Services

Harness our team’s unique experience in philanthropy, nonprofit leadership and disaster management for strategic and practical solutions to your disaster-related giving.

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Your partner in effective disaster giving

We offer foundations, corporations and individuals a suite of client-centered strategies grounded in four principles:

Fund local.
Prioritize medium- and long-term recovery.
Learn from others.
Stay true to your organizational mission.

We also provide a number of ways to support the work of our grantee partners and other nongovernmental organizations supporting communities affected by disasters.

Explore the ways we can help. Read our Consulting Services brochure.

For foundations, donor-advised funds and corporations

We offer strategic planning, grants management, research and analyses, technical assistance and nongovernmental organizations list curation, tailored to your organizational goals and CSR/ESG needs.

Learn more or contact Sarah Petrin for more information.

For nonprofits

We highly value the work of our grantee partners and other domestic and international nongovernmental organizations working to support people who have been affected by a disaster. There are a few ways that these organizations can connect with us.

Meet our clients

Our clients range in size, mission and structure – from private and community foundations to corporations and donor-advised funds. They all share our commitment to minimizing the effect of disasters and humanitarian crises on communities around the globe through effective disaster philanthropy.

Discover how our team helped these organizations and industry leaders maximized their impact.

“We recommend that funders interested in supporting disaster recovery utilize the services of the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) to design their plans. … [CDP] got to know our overall philanthropic philosophy as well as the Westfield Insurance corporate structure and culture and objectively offered recommendations.”

Gretchen Long
Community Investment Leader
Westfield Insurance Foundation