Disaster Response and Rebuild are Serve Source's two response scopes, and they show up in different places on the site, so it's worth knowing which one fits your work.
A Disaster Response is tied to a specific, active disaster and appears on that disaster's own page — it's meant for relief-phase work happening in the days and weeks after an event: distributing supplies, clearing debris, providing shelter, and similar immediate needs.
A Rebuild project is about longer-term recovery — rebuilding or repairing homes, case management, and other work that continues for months or years after the immediate response has wound down. Rebuild projects show up on the public Rebuild page instead of a specific disaster's page, and linking one to a disaster is optional rather than required, since long-term recovery work often continues long after a specific disaster is no longer active news.
Submit a Rebuild project once your organization's work has shifted from immediate relief to long-term recovery — or from the start, if long-term recovery is the nature of your work to begin with.
Rebuild projects use the same form as disaster responses, just a different toggle:
- Go to Submit Response — you can also get there from the Submit Response button on your My Responses page.
- Click Long-Term Recovery (Rebuild) near the top of the form (next to Disaster Response).
- Selecting a specific disaster is optional for a rebuild project — you can link it to one if it's related to a specific event, or leave it unselected.
- Fill in the rest of the form: services offered, dates, a description of the rebuild work, location, and any rebuild-specific details the form asks for.
- Review and submit.
Rebuild-scope responses show up on the public Rebuild page, where people can filter by status, disaster, and organization type to find long-term recovery work happening in their area.