New App Will Aid Allocation of Goods After Disasters

February 10, 2014 | Read Time: 1 minute

Donated goods that pour in immediately after a disaster often end up in landfills, yet communities may struggle later to get what they need during months or years of recovery.

Good360, a nonprofit that collects and distributes products that corporations want to give to charities, is building a mobile application, DisasterRecovery360, to help make the right goods available at the right time.

The app will let nonprofits working in disaster areas request the items they need at different stages of a disaster so individual donors and businesses can help fulfill those needs at the appropriate time.

The project recently won $850,000 in Verizon’s Powerful Answers competition.

For more information: Go to disasterrecovery360.org.

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Sarah Frostenson

Contributor

Sarah Frostenson was the lead analyst for four annual projects at The Chronicle of Higher Education, including: Corporate Giving, Foundations, Endowments and Donor-Advised Funds. She built the databases powering many of The Chronicle’s interactives. Her reporting included: data trends in the nonprofit sector, donor-advised funds as vehicles of charitable wealth, transparency of foundations and digitization of nonprofit data.

NICOLE WALLACE

Features Editor

Nicole Wallace is features editor of the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She has written about innovation in the nonprofit world, charities’ use of data to improve their work and to boost fundraising, advanced technologies for social good, and hybrid efforts at the intersection of the nonprofit and for-profit sectors, such as social enterprise and impact investing.Nicole spearheaded the Chronicle’s coverage of Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts on the Gulf Coast and reported from India on the role of philanthropy in rebuilding after the South Asian tsunami. She started at the Chronicle in 1996 as an editorial assistant compiling The Nonprofit Handbook.Before joining the Chronicle, Nicole worked at the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs and served in the inaugural class of the AmeriCorps National Civilian Community Corps.A native of Columbia, Pa., she holds a bachelor’s degree in foreign service from Georgetown University.