So, questions still remain about the ability of the U.S. disaster relief system to handle a large-scale catastrophe.  What can we do?
(1) Develop a national disaster relief fund
With such a fund, private contributions for relief …

Regarding mechanisms to raise and distribute funds in the wake of emergencies, it might be productive to revisit lessons from my experience with hurricane Katrina.  I arrived in Louisiana 10 days after the storm and …

The effort to provide relief to survivors of the Myanmar cyclone and the Chinese earthquake resurfaces questions of how to effectively mobilize and deploy charitable contributions in an international emergency. People across the U.S. interested …