Video message from David Campbell, Executive Director – July 2009

As volunteers you know first-hand the importance and effectiveness the HODR model has on disaster-affected communities. Whether on- or off-project we hope you’ll support our work by becoming a Monthly Donor. Don’t forget that for every $1 you give through Monthly Giving our anonymous donor will give $2 through August 2009, tripling the impact of [...]

Video message from Stef to Project Gonaives Volunteers

A Note from the Executive Director

HODR Family, Your HODR management group held our semi-annual get-together the week before last at my home in Carlisle, MA, culminating in a successful “Online All Hands” meeting on Friday which about 30 of you attended; the one-hour video replay is available here. We discussed lessons learned from recent activities; Haiti Project Director Stef Chang [...]

Video: Online All Hands Meeting

Hi Everyone, Thanks for joining us on the first Online All Hands Meeting – whether you sent in questions, watched, chatted, emailed comments….however you were able to participate it was great to talk to you all! For those of you who couldn’t join, you can see the video below! As we talked about in the [...]

All Hands Online & Hang-out in Boston

Join HODR on Friday, May 29 for our first Online All Hands Meeting, and on Saturday, May 30 to hang out in Boston! As a new way to stay engaged with HODR volunteers and supporters we’re holding an Online All Hands Meeting – a live streaming video broadcast with chat capability for the HODR Team [...]

Corporate disaster relief: Best practices and lessons learned

Please click here if you haven’t been automatically redirected to the Boston College Center for Corporate Citizenship’s article featuring HODR and corporate disaster relief best practices. If you are interested in becoming a corporate partner with HODR please visit our Corporate Partnerships page and email Andrew Kerr at Andrew@HODR.org for more information.

Mena Star: Hands On Touches Mena

Hands On Touches Mena by Andy Philpot Mena Star, Thursday 7, 2009 Hands On Disaster Response (HODR), a volunteer-driven, 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, launched Project Mena in response to the recent tornado and is leading volunteers to lend a helping hand to those in need. HODR volunteers have assisted 17 households in the recovery, removing debris, [...]

Arkansas: Project Mena Final Report

On Thursday April 9, 2009 an EF-3 Tornado devastated downtown Mena, AR damaging over 600 homes, killing 3 people. Mena, a small town nestled in the Ouachita National Forest, suffered significant structure, tree, and roofing damage caused by the high winds and pounding rains. Two days after the event HODR’s Assessment Team was on the [...]

Linkin Park’s Music for Relief Partners with HODR

Music for Relief (MFR) partnered with HODR to support tornado-hit Mena, Arkansas in May, 2009. MFR contributed $5,000 to HODR’s Project Mena, helping us bring bring direct assistance to those in need as volunteers removed debris and down trees and helped the community recover. Founded by members of the band Linkin Park, Music for Relief [...]

Cedar Rapids Gazette: Helping Hands Know the Ropes

VOLUNTEERING: Helping Hands Know the Ropes Humbled from help last year, Palo pair answer Arkansas call By Molly Rossiter The Gazette PALO — Dave and Julie Schoettmer kept thinking two things as the hordes of volunteers helped clean and repair their flood-ravaged home last June. The first, Julie Schoettmer said, was “how very difficult it [...]