From Chaos to Unity, we want to see you recover.

Don’t start from scratch

 

Our Services

Stormwise is an educational nonprofit. We teach community leaders how to succeed in crisis and disaster. Our programs follow a Model, Mentor, Monitor evolution. We don’t want to own your operation. We don’t want to run your operation. We don’t want our name in the lights. We just want you to be the best at what you are already doing. We can help you get there. See the services we provide here.

Our Background

Stormwise was born out of the need for a tool that didn’t exist. After decades of working in disaster, we became sick of watching communities waste time and resources to reinvent the wheel of disaster. A shared resource network building on relationships was needed. Having learned the essentials of forging relationships through disaster work, we decided to build the tool that was needed.

Our Mission

The Stormwise Foundation exists to educate community leaders in the public, private, and social sectors on best practices and innovations in disaster response, crisis management and community resilience.

Core Values

Empowering Relationships

Relationships are everything in disaster. We broker trust between siloed organizations and mentor our partners in how to build strong and long lasting relationships that help resources flow towards the survivors.

Scalability Through Education

You’ve probably heard it said that you can give a man a fish and he’ll eat for a day or you can teach a man to fish and he’ll eat for a lifetime. Most organizations working in the disaster space give out fish. We scale to accommodate disaster preparedness and response by teaching local leaders how to fish.

Collective Impact

No one organization is large enough to handle the needs created by modern sized disaster. Rather than fostering competition, we foster collaboration and partnerships that are mutually equitable to leverage all strengths towards the benefit of disaster survivors.

Appropriate Resource Allocation

Humans and digital technologies are both necessary resources in the disaster space but humans are often sent to do a job best done by digital technologies and digital technologies are put in services that are really best preformed by humans. We identify the latest technological innovations and insert them where they are most effective while keeping humans central to the compassionate side of disaster response.

Transformational Leadership

We invest in community leaders. Our services are not transactional, but relational. We empower leaders by identifying their unique skill sets, honing them, and using the challenges of disasters to cultivate a transformation of leadership.

Opening Lines Of Communication

So much can be accomplished in the disaster space by simply sharing facts openly. It is often an extra and unfamiliar step in a leader’s workday, but it reduces redundancy, builds interorganizational bonds and increases effective decisions making.

  • Matthew Topper

    Chief Executive Officer

    With calming confidence, Topper drives toward a paradigm shift in Disaster Response by strategically building strong relationships between siloed community leaders and national nonprofits so survivors will reap the benefits from the collective impact that results.

  • Liz Abdalla

    Chief Operating Officer

    With an innate affinity for interoperability, Liz combines efficient systems and structures with compassionate interpersonal interaction to design and build high capacity human/computer ecosystems where survivors get more help faster.

  • Braylon Harris

    Chief Development Officer

    With palpable charm and zeal, Braylon brings a playful creativity to the complex problem sets imposed by disasters, finding opportunity to grow and prosper where others have folded in frustration.

  • Bethany Robinson

    Administrative Specialist

    With a scrupulous eye for detail and a history in disaster recovery, Bethany takes on our behind-the-scenes special projects with a development and administrative focus to give us a depth of excellence.