Equity in Response, Recovery and Resilence: An Action Report in Five Parts
During the 2022 Jackson water crisis, nonprofits in the City of Jackson, around the State of Mississippi, and across the United States worked to meet the urgent and emergent needs of citizens and communities left without water for weeks. Many of those efforts were uncoordinated–and sometimes redundant–resulting in time and funding not being used in the most efficient ways to address acute and long-term issues.
The Alliance engaged Fahrenheit Creative Group, LLC (FCG) and The Alluvial Collective to facilitate a series of listening sessions with nonprofit and philanthropy professionals in a pre-conference event to our 2023 Nonprofit and Philanthropy Leadership Conference Sparking Hope in the Sector to gather perspectives, share information, and identify pertinent action items to enhance the operational and financial infrastructure to improve equity in local and statewide disaster response, recovery, and resilience efforts.
This action report is organized into five parts, drawing from primary and secondary research conducted.
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