Here is a CPE project that I had the privilege of leading. This project was challenging and time-consuming. Despite that, I led the group in completing the project, before the deadline.
PDI presentation on water, livelihood and DRR programs Sikander Brohi
Detailed presentation on PDI work on Water Management, Water Governance, Sustainable Livelihoods and DRR in Sindh and Balochistan Provinces of Pakistan
Here is a CPE project that I had the privilege of leading. This project was challenging and time-consuming. Despite that, I led the group in completing the project, before the deadline.
PDI presentation on water, livelihood and DRR programs Sikander Brohi
Detailed presentation on PDI work on Water Management, Water Governance, Sustainable Livelihoods and DRR in Sindh and Balochistan Provinces of Pakistan
2021 State of the City Henderson HeroesTim D'Souza
There are countless examples of first responders, essential workers, businesses, local leaders and even friends and neighbors who have stepped forward during this pandemic to support our community in extraordinary, and sometimes unexpected, ways. Check out these inspirational examples of local heroism, kindness and servitude in our community.
If you would like to recognize a Henderson resident, organization or business, please engage with us on Facebook or Twitter using #HendersonHeroes.
Making the Climb — Rotarians Taking on Environmental Humanitarian ProjectsRotary International
How does environmental sustainability support Rotary’s
areas of focus? Members of the new Environmental
Sustainability Rotarian Action Group (ESRAG) will share
information and projects that promote environmental
sustainability and climate change awareness in addition to
how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate
disruption. Learn how to identify, plan, and implement local
and global environmental projects and how ESRAG can help.
2021 State of the City Henderson HeroesTim D'Souza
There are countless examples of first responders, essential workers, businesses, local leaders and even friends and neighbors who have stepped forward during this pandemic to support our community in extraordinary, and sometimes unexpected, ways. Check out these inspirational examples of local heroism, kindness and servitude in our community.
If you would like to recognize a Henderson resident, organization or business, please engage with us on Facebook or Twitter using #HendersonHeroes.
Making the Climb — Rotarians Taking on Environmental Humanitarian ProjectsRotary International
How does environmental sustainability support Rotary’s
areas of focus? Members of the new Environmental
Sustainability Rotarian Action Group (ESRAG) will share
information and projects that promote environmental
sustainability and climate change awareness in addition to
how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to mitigate climate
disruption. Learn how to identify, plan, and implement local
and global environmental projects and how ESRAG can help.
Lessons Learned: Haiti Four Years After the Earthquake Kara Lightburn
Presented by Kara Lightburn, Executive Director of Social Tap, Inc on April 21st 2014 for the Yale Alumni Association of New York (YAANY)
Highlights our humanitarian model which has been developed over the course of the past 4 years being immersed in the Haitian society and our recommendations as an International Non-Governmental Organization (INGO) in order to ensure access to services for those most vulnerable and marganalized while building the capacity of communities and local organizations based on asset mapping and mobilization to build sustainability and decrease the dependency of AID in Haiti. Areas for volunteer and civil society involvement are also highlighted based on reciprocal long term relationships and knowledge sharing.
When the Pakistan floods 2010 created a chaos among 20 million people of the country, PDI decided to create a global chaos, but a positive one! sharing our experience from seeking help, recruiting supporters and taking the stories of flood survivors internationally.
2. 2 | | 3
Vision
Resilient communities worldwide.
Mission
To promote disaster risk reduction
through partnerships and education.
To aid recovery efforts through fund-
raising and volunteerism.
A man in Khorla, Nepal enjoys a drink from a water system installed by
Water Mission. See Safe Water, page 8.
Photo courtesy of Water Missions.
3. 4 | | 5
Statement
from the Chair
At the Disaster Recovery International Foundation,
we have a vision of resilient communities worldwide.
Resilient communities that have the ability to bounce
back from adversity and build back better. In 2015,
our team worked harder, our supporters showed their
commitment to this purpose, and our mission was
felt by more communities than ever before.
Amongst the highlights, we awarded a scholarship
to a bright young man with his own unique vision
for motivating a new group of people to spread the
word about preparedness. We mobilized volunteers
from our community of certified business continuity
professionals to give back to our DRI2015 con-
ference host city of San Antonio, TX and made a
donation to a local charity to leave the community
a little better prepared than we found it. We raised
the largest amount of money that we’d ever raised
from a single campaign, for the survivors of the
earthquake that struck Nepal on April 25, 2015.
This was, in part, through our partnership with the
world-class New York City dance community for our
special one-time event, Dance for Nepal which was
featured in the New York Times. We made sure that
those funds found their way to Nepal, in the hands
of organizations doing exceptional work to build
long-term resilience solutions. We wrapped up the
campaign with a special Twitter contest to give ad-
ditional funds to a worthy candidate with the most
supporting tweets on #GivingTuesday. Talk about a
tweet that was worth retweeting!
Each story told here recalls a moment, person or
project that inspired us and showed us that our
work is having real impact and that hopefully, we
are having fun in the process. What connects these
stories is their contribution to the Foundation’s mis-
sion of promoting disaster risk reduction through
partnership and education, and aiding recovery
efforts through fundraising and volunteerism.
None of it happens without you. We hope you enjoy
our 2015 Annual Review and we invite you to join
us in the movement to build resilient communities
in 2016 and beyond.
Sincerely,
AnneMarie Staley, CBCP, MBCI
Chair, DRI Foundation
Key Achievements
$76,600 raised
funds in 2015
47% increase
in donations raised
since 2014
100% of
donations
received spent on initiatives,
not administration*
$26,500 given
to disaster relief and recovery
efforts in 2015
6 disaster relief
grants awarded
22,529 pounds
of food sorted for families in need
13,000 people
provided with access to
safe water
41 families
provided with emergency shelter
6 outreach
events organized
93 volunteers
engaged in 2015
26 partners
with whom we have collaborated
4 new partners
with whom we have collaborated
in 2015
12,782 views
to the DRI Foundation website
from 97 countries
Figures as of December 31, 2015
*DRI International covers the operating costs of the DRI Foundation.
Dance for Nepal Artistic Director Lloyd Knight (principal, Martha Graham Dance Company) performed “Adoration”, choreographed by Joshua Beamish.
See Dance for Nepal page 16.
Photo courtesy of Delinde Photography.
4. 6 | | 7
We partner with non-
profit organizations in
communities impacted
by disasters, and award
them grant money to
help where it is needed
most. This year we
supported Team Rubicon,
The Mennonite Central
Committee, Water Mission,
and the Red Cross.
Nepal Earthquakes
On April 25, 2015 a powerful earthquake of an estimated magni-
tude-7.8 devastated Nepal, followed by several aftershocks and
another earthquake on May 12, 2015. Widespread poverty and
poor building infrastructure in the affected areas exacerbated
the effects of the earthquakes. An estimated 2.8 million people
were affected and over 8,000 lives were lost. After the first
earthquake, the DRI Foundation immediately set up the Nepal
Earthquake Relief Fund and called on continuity professionals
worldwide to make a collective impact. The initial response was
tremendous. When the second earthquake struck, we invited the
New York City dance community to join our efforts in supporting
disaster relief and recovery work in Nepal, which resulted in a
unique performance and auction benefit event titled Dance for
Nepal (see Dance for Nepal page 16). The Nepal Relief Fund
raised $21,000, which enabled the DRI Foundation to support
three non-profit organizations whose work is aligned with our
mission and are making a lasting impact in Nepal. Our combined
efforts sent a message of hope from our community to those in
need. Here is how the DRI Foundation put the funds to use.
Donations
after Disasters
Our Focus Areas:
Operation Tenzing: Team Rubicon volunteers and others team up to clean up affected areas
in the outskirts of Kathmandu. See Relief page 8.
Photo courtesy of Team Rubicon .
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Relief
Among the first to arrive and offer relief after
disasters are first responders. The DRI
Foundation supported disaster response efforts
carried out by Team Rubicon, an international
non-profit “disaster response organization that
deployed volunteer military veterans to respond
to the earthquakes in Nepal. In April 2015, Team
Rubicon sent volunteers to Nepal to provide imme-
diate disaster relief. Based in Kathmandu, Team
Rubicon identified 15 villages in the Sermathang
region which desperately needed medical as-
sistance and physical help. Their medical teams
travelled from village to village providing medical
aid while other volunteers delivered over 5,000
pounds of food. Volunteers also built metal shel-
ters in Sermathang to provide cover from
the impending monsoons.
Safe Water
One of the immediate needs of earthquake survi-
vors was access to safe water. The earthquakes
severely affected water supplies increasing public
health risks. An estimated 1.1 million people lost
access to protected water supplies. With funding
support from the DRI Foundation, Water Missions
implemented safe water systems in the affected
areas. Our donation brought safe water to 13, 000
people in the earthquake ravaged area. One such
area is the village of Khorla, with a population of
800 people, located in the mountains of Nepal,
whose main water line was damaged in a land-
slide resulting from the earthquake, causing villag-
ers to walk to a stream almost a kilometer away
for water. Equipment for the installation, including
a Living Water Treatment System and 1 kilometer
of pipe, was transported to the community via heli-
copter. Local residents were trained to operate the
system and it has become a permanent source for
safe water for the village and surrounding area.
Rebuilding Homes
The earthquakes in Nepal destroyed over
500,000 homes and damaged more than
200,000. Earthquake survivors who returned
home remained in makeshift tents and those
who tried to rebuild their houses using local
materials lacked adequate tools and knowledge
to safely rebuild their homes. An estimated
91,000 people were displaced after the earth-
quakes. The DRI Foundation identified the
Mennonite Central Committee (MCC), an NGO
established in Nepal, which has been providing
humanitarian relief and reconstruction support
following the two earthquakes in April and May
of 2015. With the support of the DRI Foundation,
MCC was able to provide metal sheeting and other
emergency shelter materials to 41 families.
Resilient Communities
in Texas
Our Donations after Disasters program also sup-
ports relief efforts in our local communities. The
2015 DRI annual conference, held in San Antonio,
offered the opportunity for the DRI Foundation to
support communities in Texas, which has more
disasters than any other state according to the
American Red Cross. The DRI Foundation pre-
sented the American Red Cross Serving Central
and Southwest Texas with a donation of $6,915 to
help the local community where it is needed most.
The donation included exhibiting space at the
DRI2015 conference to educate global industry
leaders about business tools that can make their
communities more resilient. The initiative estab-
lished another way in which the Foundation will
leave a lasting impact on the communities where
the annual DRI International conference is held.
Team Rubicon’s disaster relief organization pairs nicely with DRI Foundation’s
mission of building resilient communities worldwide. Through our continued training
and education, we can better help to serve our communities.
—Jonathan Connors
Photo courtesy of Team Rubicon. Photo courtesy of Water Missions. Photo courtesy of Mennonite Central Committee.
6. 10 | | 11
Community
Resilience
Our Focus Areas:
Detroit
Prepare Fair
The DRI Founda-
tion partnered
with DRI em-
ployees to join
Michigan State
Police, the Battle Creek Response Consortium, Do-
1Thing, and Target, in Detroit, Michigan, for the 2015
Detroit Prepare Fair. The event offered an opportunity
to educate and empower the local community in pre-
paring for the unexpected. Attendees learned about
local emergency response agencies, how to develop
a family emergency plan and how to create an emer-
gency preparedness kit. At the DRI Foundation booth,
attendees received a preparedness kit.
The DRI Foundation
encourages DRI Certified
Professionals around the world to
spend time volunteering. Certified
professionals who devote their
free time to non-profit volunteer
work can receive CEAPs points
toward their DRI certification. This
year the DRI Foundation teamed
up with San Antonio Foodbank
and the Detroit Prepare Fair to
offer DRI Certified Professionals
the chance to apply their talents
in diverse settings.
Volunteer Day
Every year, the DRI Foundation selects unique opportunities to
enrich the volunteer experience during Volunteer Day at the annual
DRI conference. The DRI Foundation has offered volunteer oppor-
tunities with local partners in our host communities including resto-
rations of houses, packaging food parcels, and grooming gardens.
This year we partnered with the San Antonio Food Bank in San
Antonio, Texas. Both before the official start of the conference and
on the evening that the conference closed, nearly 70 volunteers
sorted a total of 22,529 pounds of food products, the equivalent of
17,601 meals, that were distributed to those in need. Aside from
being hard work the experience gives DRI Certified professionals a
lasting connection to DRI’s network of certified professionals and
leaves a lasting impact on the community where the DRI annual
conference is held. We are getting better at enhancing resilience in
the places that may be impacted by disasters.
DRI volunteers and community members package over 22,000 pounds of food
at the San Antonio Food Bank during DRI2015 Volunteer Day.
Photo courtesy of Delinde Photography.
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Prepare/
awareness 101
The Winning Essay
America’s disaster preparedness and awareness
within our communities today seems to be mostly
based on “out of sight, out of mind”. This is due
to our short-term memory of recent events and
the attitude that “it won’t happen to me”. But we
couldn’t be more wrong, as there is usually little to
no warning to the pending disasters that Mother
Nature may throw our way or man-made disaster
that seem to be on the increase, whether that is in
the form of terrorism or threat of a new World War.
The only way to properly prepare for these threats
is to build a program that begins with our youth to
provide ongoing education making awareness and
preparedness part of our ongoing lives. We need
to face this opportunity head on, move onward
with the removal of any obstacles, and to ensure
continued improvements on this type of program
going forward. A major issue within America today
is that we generally have little to no idea how to
prepare due to the lack of education in this area.
Education
Our Focus Areas:
We educate
communities about the
need for preparedness
and disaster risk
reduction.
The DRI Foundation Scholarship Award
The DRI Foundation believes that educating our youth about the
importance of disaster preparedness today is key to guaranteeing
a more resilient community in the future. This year we awarded
our first-ever DRI Foundation Scholarship. Made possible through
donations from DRI and DRI Canada, the DRI Foundation Scholar-
ship is the result of our founder’s commitment to education. The
scholarship was open to the children of DRI-certified professionals
in the U.S. and Canada. In addition to providing information about
academic performance and volunteer activities, scholarship appli-
cants were asked to write an essay on community preparedness.
Tyler Newsom, son of DRI International MBCP David Newsom was
the winner. Tyler’s essay not only demonstrated an understanding
of preparedness, he proposed a program of how to incorporate
preparedness education and training into schools from kindergar-
ten through high school. Tyler was selected in part because of the
strength of his essay on incorporating preparedness education and
training into schools. Read Tyler’s essay on the next page.
8. 14 | | 15
Tier III – High School: The third tier would take
place at the high school level and involve engage-
ment and education with local emergency ser-
vices. It is critical that we involve the professional
services teams, as we need to ensure we are
able to work together moving forward. Being young
adults and taking this responsibility seriously
would add to the passion needed to make things
happen as a community, instead of standing by
and watching as individuals.
The program should involve how to perform triage,
first aid, CPR, fire extinguisher training and other
basic support needed to help save lives or support
emergency services of all types. The students would
have field trips to participate
in drills as trained responders
or simply acting as victims.
This would provide for im-
proved awareness and train-
ing based on the scenarios.
The High School Seniors
would have the most involve-
ment in offsite disaster drills
containing the integration of
many emergency services,
including CERT. These exer-
cises would be very similar to
the exercise’s that take place
today between the CERT and emergency services
teams around the United States. Upon comple-
tion of these studies and exercises, and when the
student shows mastery of preparedness for disas-
ters, they would receive a CERT/STUDENT symbol
on their driver’s license. Just like how the organ
donor system works today. That way if a real event
occurs, the student could assist in the response
and cleanup efforts with the identification needed
to show that they are knowledgeable and trained to
effectively perform it safely.
Cooperation is key between all parties to ensure
that the disaster is taken care of as smoothly and
safely as possible. We owe it to ourselves to be
prepared, aware and trained in order to aid in our
own recovery and not to simply put this off onto
someone else without helping ourselves. A timely
and effective response is key to the recovery of
our communities and businesses.
This program would be brought forth to the neces-
sary government bodies like FEMA and the US
Department of Education for support and fund-
ing nationwide. It would take time to develop and
would evolve over many years, but in the end
we would be working together to solve this is-
sue. Learning to prepare for disasters is just as
important as learning how to do math or history,
because if the citizens do not know how to prepare
themselves for a disaster
then we will continue to
see steadily larger losses
of life and greater impact
to our communities.
The overall goal of this pro-
gram is to bring awareness
and preparation to every
citizen in America, as well
as to bring the governmen-
tal disaster recovery agen-
cies and the citizens within
the United States closer
together during disasters.
Starting with our nation’s youth moving forward into
the future, America will steadily become a stronger
nation as more people learn what to do in these
scenarios and when one occurs, we will be able to
bounce back faster than ever before. With our na-
tion’s youth working along side by side with parents,
communities and emergency agencies, we will en-
sure fast and speedy recovery from these events.
In close, this program would bring the citizens and
the emergency services teams closer together, to en-
sure minimal loss of life and the best possible recov-
ery following a disaster. Educating our youth is going
to be key to creating a bright future for America.
We rely completely on the government to come to
our aid if anything terrible occurs, but as we are
not prepared to help we wind up getting in the way.
What we need to realize up front is that disasters
can leave us without critical supplies for an ex-
tended amount of time, and while we wait for the
government to assist we would have to needlessly
do without. A prime example of this was when
Hurricane Katrina made landfall in Louisiana. Due
to the massive scale of this event, the government
was not able to help many residents who remained
stranded for more than a week, which resulted in
greater loss of life and increased the recovery time
for the local businesses and communities.
Some questions we need
to ask ourselves are: Why
are the citizens not taking
the time to prepare? What
will we do the next time
a disaster hits our com-
munity? Why are we not
working together to train
and prepare? How will
we survive if we have not
been taught too? These
are questions we should be asking ourselves now,
while we can act upon them, not later when it is
too late.
The program I would like to suggest to aid in
preparation of our communities starts with our
youth, by making this a normal part of our lives
and sharing in the responsibility. This includes
three tiers of ongoing education, dealing with our
youth to educate everyone on what to do in these
situations. This would then tie into the existing
CERT programs making for a full engagement of
preparedness throughout our lives.
Tier I – Elementary School: The first tier would deal
with elementary school kids, by adding to their
school curriculum education on preparedness/
awareness. They would be taught what to do in
simple scenarios, just like how they are taught what
to do when a tornado or a fire occurs while at their
school. This new program would have the same
effect as the current drills by teaching the kids what
to do when disasters happen, hopefully while hav-
ing some fun in the process.
The kids would be given coloring books illustrating
what to do when a disaster occurs, and would be
told to take the book home to involve their par-
ents. This would allow them to plan out what they
would do as a family making
sure that everyone gets back
home safely. Bringing the
parents into the education
process is key for successful
preparedness at home.
Tier II – Middle School: The
second tier would take place
at the middle school level
and because the kids are
older and more mature, the
scenarios would be more realistic. They would
contain real life scenarios, whether natural or man-
made and they would be region specific based on
where they are located within the country. These
would focus on the typical impact and responses
related to these types of events, as well as work-
shop activities that involve acting out what you
are supposed to do in each scenario. This would
make for realistic scenarios, leaving the students
with as close to real life experiences as possible,
and would improve on their knowledge of how to
respond to these events.
The Winning Essay: Prepare/awareness 101
“I think what my dad does
is cool. He brings home
pictures and stuff and tells
us about all the fail-safes
and precautions. It’s neat.”
Why are the citizens not
taking the time to prepare?
What will we do the next
time a disaster hits our
community? Why are we not
working together to train
and prepare?
9. Special Events
Each year the DRI
Foundation hosts
fundraising events to
support initiatives that
enhance resilience
against disasters.
Dance for Nepal
After two earthquakes struck Nepal in the Spring of 2015, the DRI
Foundation teamed up with the New York dance community to host
an exclusive, one-night benefit titled Dance for Nepal. The event
featured performances by world-class artists who volunteered their
talent to raise over $21,000 toward the DRI Foundation’s Nepal
Relief Fund. This truly exceptional endeavor sold more than 430
seats to New York City’s Union Street Theatre and brought powerful
attention and charitable support to an important cause.
The event saw performances from some of the New York dance
community’s best brightest performers, including Carrie Ellmore-
Tallitsch and Lloyd Knight of the Martha Graham Dance Company,
Eran Bugge, Michelle Fleet, Laura Halzack, Francisco Graciano,
Parisa Khobdeh, Robert Kleinendorst, George Smallwood and
Jamie Rae Walker of Paul Taylor’s American Dance Company;
Jere Hunt and Michael Spencer Phillips of RIOLT Dance New
York, among many others. It also featured the world premiere of
renowned choreographer Josh Beamish’s latest work, created
especially for the concert.
The money raised supported the long-term recovery and rebuild-
ing efforts of our partner organizations for the Nepal earthquake
survivors (see Donations After Disasters page 6).
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“Nepal is a
beautiful country
so rich in culture,
it’s hard to sit
back and watch
the daily struggle
in the wake of
these powerful
earthquakes
without wanting to
help. By bringing
our community
together through
the arts, we
are offering
the Nepalese
communities
the help they so
desperately need.”
—Lloyd Knight,
Artistic Director of Dance
for Nepal
16 |
Irina Dvorovenko and Maxim Beloserkovsky (formerly of American Ballet Theater)
danced “Corrida” choreographed by A. Beliy.
Photo courtesy of Delinde Photography.
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Auction Benefit
Thanks to the generosity of auction item
donors and bidders, the DRI Foundations’
annual auction benefit event, held during DRI2015
was a success. The auction benefit event featured
various items including vacation packages, sports
memorabilia, and much more. The funds raised
provide support for our disaster relief initiatives.
A complete list of 2015 donors can be found on
page 20.
Rusty Ball
For the second year, the DRI Foundation joined over
300 charity organizations for the 8th Annual Rusty
Ball at the Duke Energy Convention Center on Octo-
ber 24, 2015. The event, hosted by the 80s cover
band The Rusty Griswolds and the Spirit of Cincin-
natus, has raised over $1 million since its start in
2008 in support of Cincinnati’s charitable com-
munity. Thanks to the generous donations of our
supporters, all proceeds go toward the DRI Founda-
tion’s initiatives to foster community resilience.
#GivingTuesday
The DRI Foundation supports organizations that are helping build back communities
devastated by disasters. On #GivingTuesday, December 1, 2015, an annual day
of support and fundraising for charity organizations around the world, the DRI
Foundation held a Twitter competition to give an additional $5,000 to one of our
charity partners: Mennonite Central Committee, Team Rubicon USA, and Water
Mission. Each organization was encouraged to promote its mission among its
Twitter followers, tweeting and retweeting their support using the hashtags
#GivingTuesday and #DRIFoundation throughout the day. With the most supporting
tweets on #GivingTuesday, Water Mission was the recipient of the DRI Foundation’s
first #GivingTuesday Twitter $5,000 prize donation. The event brought awareness to
the work of all three participating organizations.
“We are thrilled to have been a participant in the DRI Foundation contest and are
excited to bring safe water to more people because of this donation.”
—Jennie Reeb, Water Missions Communications Assistant
“The impact the Foundation makes is predicated on the generous support of not
only corporate benefactors but the individual business continuity professionals
around the world.”
—Jerry Vevon, Board Vice Chair, Giving Committee Co-Chair
Photo courtesy of John Klare Photography. Jerry Vevon,Vice Chair, Disaster Recovery International Foundation and George Greene IV, President and CEO of Water Missions.
Photo courtesy of Water Missions.
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$5,000 or More
Collegiate Conferences
Clappsaddle and Co.
Dance for Nepal: Simona
Ferrara and Faye Rosenbaum
with artistic direction from
Lloyd Knight
DRI2015 Auction Benefit
Jim Noble
Wolf Weissman CPA’s, P.C.
$1,000 – $4,999
Anonymous (16)
Al Berman
DRI Canada
Booz Allen Hamilton
Kanryu Nagase
Pete & Angie Renneker
Bobby & Susan Williams
$500 to $999
Charity Choice
The Rusty Ball
$250- $499
Clyde Berger
Kyle Kusmer
Michele Turner
Jerry Vevon
Wei Ying
$100 - $249
James Arnold
Jelena Boelke
Nadav Davidai
Chloe Demrovsky
Douglas Denoff
Donna J. Ellmore
DeTurk/Cook Family
John W. Franchy
Maria A. Hawkins
Benjamin Lanka
Midwood Mgmt Corporation
Kevin Mulrooney
Jerome P. Ryan
Ronald Spence
AnneMarie Staley
Daniel Ulbricht
Dave and Rachel Wirth
Yuan
Up to $99
39 Steps
AmazonSmile
Javed Abbasi
Ezekiel Aina
Ahmed Riad Ali
Alberto Ramirez Ayon
Cheri Ayoub
Dan Balanoff
Byron Bartlett
David Blundell
Thomas Boehling
Shawn Borman
Richard Bozada
Andrew Bradley
Ramil Cabodil
Yitsy Calero
Barry Cardoza
Robin Carriere
Choong Chan
Daniel Chan
James Christensen
Robert F. Clarke
Chris Copeland
Hecber Cordova
Ana Corrales
Cheryl Creviston
Anabella Cuenca
Ravi Datla
Anil Datta
Sydney Diaconescu
Kristen Drobnis
Jose Duran
Ama Durham
Henry Ee
Shaya Elcock
Ashley Elcock
Seth & Emily
Emilia Mohd Emla
Joop Epskamp
Caroline de Fauw
Lucia Franzese
Karthik Gadiyar
Elizabeth & Sarah Gallo
Felisssa Gero
Guy Gioino
Kaarthigayan Gurusamy
Allen Joyce De Guzman
Denise Hamilton
John Hernandez
Andrew Hollingsworth
Glenn Hubler
Daniel Hunt
Eric Hutchinson
Edward Wurster, III
Mikhail Ilyayev
Takio Inui
Lisa Jackson
John Jackson
Eric Jackson
Calvin & Jax
Rebecca Jones
Sheena Joshi
John Manning Jr.
Michael Kadar
Muralitheran Kanagarajoo
Michele Kelley
Suzanne Kennedy
Ronald Kesner
Lemarcus Kinner
Richard Kobylar
Brian Konash
Jack Lai
D. Lal
Rajeev Lalwani
Timothy Lanz
Andrew Lee
Harley Lemons
Don Lewis
Robin Loparo
Jesse Lora
Steve MacIntyre
Wasim Malik
Stacy Jo Marine
Rafael Mascaro
Brenda Matthews
Judy Mavroleon
Kellie McGinley
Stephen McKeown
George Michaels
Evelyn Miraglia
Debra Mitchell
Alan Mitnick
Anderson Arce Mora
Tess Moszczynski
Swaminathayer Muralidhar
Yutaka Nagae
Russell Neal
Michelle Neff
Robert Novak
Konrad Nowogrodzki
Muhammad Odeh
Marcelo Oliveira
Karla Oman
Auditor Oromuno
Damon Owen
Marvin Pascual
Nicholas Pasquenza
Brenda Brown-Paul
Emanuel Payton
Frankie Swee Eng Phee
Renee Pinto
Udi Priyoko
Mark Proudley
Robert Puppa
Manu Puthumana
Henny Raadschilders
Stanley Ragen
Samapti Rahman
Michael Reilly
Gail & David Reisin
CT Valley Chapter of RIMS
Guadalupe Rojo
Morgan Roseborough
Phyllis le Roux
Jorge Salas
Mayra Alejandra Isidro
Salazar
Rommel Salinas
Amanda Sears
Mehmoud Sharif
Edward Shields
David Short
James Siano
Gary Silberquit
Tekisha Slack
Suzette Smith
Kamal Sonnylal
Geeta Sookoo
Walter Salvatico PGAM SpA
Susan Stein
Gunasakaran Suppiah
Eiji Takamori
Alain Thill
Jessica Thomas
Seng Hong Toh
Cheryl Tollefson
Mark Turnbull
Manel Herrer Vazquez
Chad Wagner
Margaret Welch
Pamela Westerman
Richard Wexler
Kara Wiese
Linda Wilson
Marnie T. Wood
John Yang
Yutaka Yoshiike
Teodora Zobel
Corporate Match
Booz Allen Hamilton
Booz Allen Hamilton
Volunteer Service Grants
Gannett Foundation
Matching Gifts Program
LexisNexis Foundation
Microsoft Matching
Gifts Program
In-kind Donors
Allegro Winery
Antique Automobile Club of
America Museum
Atlanta Symphony
Orchestra
Aurora Theatre
Aveda
BAM Brooklyn Academy of
Music
Bay Area Discovery
Museum
Bayside Resort
Blue Man Group
Bradford Renaissance
Portraits
Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Buffalo Bills
Carl M. Freeman Golf
Facilities- Bear Trap
Dunes, Bayside Resort &
The Bay Club
Carnegie Hall
Chambers Hotel
Chicago Bears
Children’s Museum
Pittsburgh
ComedySportz Chicago
ComedySportz Indianapolis
Dallas Plano Marriott at
Legacy Town Center
Delta
Denver Zoo
Diversionary Theatre
Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre
Fairway Market
Fireplace Restaurant
Flat Creek Enoteca
Gibney Dance
Grafton Group
Graze
Hartford Yardgoats
Hotel Monaco
International Tennis
Hall of Fame
Jiffy Lube
Joffrey Ballet Chicago
Junoon
Lantern Theatre Company
Lia Schorr Day Spa
Long Wharf Theatre
Macari Vineyards
Maggiano’s Little Italy
Magnolia Bakery
McCarter Theater
Milwaukee Admirals
Mt. Spokane Ski
&Snowboard Park
Naples Zoo Caribbean
Gardens
Nature’s Path
New York Giants
New York Jets
New York Philharmonic
New York Yankees
Okemo Mountain Resort
Oregon Shakespeare
Osteria del Principe
Festival
Oregon Symphony
Oriental Trading
OtterBox
Pacific Park on the Santa
Monica Pier
Petunia Pickle Bottom
Pittsburgh Public Theater
Pittsburgh Steelers
Prabal Gurung
Sandra Feinstein-Gamm
Theatre
Shake Shack
Sprinkles Cupcakes
Squatters and Wasatch
Pubs and Beers
Stomp
Sunset World
Target
The Flatbread Company
The Home Depot
The Jungle Theater
The Pasadena Playhouse
The Walt Disney Company
Under Armour
University of Kentucky
USA Rugby Trust
USS Midway Museum
Wachusett Mountain
Whole Foods Market
William Chris Vineyards
The DRI
Foundation
thanks the
individuals,
companies, and
organizations
whose generous
donations
supported our
efforts in 2015.
Our Generous
Supporters
Dance for Nepal curtain call. See Special Events on page 16.
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Ways to Give Leadership
Help Us Build Community Resilience
There are many ways to support the DRI Founda-
tion’s vision of resilient communities worldwide.
Visit thedrifoundation.org to:
Donate
Cash: Make a monetary donation via our
website or mail
Honorific: Honor someone with a gift
Employer Matching: Find out if your employer par-
ticipates in Double the Donation Matching Gifts
Get Involved
Partnership and Affiliates: Inquire about joining us,
email AnneMarie Staley at astaley@driif.org.
Volunteer: Want to volunteer? Email Clyde Berger
at cberger@driif.org
Ask for volunteers: Need our volunteers to help
out at your nonprofit? Email Clyde Berger at
cberger@driif.org
Other ways to give
AmazonSmile: Select us when you shop at
smile.amazon.com and we will receive 0.5%
of your purchase price as a donation —
at no additional cost.
Charity Choice: Donate the balance on gift
cards, credit card points, and employee incentive
programs to us at charitygiftcertificates.org or
purchase a charity gift card and select us as the
suggested benificiary.
Crowdrise: Start a new
Crowdrise fundraiser
to support us or donate
to one of our existing
fundraisers today.
Have a question or an idea?
Talk to us: 646-378-7922 or info@driif.org
DRI Foundation Board of Directors
AnneMarie Staley, Chair
Global Business Continuity Manager
AmTrust Financial Services, Inc.
Jerry Vevon, Co-Chair;
Giving Committee Co-Chair
Vice President, Life Cycle Engineering
Alan Berman, President
President & CEO, DRI International
Clyde Berger, Vice President;
Volunteerism Chair
President, Imagine Continuity Enterprises
Chloe Demrovsky, Marketing Chair
Executive Director, DRI International
Pascale Phelan, Secretary
Manager, DRI International
Pete Renneker,
Fundraising Chair
Senior Manager,
Deloitte & Touche
Michele Turner,
Giving Committee Co-Chair
Sr. Compliance Program Manager, Microsoft
Michele Verdino Ostler,
Director
President, Penta Dynamic Solutions
Staff
Kathy Acevedo
Program Associate
DRI International
Photo courtesy of Water Missions.
Shaya Elcock’s (pictured with Basia
Kuszewski) Crowdrise marathon
fundraiser collected over $1,000 for
the Foundation’s Nepal Relief Fund.
Board members pause for a picture while packaging food at the San Antonio Food Bank, during DRI2015 Volunteer Day. See Volunteer Day, page 10.
13. Contact
Disaster Recovery International
Foundation, Inc.
1115 Broadway, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10010
866-542-3744
getinvolved@driif.org
www.thedrifoundation.org
Follow us on twitter
@dri_intl using #drifoundation
Photo courtesy of Water Missions.