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What does it mean to live through disaster, and what does it take to move forward?This sizzle reel offers a glimpse of How to Disaster the podcast from After The Fire USA. Through conversations with survivors, local leaders, and experts, we share practical guidance and hard-won experience from communities rebuilding after megafires.We hope you enjoy it, and that it gives you a sense of what this podcast is: a place to learn, prepare, laugh, cry, and remember that no one should have to navigate recovery alone.🎙️🎯🎙️🎯🎙️🎯🎙️🎯🎙️🎯How to Disaster is part of After the Fire USA’s nonprofit mission to make recovery knowledge accessible to the people who need it. Sponsorships help sustain this work while bringing valuable, trusted information to survivors and communities preparing for what comes next. Sponsorship support may be tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.Watch, subscribe, share, and reach out if your organization would like to sponsor this work: [email protected]#HowToDisaster #AfterTheFireUSA #WildfireRecovery #FireSurvivors [email protected]youtu.be/Xfrc51GIdxg?si=vw9yED53UBo9-6Fo#HowToDisaster #AfterTheFireUSA #WildfireRecovery #FireSurvivors
How to Disaster | Disaster Survivors on Recovery, Resilience & the Road Home
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Day two, and the final day, of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York.The conversations have ranged widely across sectors, organizations, and some of the most consequential questions in front of us right now. One theme is unmistakable: AI is a major focus, as it should be.What has been particularly interesting is watching that conversation carry across very different spaces, from Grindr (yes, you read that right) to LinkedIn, energy investment, humanitarian response, philanthropy, and beyond.The technology is moving quickly. The more important conversation is how we use it responsibly and practically to solve real problems for real people.We’re very thankful After The Fire USA CEO, Jennifer Gray Thompson, had the opportunity to be in these rooms, listen, learn, and bring the perspective of communities navigating long-term disaster recovery.Thank you to the Clinton Global Initiative for the invitation and for creating space for conversations that cross sectors and challenge us to think bigger about what comes next.#CGI2026 #AfterTheFireUSA #ArtificialIntelligence #DisasterRecovery
This week After The Fire USA CEO Jennifer Gray Thompson is in NYC for the Clinton Global Initiative with leaders from across the globe. We are discussing laying out "an affirmative vision for the future, building trust, and driving action amidst rising global division, turmoil, and government funding cuts."Key Topics: Responsible AI, climate resilience, health equity, democracy, human rights, and innovative financing.We were assigned to a great working group that spent most of today sharing ideas and actionable outcomes. We appreciate the multiple sectors and viewpoints in the room, and are looking forward to our next steps together.TLDR: We are the ones we've been waiting for. We have to build what comes next together.#AftertheFireUSA
After The Fire USA is very proud to share this short film about our work created by Ralph Bloemers and opened the 2026 Wildfire Leadership Summit. The film features three community leaders: Tony Hocking, Palisades Fire Survivor, Zaire Calvin, Eaton Fire Survivor, and Kaliko Storer, Lahaina Fire Survivor. All three have stepped up to lead community recovery alongside of so many truly remarkable people. We are honored to walk alongside of them and grateful they would share both their experience as survivors as well as what working with After the Fire USA has meant for their community.The community is always the hero of every fire recovery. Jennifer Gray Thompson talks about the why and how of our work.We are unicorn in so many ways. The best way to learn about our work is to hear about the impact from those we've helped and continue to help. It is a deeply human experience for all involved. Many thanks to filmmaker and friend, Ralph Bloemers, and his crew of shooters, especially the always lovely Keegan Gibbs. This year is especially pivotal for organization as we are determined to find long-term sustainable funding so we can be mission ready for any community, anywhere, anytime. Please take a moment to watch this film and share the message and the mission of our wor#AftertheFireUSAr#WLS2026S#recoverrebuildreimaginea#worstclubbestpeopleeople
Until You’re Home - After the Fire Stands With You
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When fire ends, recovery begins.Until You’re Home follows wildfir...
Closing Keynote: Maui's Journey of Recovery and Renewal.Josiah Nishita, Managing Director ofCounty of Maui Maui, closes the 2026 Summit by looking back at the lessons shared over the last three days and where Maui stands three years into recovery.Again and again, it comes back to the same thing: we cannot do this alone. Recovery takes community, collaboration, and a willingness to work together, especially when things get hard. Recovery only moves as fast as the speed of trust, and as Josiah reminded us, the common enemy cannot become each oth#WildfireLeadershipSummitu#WLS2026S#AftertheFireUSAreUSA
Money That Moves: Capital, Loans, and the Speed of Recovery.This conversation looks at the financial tools homeowners need to rebuild to a more resilient standard, how to calculate the gap between available funding and the real cost of recovery, and where additional capital can come from.It also looks at the need to activate lenders across the country so communities have access to better loan products and financing options when disaster strikes.Manny Abascal, Partner, Latham & Watkins LLPAbby Ross, CEO, Resiliency CompanyDustin Bramell, Co-Founder and CEO, PillarModerated by Kate Bulger, Vice President, Money Management International.#WildfireLeadershipSummit #WLS2026 #AfterTheFireUSA #RecoverRebuildReimagine