National Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster

Long term recovery- nvoad provides grants, technical expertise, training, and tools to support long term recovery following a Disaster. Disaster experts from dozens of Organizations work via committees on topics such as Disaster case management, housing, long term recovery groups and emotional and spiritual care.

Member services- nvoad has more than 130 member Organizations comprised of National and state/territory members providing Disaster relief. The voad movement is comprised of nearly 10 million volunteers that provided more than 48 million volunteer hours in 2019 alone. Nvoad provides member benefits including information sharing and coordination across the membership, networking, grants, access to technology, discounts, in kind donations, capability and capacity building tools and resources and hosts an annual conference.

Annual conference- nvoad hosts an annual conference convening more than 700 attendees to share innovative and best practices, to build relationships and network, to strengthen coordination and collaboration and to inform programmatic and policy decision making. Attendees learn from more than 100 Disaster experts spanning 40 workshops and exhibitors throughout the week representing Voluntary agencies, government and the private sector.