Wild fires have devastated hundreds of Our Town’s local structures, burned tens of thousands of acres of forest and forced hundreds to evacuate their homes. While your house might have been spared, many families have been left homeless or forced to leave the area as refugees. The total cost to the community, including firefighter fees to call in outside support and new funding needed to rebuild our schools and community centers is in the tens of millions.
Surely you have heard the response on the national news of Americans and even our international community donating to help. Those funds, however, are channeled through large charity conglomerations that can take weeks and sometimes months to get to the places and people that need it most.
Our Organization is a local 501(c)(3) charity with a 15 year track record of emergency support that is directing our focus on the fire crisis. A donation to us has an immediate and substantial impact on Our Town, going directly to the vetted families and referred community members that need help the quickest. What is more, as we are nearly entirely volunteer operated, more than 95% of your monetary gift goes entirely to relief efforts.
With your help, Our Organization can provide direct services to feed and shelter families who have lost everything, to support seniors and our other vulnerable community members with relocation and supplement for the elderly, and other necessities. We will also support rebuilding efforts of key community structures that were lost in the fire, to get Our Town up and running as quickly as possible.
A little bit can go a very long way to help our community.
-$50 will support an entire family of 4 with emergency necessity kits (toothbrushes/paste, clothes, shoes and blankets).
-$100 will feed a family or 4 refugees at our crisis shelter center for one week.
-$250 will help rebuild the local school cafeteria that was destroyed in the blaze.
In partnership with Our Town’s fire department, who desperately needs funds to increase our fire brigade and support families of fallen first responders.
