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Mobilizing Your Rotary District in a Disaster
From Catastrophe to Collaboration
Rotary Districts 7230, 7250, 7260, 7490, 7500 and 7640!
Bonnie Sirower, District Governor, Rotary District 7490
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Mobilizing Your District for a Catastrophe: A Four Step Process
• Before Disaster Strikes• Communications with your District and the
world• Collections of Cash, Gift Cards and Supplies• Collaboration with other organizations
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• Appoint a Disasters Chair• Find out about local planning groups• Prepare an e-mail to go out to all of your
members to prepare them for the disaster • Appoint a Public Relations Chair• Set up a 501(c)(3) organization to accept
donations
Before Disaster Strikes
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Appoint a Disasters Chair
Peter Wells, Park Ridge Rotary Club
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E-mail to All Clubs in the District Prior to the Storm
Good afternoon, Rotarians. There is an increasing probability that a serious multi-day storm will impact our District early next week. We should expect significant flooding, power outages, transportation and communication disruptions, and property damage. Last year, many of our towns were severely impacted by Hurricane Irene, but working together as Rotarians, we were able to make a significant difference.
Personally, I urge you to review your disaster preparedness for your family today. If you don't have a checklist of things to think about, you can put one together by reviewing http://www.ready.gov/ and http://www.redcross.org/prepare. We can not take care of others unless we have taken care of our own first. As Rotarians, think then about friends, neighbors and fellow Rotarians who may need assistance preparing for and being looked after during this storm. Seniors, people living alone or with medical conditions might especially appreciate your help. You may also want to check with your local municipality to learn of volunteer opportunities to prepare for, assist during and clean up after the storm. I have already been in touch with Peter Wells, who is serving as our Disaster Chair this year. Peter is keeping tabs on the situation. Although he will not be around during the end of next week, he has also been in touch with our Chief of Staff and last year's Disaster Chair, Ray Falcon, about steps we must take. Peter's phone number is 201-248-6443. We can do far more together as a Rotary club than any of us can do alone. You may want to use the weekend to organize your Club to take care of each other first and then look for opportunities to be of service to others in your community. Your first step should be how you will all be in contact with each other. Your second step should be how you will all be in contact with each other should we lose internet, cell and/or land-line service. If District resources are needed, contact me at 201-446-1814 or [email protected] and I will organize assistance as best as we are able.
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Catastrophe!October 28-29, 2012
Hurricane Sandy Strikes…
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Where Hurricane Sandy Hit…
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Breezy Point in Queens
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Breezy Point in Queens
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Breezy Point in Queens
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Breezy Point in Queens
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Staten Island
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Staten Island
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Staten Island
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Staten Island
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Staten Island
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Atlantic City
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Roads and Transit Trashed
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New York City/ Brooklyn
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Belle Harbor, L.I.
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Lindenhurst, NY
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Hoboken, NJ
Jersey City, NJ
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Moonachie, NJ
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Seaside Heights, NJ
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• Contact Rotary Resources:RI Disaster Staff – Amanda RudgeDisaster AID USARotary Disaster Action Group: Leigh Readdy
•Use Facebook and Linked-In to Communicate with your Governor Class and your District• Set up your own website for the catastrophe• Create (or use) a (501)(c)(3) organization• Communicate within your own District
Setting Up Communications
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• Find a local restaurant or café (or Rotarian) who hasn’t lost power) and work from there.
• Charge your I-pad and I-phone in these places
• If possible, have a generator ready, with plenty of gasoline.
Working without Power , Cable or Phone
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• Contact Disaster Aid USA's team leader, Kenneth Larry Agee or Bob Grill at [email protected] .
• https://www.facebook.com/DisasterAidUSA
• Team DASUA is currently working with Serve Moore Organization which is a partnership between 5 churches. ( http://www.servemoore.com/ ) The city has been divided in to 10 zones for aid organization purposes. Serve Moore is strategically working with the City of Moore to man and direct aid in these zones and supply the volunteers to accomplish the mission. Team DAUSA has been helping in 3 capacities'. The first is we have a chainsaw and debris removal team at their disposal and have been deployed to 4 different zones in 2 days to help fill gaps in their need. Disaster Rotarian Action Group: [email protected]
Contact Rotary Resources
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• Contact Amanda Rudge at Rotary International’s Disaster Staff
• Contact Leigh Readdy at Disasters Rotary Action Group (presentation to follow)
Contact Rotary Resources
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Good morning, everyone. I finally have e-mail, but no phone, either cell or landline. I apologize for
not reaching out yesterday- I had no e-mail until late last night and still can't access our District
website. Even now, e-mail service is sporadic. I have heard from some of you in the worst-hit
areas. I see that Bayonne, Hoboken, Jersey City, South Bergen and Mid-Bergen areas,
Meadowlands area, Jersey City area are still under water. The rest of us are dealing with downed
limbs and lack of power, most of us until Monday.
My first question is, is everyone safe? My next question is, how can we help?
We have received offers of help from as far away as Russia, Turkey and Canada. What do the
members of your club and towns need to help get things back to normal? We had an offer to send
Shelter boxes -can anyone use those?
Do not call, as my cell phone still has no service
Communicate with your District Using E-mail and Facebook
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Communication – Reaching Out to Rotary and the World
• www.nynjrotary.org• E-mails from Governors far
away and to all Governors who called
• E-mails to our District
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E-mails to Our District • To: all the members of District 7490• We have heard from the Hoboken Club. They need diesel fuel,
generators, pumps, clothing, bedding, appliances, cleaning supplies and non-perishable food. If you have anything you wish to donate please deliver it to Calisto Bertin's warehouse. We also know of trouble for the South Bergen, North Hudson, Mid-Bergen and maybe the Palisades and Jersey City Rotary Clubs, so please know that your donation will be appreciated.
• Those wishing to financially donate can send checks to the Walter D. Head Foundation of Rotary District 7490 c/o Calisto Bertin, Bertin Engineering, 66 Glen Avenue, Glen Rock, New Jersey 07452. Please mark in the memo line; Sandy Relief. Once we take care of the needs of our District we will send any extra monies to our fellow Districts 7500, 7640, 7250 and 7230, which were all very hard hit.
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E-mails to other districts
• Hi, Woody.• Bob Grill is sending trucks up tomorrow evening. We are getting trucks
ready and warehouses ready to receive them. If possible, please get your donations to Bob's group before he leaves tomorrow.
• Bob, gas up before you go. No gasoline here anywhere.
On Nov 4, 2012, at 9:51 AM, "Woody Sadler" <[email protected]> wrote:
Bonnie,• We have 50 flood disaster kits on pallets. The kits were put together by
the Rotary Club of Salem, Va. just for something like this. We are sending them to DG Bob Parkinson in 7620 in Maryland who will be bringing them the rest of the way. It cuts our drive in half. Hopefully we will have more coming. Stay safe!
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More Ways to Communicate
• Ask your local media for help: WCBS News Radio 880 donated 50 10-second spots – “Help Rotary Help Hurricane Sandy victims: Go to www.nynjrotary.org”
• Use Facebook and Linked-In to reach out to Rotarians in your own District and others
• Hold conference calls on a periodic basis with other Districts and with VOAD
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General e-mails to all
• Dear Friends throughout the Rotary world and beyond... It has now been almost a week since Hurricane Sandy attacked New Jersey and New York. All of the seven District governors in the area whose Districts were most affected have been in contact with one another, and
• I would like to give you an update on what has happened to each of our areas, as well as a list of both immediate and long-term needs as we know them now. At Zones 24 and 32's director Bryn Styles’ suggestion, we are all working together to get donated supplies to the right area.
Collections – Getting Supplies, Cash Donations and Gift Cards for those who need them
• Secure warehouses or empty stores: Ask Rotarian Realtors, Store Owners, Factory Owners
• Avoid the Disaster After the Disaster – do not collect used clothing
• Have a place available where pallets can be downloaded and forklift trucks are available
• Work with your local Volunteer Agency (Bergen Volunteers Center) to get volunteers other than Rotarians for sorting and deliveries
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• 142 Trucks came to our aid from as far away as Vancouver, Orlando, San Diego
• 225 Volunteers – half Rotarians, half not-yet Rotarians
• More than $680,000 in cash donations• 120 cars and trucks went out in a 300-mile radius• Rotarians unloaded trucks
In our area….
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Route 17 South Collection Center
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Route 17 South Collection
Center
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Route 17 North Collection Center
Pallets and fork-lift trucks available
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• Four warehouses were filled and emptied five times• Countless dollars worth of supplies were donated:
cleaning supplies• Only new clothing could be distributed – make
arrangements with Salvation Army or Goodwill for donation of used clothing - 84,000 lbs. of used clothing collected was donated to those gorups
Collections in our Area
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• Recruit volunteer drivers • Contact local Rotary clubs through their District
Governors or Presidents to determine just what is needed
• Have out of area volunteers bring gasoline• Use gift cards or give drivers gift cards for gasoline
purchases.
Set Up a Delivery System
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Loading Up and Delivering the Goods
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Down the Shore and out to Long Island
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• In the U.S., set up a 501(c)(3) fundIn our area, cash donations were made to one fund, the Walter D. Head Foundation of Rotary District 7490• Set up a way that districts can wire transfer money to your fund• Set up a PayPal account or other account so that people can
donate online using major credit cards. • Work with RI to set up a Designated Disaster Fund• Set up a system to record all donations and thank all donors• Post donations on special website
Securing Donations of Funds
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• $35,000 in gift card donations received• More than $680,000 in cash donations
received• Evenly split among six most-affected areas,
but any monies raised within a District stayed in that District
Collections –Cash and Gift Card Donations in our area
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Join your local VOAD: Voluntary Organizations Helping in Disasters:http://www.nvoad.org/
National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster (VOAD) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan membership organization that serves as the forum where organizations share knowledge and resources throughout the disaster cycle—preparation, response, recovery and mitigation—to help communities prepare for and recover from disasters.
The National VOAD coalition includes over 50 of the country’s most reputable national organizations (faith-based, community-based and other non-governmental organizations) and 55 State/Territory VOADs, which represent Local/Regional VOADs and hundreds of other member organizations throughout the country.
Collaborate with Other Organizations
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Local VOAD in District 7490
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• Partner with Rebuilding Together or Habitat for Humanity – Do NOT Go It Alone!
http://rebuildingtogether.org/Home by Home, Block by Block, Rebuilding Together is rebuilding homes and communities nationwide. For almost 25 years, Rebuilding Together has provided extensive home rehabilitation and modification services to homeowners in-need. • http://www.habitat.org/• Recruit a contractor from your District to oversee rebuilding
Rebuilding: Collaborate with Other Organizations
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Set up a Disaster Relief Center
Hurricane Sandy Relief Center in Moonachie, NJ
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Funding the Hurricane Sandy Relief Center in Moonachie
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Collaboration: Rebuilding Together
• District 7490: – Rebuilt and refurbished two firehouses in Little Ferry– Re-equipped Ambulance Corps in Moonachie and
Hoboken– Renovated recreational fields in Secaucus– Now rebuilding and refurbishing of Senior Center in
Moonachie in collaboration with Rebuilding Together - Bergen
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Sandy Santa’s- South Bergen Rotary club brings Christmas to those who had lost everything
Involve your Local Clubs in Rebuilding
South Bergen Thanksgiving Party for Displaced Residents
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Re-building the Little Ferry Firehouses
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Re-building the Little Ferry Firehouses
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Bonnie Sirower, DG District 7490(Bergen, Passaic, Hudson Counties, NJ, USA)[email protected]
Remember: Rotarians are there to help you….
