After the Fire: Recover. Rebuild. Reimagine. Supports CORE Values and Nonpartisanship

Our Commitment to CORE Values
CORE = Community. Opportunity. Respect. Equity. (and Love.)

At After the Fire USA, we lead with love, because love is at the core of recovery. It’s what drives us to show up again and again for communities devastated by megafire. It’s what binds neighbors in grief and in rebuilding. It’s what powers long-term recovery that heals more than structures—it heals people.

 

CORE stands for:

Community: We serve the whole community. Every resident, every family, every business, and every school because recovery belongs to everyone.

Opportunity: We work to ensure that those impacted by disaster, regardless of their starting point, have access to resources, voice, and solutions.

Respect: We recognize and honor the dignity of every individual, treating all survivors and stakeholders with compassion and professionalism.

Equity: We understand that disasters don’t impact everyone equally—and we work to remove barriers that prevent a full and fair recovery.

Love: Not performative, not abstract. Practical love. The kind that listens, stands beside, and keeps showing up until recovery is real.

We serve everyone in fire-impacted communities: regardless of income, race, political affiliation, age, gender identity, religion, ability, documentation status, or any other category used to divide people. We don’t check boxes; we see people. And we stand with them, as they are.

 

This is not political. This is principle.

 

Our Stance on Politics and Advocacy

We are proudly nonpartisan. Not because we avoid hard conversations, but because disaster recovery requires everyone. Megafire does not ask who you voted for. Neither do we.

 

We work with elected officials from both major parties, across federal, state, and local levels, because recovery isn’t about sides—it’s about solutions. Our advocacy in Washington, D.C., and across the country has been bipartisan, consistent, and survivor-focused. We are at the table only to make recovery faster, fairer, and more trauma-informed.

 

Let us be very clear.

We advocate exclusively on behalf of fire-impacted communities and disaster survivors. We do not accept paid lobbying contracts. We do not rent out our platform or our voice. We are not for sale, and we are not pawns.

 

We speak truth to power, regardless of which party holds it, and we fiercely protect the dignity of those we serve. Our presence in any room is driven by one purpose: to bring resources, relief, and reform to communities devastated by megafire. Nothing more, nothing less.

 

Nonpartisan is pro-partnership—and our mission depends on that principle.