Disasters and Nonprofits: Challengers to provide public services under the situation of shrinking disaster recovery funds

Abstract

　Nonprofits have played essential roles in the disaster recovery. Many organizations were established to engage the recovery activities as well as existing nonprofits supply relief activities immediately after happening the disaster. However, they may face difficulty to keep raising the fund to provide public services after the disaster recovery phase. This paper aims to uncover who engages with what revenue sources and discuss what challenges the nonprofit organizations would face after a while, moving to peacetime. This paper finds that the newly established organizations after the disaster may raise more than one fund to implement their relief activities. Also, they tend to spend a higher ratio of current revenue for the activities. They also consider that they engage the disaster recovery as long as they can. They will have to face the fundraising difficulties to continue providing their services after shrinking the funding resources regarding disaster recovery.