Natural Disasters
Featured Alumni
Name:Luke Blount Project: Hurricane Ike Relief
Age: 23
State: TX
Year Awarded: 2009
Luke coordinates volunteers in Galveston, and has already helped over 1500 volunteers to donate over 20,000 hours of labor and helped over 125 homeowners to restore their homes
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Name:Ryan WhiteProject: Community Emergency Response Cache
Age: 15
State: WA
Year Awarded: 2009
Ryan and other volunteers are building an emergency cache in the center of their town that would be accessible to all town-members and local CERT teams, as a method of first response
see more grant alumniHurricane Ida heads for U.S.
Downgraded to a tropical storm on Monday morning, Ida is expected to come ashore within the next 24 hours.
Despite the downgrade, officials are warning resident of the Gulf Coast not to take the storm lightly. Ida is expected to dump up to eight inches of rain in some parts of the affected area. The hurricane center also warned of "large and destructive waves" caused by the storm.
"A dangerous storm surge will raise water levels by as much as 4 to 6 feet above ground level along the coast near and to the east of where the center makes landfall," the center said.
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Featured Alumni
Name:Sarah MathysProject: Natural Disaster Knitting
Age: 11
State: TX
Year Awarded: 2009
Sarah and her friends, along with her school’s knitting club, started a project to knit sweaters, hats, and scarves for victims of hurricanes, displaced from their homes.
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Name:Grace LiProject: Book drives and book fair(s) to be held to help Earthquake victims in Sichuan, China
Age: 14
State: TX
Year Awarded: 2009
Grace organized book drives and fundraising activities to collect English books and raise funds to help high schools in Sichuan after the 2008 earthquake
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Name:Garret BowmanProject: Home Clean-up Kits for fire Victims
Age: 23
State: MI
Year Awarded: 2009
Garrett is distributing fire clean-up kits to families who have experienced a house fire in order to prevent permanent damage and aid in the recovery process.
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| Organization: | DoSomething.org (us) |
| Date: | 10/31/09 to 01/31/10 |
| Location: | New York, NY 10003 |
| Contact Name: | george weiner, CTO |
| Contact Email: | george@dosomething.org |
| Contact Phone: | 212-254-2390 x230 |
| Website: | http://www.dosomething.org/forum |
