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Questions:Note: We recommend asking the following questions separately for each of several recent major disasters.
- When did you first respond to the disaster?
- How many staff were involved in the first response? What sort of supplies, and how many of each, were shipped?
- When did you first publish a fundraising target for the disaster?
- Over the few months following the disaster,
- How much did your organization raise for relief?
- How much did it spend?
- Did you revise your estimate of how much was needed at any point? If so, when and to what?
- Did you stop accepting new donations earmarked for the disaster at any point?
- On what did you spend the money? Please be as specific as possible regarding quantities (number of staff involved, number of supplies shipped).
- With which other organizations did you coordinate?
- Did you conduct any sort of later follow-up/evaluation of your immediate response, including surveying aid recipients regarding their satisfaction?
- Over the longer-term (the several years following the disaster):
- How much did you raise for reconstruction-related activities?
- How much did you spend?
- Did you revise your estimate of how much was needed at any point? If so, when and to what?
- Did you stop accepting new donations earmarked for the disaster at any point?
- On what did you spend the money? Please be as specific as possible regarding activities carried out. For each activity, please answer the questions corresponding to that activity from other sections above.