shaping Maui’s recovery with such meaningful solutions.
With gratitude,
Alli + The GlobalGiving Team
All Nonprofit Partners Who Have Received Grants from this Fund to Date:
Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Centers
Kula Community Watershed Alliance
Maui Mutual Aid Fund, led by Maui Rapid Response
Regenerative Education Centers
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When a disaster strikes, recovery efforts led by people who live and work in affected communities are often overlooked and underfunded. GlobalGiving is changing this reality. Since 2004, we've been shifting decision-making power to crises-affected communities through trust-based grantmaking and support.
We make it easy, quick, and safe to support people on the ground who understand needs in their communities better than anyone else.
They were there long before the news cameras arrived, and they’ll be there long after the cameras leave. They know how to make their communities more resilient to future disasters, and they’re already hard at work. GlobalGiving puts donations and grants directly into their hands. Because the status quo—which gives the vast majority of funding to a few large organizations—doesn’t make sense.
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