When a disaster hits, our volunteers are ready to meet the needs of survivors as quickly and efficiently as possible. Our incredible volunteers are our lifeline – whether they are first responders helping survivors salvage belongings and clean up immediately after a disaster, or our weekly warehouse volunteers who help inventory, sort and compile buckets.

One of DRAW’s values is our “nimbility”, or the ability to get exactly what is needed into the hands of the people who need it as quickly as possible. Because of this, DRAW has, over time, honed our supply list to have the exact resources needed in the immediate aftermath of a storm. We then assemble these supplies into buckets tailored for each disaster, whether that be tornadoes, floods, hurricanes, or wildfires. Our operations are then set up to get these to the communities hit by storms in the first 24-48 hours after the disaster, wherever the storm is in the U.S.