The impacts from any natural disaster during the COVID-19 crisis will be magnified by the spread of the virus. Our HDR program focus will be on mitigating the amplifying effects of COVID-19 as part of our humanist response.

Humanist Disaster Recovery (HDR) serves as a focal point for the humanist response to major natural disasters and complex humanitarian crises all over the world. For FBB to coordinate such humanist response, the event must meet a well-developed set of criteria.

The HDR program has two primary components:

Disaster Response: in response to a natural disaster, we raise funds to aid in disaster recovery to

provide financial support to secular organizations working locally to meet the needs of recovering survivors.

provide recovering communities with trained humanist volunteers.

Call to Action: in the case of a humanitarian crisis, FBB researches and shares ways for humanists to make an impact on the crisis. This often includes fundraising for a secular organization that is working to mitigate the crisis.

Grant beneficiaries are rigorously vetted to ensure they meet FBB’s standards for efficiency, effectiveness, and financial transparency. The post-disaster recovery landscape is complex, but we prioritize nonprofits that are well-established, integrate sustainability and mitigation techniques into their work, and empower local communities throughout long-term recovery.

During an HDR response, this page provides: