My Nonprofit Reviews

I first came to NECHAMA as an unwilling volunteer at the age of 16. Packed off on a deployment to St. Peter, MN in 1998, I actually had a horrible time. But some part of me must of loved it, because all through college I came back and back again. After college, I went to work for the organization and spent 5 years with them. I've now engaged with NECHAMA as a volunteer, an employee, a donor, and now as a partner in the field of disaster response/emergency management and there are few organizations that make such an impact. Foremost in my mind is NECHAMA's focus on the mission: providing comfort to disaster survivors. They have been flexible in the field, always pivoting to meet the needs they see. They have been a critical part of disaster response in the upper midwest, and a key partner to the other organizations and government agencies they have worked with. And finally, for me, they were a critical connection to a Judaism that I hadn't mattered to me before I worked with them. Today, I am a disaster response/emergency management professional and a Jew because of NECHAMA.

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