Floods
In February 2025, Kentucky experienced severe flooding caused by a major storm system. The North Fork Kentucky River reached record levels, leading to widespread destruction. More than 39,000 families were affected, 1,000 residents were rescued, and 14 lives were lost. Recovery efforts were further complicated by a winter storm, which brought snow and freezing temperatures.
The ERT arrived in East Kentucky and supported four key initiatives, providing aid, supplies, and coordination across Kentucky and Tennessee, including the region’s largest humanitarian hub. We have built solutions to enhance both current and future efforts, ensuring a more resilient response in the future.
By developing solutions for food distribution management, volunteer coordination, inventory tracking, and logistics, we supported the initiatives to efficiently mobilize 386 volunteers, 40 trucks, over 260,000 water bottles, 768 meals, and 150 food boxes—ensuring critical supplies reached those in need.
Wildfires
In January 2025, the ERT worked in LA to support aid initiatives that responded to Eaton and Palisades fires. With hundreds of thousands of evacuees, and a rapid need for community based response- we were quick to respond.
Over the course of 10 days we worked with aid organizations to set up systems for aid efforts including an aid management platform for an entertainment venue turned shelter that hosted evacuees, collected donations, and made relief item distributions to people in need, volunteer management and inventory systems and coordination mechanisms for logistics and donations.
The ERT supported 9 initiatives, who registered and managed over 3k volunteers, collected hundreds of donations, and directly supported hundreds of people who lost their home
Texas tornados: disaster activation workflow
In May 2024, deadly tornados hit Texas and its surrounding states, with hurricane-force gusts of >120km/h and golf ball-sized hail. Over 500,000 people were left without electricity, 24 killed, and hundreds of homes were destroyed.
3 days after the storms, the ERT arrived in Dallas, to support a Texas based relief agency that provides assistance in the immediate aftermath of a disasters through the deployment of volunteers and heavy machinery.
In two days, we developed a disaster activation and coordination workflow, helping our partner to effectively respond to four affected communities across Texas and Oklahoma, find the right volunteers, and track their impact.
Afghan and Ukrainian migrant resettlement
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In recent years due to the crises in Afghanistan and more recently in Ukraine, tens of thousands of migrants are reaching the US to find shelter, resettling and forming a new life in shelters and other locations.
In April, the ERT arrived to the HQ of a major INGO supporting migrants and refugees, to implement a digital system to reach out refugees with relevant information about their right through a resettlement process.
In 2 days, the ERT and our partner created a complete workflow to generate and collaborate on content creation, disseminate messaging through social media channels, and have clear visualization tools for the work and impact done
Hurricane Fiona
After Hurricane Fiona hit Puerto Rico, leaving 90% of the island without power and 55% of homes without water, the ERT joined a volunteer based disaster relief organization in the field.
The ERT created digital solutions for volunteer registration and management, as well as aid request collection and community needs assessment templates.
monday.com's platform allowed the NGO volunteers to quickly collect and process data on the needs on the ground, and activate relevant support in real time.
Hurricane Ian
Two days after category 4 Hurricane Ian hit Florida, the ERT arrived to the field to support the relief work of Cadena.
The ERT customized digital solutions, including community needs assessments, relief item distribution tracking, and donor reporting tools.
The monday.com platform enabled Cadena to make real-time decisions while in the field, quickly raise funds based on the data visualization tools, and save over 60% of the time typically invested in reporting.
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