💙 AMERICORPS MONDAY 💙 SBP is excited to welcome Craven County Disaster Recovery Alliance back as an AmeriCorps placement site! CCDRA was a placement site back four years ago. An AmeriCorps member through that program who served in 2019-2020, Kristy Kulberg, is now CCDRA’s Director of Operations! She shares about her experience: “Hurricane Florence severely damaged my home with nearly 6 inches of flood waters and roof damage. The volunteers from another organization helped me find peace, begin recovery, build resiliency, and get back to being myself again. I wanted to pay that forward, so I began looking for a job in disaster recovery. The 10 months I served as an AmeriCorps member with SBP was wonderful. I will never forget meeting that first homeowner. She was so full of heartache, hopelessness, and the stress had clear impacts on her physical health and appearance. We were able to have her home repaired, and by the time it was complete, that homeowner had a new-found smile, was full of laughter, had the color back in her face, and a bright shine in her eye. I didn’t have to just hope her life could change…I was able to help her life change. It’s powerful. I never thought my life could be changed twice in a matter of a year…the first time, it dragged me to the depths of despair, and the second time, it found my new career.” We are hiring two AmeriCorps members to serve with CCDRA starting August 27. Click here for details: https://lnkd.in/gNxsFXaQ
SBP
Non-profit Organizations
New Orleans, LA 8,045 followers
Shrinking time between disaster and recovery.
About us
SBP is a national social impact organization dedicated to empowering communities to shrink the time between disaster and recovery by rebuilding homes, increasing preparedness and resilience, and improving systems to serve the needs of all Americans better. We take a holistic approach to combating natural disasters—increasing the readiness and resilience of communities before they happen and streamlining rebuilding and recovery after. SBP started months after Hurricane Katrina. Liz McCartney, a teacher, and Zack Rosenburg, a lawyer, left their homes in Washington, D.C., to volunteer to support the recovery effort in New Orleans. In March 2006, they co-founded SBP in the St. Bernard Parish southeast of New Orleans, where Katrina left 68,000 people homeless. Since those early years, hundreds of thousands of generous volunteers, AmeriCorps members, investors, donors, and tireless employees have helped SBP become a national disaster resilience and recovery leader. Utilizing the Toyota Production System and trained AmeriCorps members, SBP has rebuilt homes for more than 6,300+ families with the help of 150,000 volunteers in 14 communities across the U.S. and the Bahamas since 2006. To learn more, visit www.sbpusa.org
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http://www.sbpusa.org
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- Non-profit Organizations
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- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- New Orleans, LA
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- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2006
- Specialties
- Rebuilding, Volunteering, Construction, Veterans programs, Affordable housing options, Diaster recovery, Disaster Resiliency, Risk Mitigation, nonprofit, and Climate Change
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2645 Toulouse Street
New Orleans, LA 70119, US
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Earlier this week our Director of Disaster Assistance Programs, Claire Balsley, MPH, joined FEMA IA Deputy Director, Dr. Liz Asche and DHS Director for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Marcus Coleman, for a VOISE partner call to discuss the importance of helping survivors navigate complex legal challenges arising from disasters.
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What if you didn’t have to wait years to repair your home after a disaster? SBP’s Recovery Acceleration Fund (RAF) is a replicable, scalable disaster recovery funding model to assist low-income homeowners who don’t have the means to repair or rebuild their homes on their own. By financing home repairs today and awaiting reimbursement, RAF can set a new standard for disaster recovery by quickly and predictably returning families to the affordable homes they already own. Learn more about RAF at https://lnkd.in/gJik8D7j or click the link in our bio.
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Our new website lays out more clearly than ever our holistic approach to combating natural disasters. SBP’s Programs and Innovations serve to increase the readiness and resilience of communities before disasters happen and streamline rebuilding and recovery after. To learn more, visit our What We Do page at sbpusa.org/what-we-do/
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Tomorrow our Director of Disaster Assistance Programs Claire Balsley, MPH will be an executive speaker for FEMA's Disaster Legal Services and Advocacy webinar! See the post below for more information and to sign up:
Join our Voluntary Agency Liaisons and the DHS Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships for a webinar on the importance of helping survivors navigate complex legal challenges arising from disasters tomorrow, July 10, at 2PM ET. Register in advance and use the passcode “FEMAVAL” for access into the webinar: https://lnkd.in/eDnJYjdN More info. ⤵
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Last week we proudly announced the launch of our brand new website. This week we'd like to highlight some of the incredible new features that we worked hard to implement, starting with our Resource Hub! The hub hosts our collection of past and upcoming trainings, preparedness and recovery resources, and an intuitive design to help you find what you need. Discover our new resource hub: https://lnkd.in/gCxjGU-J
Resource Hub - SBP
https://www.sbpusa.org
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BIG NEWS: SBP has a BRAND NEW website! For many months, our team has been hard at work not only designing a new look for the site, but also building it on a best-in-class platform to better serve new visitors as well as our community of donors, clients, volunteers, and partners. Our new website will help us raise awareness about our mission—and tell our story more powerfully. It will also help us engage more meaningfully with supporters, partners, and the communities we serve. Visit sbpusa.org today to get help, learn more about our innovative programs, explore our resource hub, or take action to help SBP shrink the time between disaster and recovery!
Disaster Resilience, Recovery & Relief Resource | SBPUSA.ORG
https://www.sbpusa.org
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✨ VOLUNTEER SPOTLIGHT ✨ In June we were fortunate to have the returning volunteer group, Shirts Across America, join us to help rebuild homes in New Orleans. Coming all the way from Seattle, Washington, these high school students took on the heat and humidity as they were determined to make a difference during their stay. Thank you volunteers!!
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Have you checked out our YouTube channel lately? Hurricane season is officially here and our Prepare team has an extensive playlist of webinar recordings, including tips on how to prepare for hurricanes and floods. Discover the playlist: https://lnkd.in/gkHqjVAy
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