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Key Initiatives
The Greater Houston Disaster Alliance is dedicated to building a stronger, more resilient region by partnering with nonprofits, whose deep community connections, adaptability, and program expertise make them vital to accelerating recovery and building resilience.
Informed by lessons learned from administering two joint disaster funds in 2024, the Disaster Alliance has developed a transparent and impactful strategy to engage nonprofits year-round through funding opportunities, convenings, and resource sharing. This strategy aligns with our commitment to deploy disaster funding with thoughtful urgency while ensuring collaboration with trusted nonprofit partners.
United Way of Greater Houston, in partnership with United Way Worldwide and with generous support from Verizon, is proud to offer a series of Disaster Preparedness & Resilience Workshops across the region.
These free events are designed to equip residents across the region with the knowledge, resources, and tools they need to prepare for the unexpected—with additional emphasis on communities facing the highest disaster risk, including those located in designated Community Disaster Resilience Zones in Harris County.
Our intent in sharing these materials is simple: to lighten the lift for others doing this vital work. If they help you reclaim time, use resources more effectively, or navigate around challenges we’ve faced ourselves, then they’ve served their purpose.
Harvey at 10: From Recovery to Resilience is a ten-year retrospective report and regional convening led by the Disaster Alliance and a network of strategic partners. The effort will examine how the Houston region has recovered, adapted, and changed since Hurricane Harvey in 2017, synthesizing lessons learned, documenting progress, and identifying remaining challenges.
Looking forward, it will help align leaders around the most important opportunities and priorities for strengthening resilience across Greater Houston. Ultimately, the goal is to catalyze more coordinated, effective, and community-informed action over the next decade.
Launched in 2025, ACT Houston brought together individuals from local nonprofits, foundations, academia, and government to co-create a vision and co-plan for solutions that could advance the capacity of local stakeholders to better collaborate in adapting to disasters that affect the health and resilience of their communities.
As part of this effort, the Disaster Alliance is participating in the From Silos to Community-Centered Systems (TDDC) project, which convenes partners across Greater Houston to redesign disaster data and communications—aligning parallel working groups to develop a unified, community-centered strategy for preparedness, response, and recovery.
