When the coronavirus pandemic forced me, as well as much of humanity, to severely restrain my daily routine several months ago, to include cutting off my social life, as I basically “self-isolated” at home, I found some solice in digging up a small patch of…
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See what our UNICEF partner, Allison Burtch, had to say about her experience at our Drones in Disasters Do Tank. http://www.unicefstories.org/2016/07/07/a-do-tank-event-disaster-relief-drones-provide-life-saving-aid/
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When FIT came across Mandy Larson’s Facebook post, which shares tips for survivors as they return to their destroyed homes, FIT team members reached out to help her amplify her voice and platform for this message of help and hope. With the help of several…
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See what our founder Desi Matel-Anderson had to say about innovation at the Thin Air Summit on Innovation. Listen to Desi’s onair interview with NPR and KCPW HERE In anticipation of the inaugural Thin Air Innovation Festival, we sat down with several of our panelists…
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FIT Members! What a wild 2015, right?! …it’s not slowing down anytime soon, in fact we are going to be diving further into our creative projects, scale-up essential initiatives, find time to experiment with exponential tech in the skies and (of course) deploy to disasters. Grab…
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The current Syrian crisis is an ongoing global catastrophe, and FIT has been a part of the extensive effort to address and help recovery. In August 2015 FIT planned for this with partners Yale School of Public Health (YSPH), Refugee Health Initiative (RHI) and Beyond Reform and…
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FIT introduces a new post deployment project, “Stories from the field: A visual series” With a new side project we take you back in time to our collaboration with Pakistani partners on a storytelling-focused community resilience project piloted in Sindh and Gilgit-Baltistan provinces in 2014…
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Women LEAD Nepal & FIT collaborated in the earthquake relief efforts to help young women empower themselves in the rebuilding efforts. We planned a collaboration to address issues faced by the 1.5 million children impacted as a result of the earthquakes taking into account that…
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Out the of the planet’s 2% fresh water supply, California’s portion is shrinking fast. The complexities of the drought are numerous, affecting everyone and everything, and the stakes are high. With the drought at the forefront of people’s thoughts, the Field Innovation Team (FIT), the…
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Right in the middle of a seemingly innocuous Disaster Do Tank at the Tribeca Anti-Summit, the lights went out! Participants experienced a simulated electrical grid failure caused by solar flare and reacted by creating real-time solutions to help the city react. FIT volunteers rapidly trained participants…
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