Santa Clara County wants to make changes to the region’s disaster aid pipeline — raising alarms for the nonprofit that has run it for decades.
Emergency resource leaders are scratching their heads at the county’s efforts to restructure the region’s state-recognized Voluntary Organizations Active in Disaster. The network of community groups is managed by Collaborating Agencies Disaster Relief Effort (CADRE), which coordinates local churches and nonprofits to deliver food, shelter and other urgent aid to residents during pandemics, wildfires, destructive storms and prolonged heat waves.
The county moved to repeal a resolution recognizing CADRE as its designated organization in early November. But the Board of Supervisors delayed the decision after backlash from organizations like the Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits, which called out a lack of public outreach and transparency around their plans…