Power in the Storm: Disaster Relief Toolkit

Designing Equity-Based Emergency Management

As frontline communities continue to face stronger and more frequent climate-related disasters, the urgency for action and locally led actions is now. Federal resources, including those from FEMA, are shrinking just as the scale of disasters grows, leaving many Black, Latine, Indigenous, and other frontline communities at disproportionate risk of catastrophic harm.

Power in the Storm is designed to meet this moment. This toolkit equips NAACP members and partners with the knowledge, strategies, and organizing tools needed to build resilience, demand equity in disaster response, and hold all levels of government accountable. The future of disaster resilience depends on communities leading the way, and this toolkit ensures that our members are not only ready to respond, but also have the resiliency training to lead next steps.