Test Your Winter Storm Readiness
Oh the weather outside is frightful, which is why it feels like the perfect time to brrrrrrrr-ing you this latest installment in ALAN’s popular “Test Your Disaster Readiness” series. So put on your thinking caps, get your keyboards and phones ready – and let us “snow” how your winter storm preparedness measures up. 1. According […]
Paint Life Grand
Each year at Christmas, my daughter and I buy each other one inexpensive, frivolous gift. This year we somehow both ended up gifting one another coloring books. The book she gave me was of the “paint with water” variety where you reveal the hidden colors on the page by running a water-dipped paintbrush over what […]
The Maui Wildfires: A Whole Community Approach In Moving Donations
Authored by Alexia Nobles In the first few weeks of the Maui wildfire response, a tsunami of product donations flooded the island, overwhelming first responders on the ground. The influx of donations was so large that sorting and distributing came to a virtual standstill, which is where ALAN stepped in. As part of the disaster’s […]
Sing Along With ALAN (A Festive Fundraising Announcement)
It’s almost Christmas – and we all know what that means. So grab a cup of eggnog and get ready to fa la la right along with us as we present this heart-warming rendition of our latest holiday ditty. (Sing to the tune of “We Wish You A Merry Christmas”) We’re holding a year-end […]
I “Do”nate: A Wedding War Story
If I seem to look considerably older than I did at this time last year, there’s a reasonable explanation. I spent the first third of 2023 as the Mother of the Bride. (And if you don’t know why that would prematurely age a person, you clearly don’t have daughters.) I learned a lot through the […]
Oh The Horror (Movie): 5 Important Things Scary Films Can Teach Us About Disaster Relief
A couple weeks ago, one of ALAN’s team members wrote a blog in which she publicly admitted that she’s the kind of person who makes Scooby Doo look brave, at least when it comes to things like watching scary movies. I’m not huge horror movie fan myself (which is why you definitely won’t find me […]
5 Scary Thoughts About Disasters And Disaster Relief (ALAN’s Official Halloween Blog!)
It’s almost Halloween, and if your town is anything like mine, your neighbors’ yards are already littered with ghosts, witches and tombstones. Clearly some of us enjoy giving other people a scare. Just as clearly, some of us enjoy getting a scare. I’m not one of them. I hate haunted houses. I avoid scary movies […]
Hurricane Damage “Meats” Logistics Compassion
In the aftermath of devastating hurricane damage, a non-profit specializing in hunger relief was ready to stage its largest deployment ever and feed close to a million people – even though multiple logistical hurdles like flooded roadways, blocked bridges and a larger-than-anticipated need for supplies stood in its way. Hurricane Ian made landfall in western […]
Test Your Hurricane Readiness
In addition to school being in full swing post Labor Day, September is also National Preparedness Month. Here at ALAN, we’ve already mobilized to help with relief efforts for the Maui wildfires and Hurricane Idalia – and we’re monitoring needs for both Morocco earthquake response and the flooding in Libya. But even after an extremely […]
