Program areas at CDP
Build awareness. Through our website, online community, and webinars, donors can find information, analysis and educational resources about disasters. Users have the ability to access information based on their interests as well as engage in dialogues with other donors. This information is also shared with our partners, clients and the media.cdp provides information on disasters and Disaster Philanthropy via its website, blogs, webinars, speaking engagements, and social media tools. In addition to providing information on disasters. In 2023, cdp's unique website page views averaged almost 224,000 per month, with an average of more than 155,000 monthly users and a considerable spike in traffic during times of disasters. Cdp provided immediate information on on-going disasters and longerterm focused information via its issue insights and Disaster profiles. Additionally, cdp staff leveraged its knowledge through speaking engagements, media outreach and commentaries.
Facilitate access. In order to help donors collaborate and be more strategic with their Disaster Philanthropy, cdp manages both general and disaster-specific Disaster funds. Our team of program experts, with deep knowledge in domestic and international Disaster Philanthropy, manages funds across a range of needs before, during, and after a Disaster, directing resources strategically and efficiently to help communities recover equitably more quickly and become more resilient.
Impart knowledge for donors who prefer to have a more tailored strategy, cdp performs consulting services engagements to help them fit their Disaster giving into larger philanthropic goals. Cdp provides the following consulting services: grants management to assist organizations that want to increase the effectiveness of their Disaster giving; research and analysis to assist organizations that are looking for best practices, data and resources to deepen their disaster-giving work. Strategic planning - to customize Disaster Philanthropy strategies aligned with an organization's goals. Technical assistance to assist organizations that need organizational or management support to strengthen internal expertise and successfully implement disaster-giving initiatives. Annual Disaster management support to assist organizations with customized Disaster content and ngo information immediately following a disaster.cdp served its clients in 2023 with custom approaches in the Disaster Philanthropy areas of developing strategic plans to increase Disaster funding effectiveness, creating grant making processes, conducting workshops designed to educate and innovate Disaster response and facilitating grant making by identifying grantees.