Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund

This Saturday, August 25th, will mark one year since Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, resulting in widespread flooding and powerful winds that damaged more than 300,000 buildings, displaced more than 30,000 residents, and claimed 106 lives.

In the immediate aftermath of the storm, our community-led nonprofit partners quickly responded, and they've remained hard at work over the past year to realize a complete recovery for the region with generous support from GlobalGivers like you. To date, 31,657 of you have raised an incredible $5.14 million to support 20 vetted nonprofits that have provided emergency relief in the days and weeks following Hurricane Harvey and have now transitioned into long-term recovery work.

To mark the one-year anniversary of Hurricane Harvey and support vital ongoing recovery efforts, we're launching a new matching campaign that will provide a 100% match to donations to our vetted nonprofit partners continuing to help the people of the Texas Gulf Coast recover and rebuild.

Since our last report, your donation has provided vital support to a wide range of long-term recovery work, with a particular focus on rebuilding homes and ensuring food security to affected families.

• BakerRipley's long-term recovery work in Houston continues on several fronts. Their restoration program is currently helping more than 700 families navigate the repair and rebuilding of their homes, and they've already completed work on 210 homes. Their Neighborhood Restoration Centers have assisted more than 15,000 individuals to develop tailored recovery plans and connected them with the services and resources they need to recover. And over the past year, they've supported more than 16,000 individuals and households with direct financial assistance to help meet basic needs.
• Coalition for the Homeless of Houston/Harris County's Housing for Harvey program successfully transitioned more than 900 emergency shelter residents into housing either at New Hope Housing, Inc’s Residences on Emancipation program or in apartment units.
• Food Bank Rio Grande Valley continues to help sister food banks in Houston, Victoria, Beaumont, and Corpus Christi feed families still coping with the effects of Hurricane Harvey. They've delivered more than 20 truckloads of relief supplies, including more than 2 million pounds of water and food to support tens of thousands of area residents.
• All Hands and Hearts' teams in the Houston and Coastal Bend area are focusing on rebuilding area homes, and have completed 15 home rebuilds to date, with another six homes currently in progress. Their staff has also been hard at work rebuilding classrooms and wheelchair ramps at the Rhodes School in northeast Houston, a public charter school that serves 1,100 students from low-income areas across the city.
• Over the last three months, S.H.A.P.E. Community Center in Houston has assisted more than a dozen families and individuals with temporary housing, home repair, building supplies, and direct financial assistance.
• Food Bank of the Golden Crescent, serving Calhoun, Colorado, DeWitt, Goliad, Gonzales, Jackson, Lavaca, Matagorda, Refugio, Victoria, and Wharton counties in Texas, has provided 15,000 meals to families facing hunger due to the effects of Hurricane Harvey.
• Trusted World Foundation is teaming up with local partners to perform mold inspections for homeowners without insurance and provide replacement appliances and bedding to families in need.
• Target Hunger continues to provide disaster relief and recovery support to neighborhoods in northeast Houston, focusing on food assistance. Over the first five months of this year, they've served 3,600 individuals and anticipate that 2,500 residents will continue to need food assistance going forward.
• So far in 2018, Texas Diaper Bank has distributed more than 1.5 million diapers, 2.6 million sanitary wipes, and 24,000 other baby items to Harvey-affected residents in the Coastal Bend area.
• IsraAID's staff has been working in Houston and Harris County to identify vulnerable populations and higher-risk communities and households in order to support more efficient, cost-effective, and larger-scale recovery efforts, as well as determine gaps that need to be addressed in order to improve community resilience ahead of future natural disasters.
• Direct Relief continues to provide medicines and supplies to healthcare facilities in Harvey-affected areas and recently launched a new Hurricane Community Health Fund to provide cash grants to free and charitable clinics in Texas to assist with ongoing relief activities and ensure financial stability.

Thank you again for your generous support of our Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund, and for making the smart decision to donate cash to fund an effective, community-led approach to disaster recovery. We'll be back in your inbox in the coming months with more stories of progress toward a full recovery for the people of the Texas Gulf Coast.

Warmly,
Will Frechette + the GlobalGiving Team