Core Capabilities and Capacities of Developer Nonprofits in Postdisaster Community Rebuilding

摘要

Current disaster scholarship examines critical roles that nonprofits play in both immediate postdisaster emergency response and long-term recovery. These studies focus on narrative accounts of nonprofits' accomplishments and in some cases the strategies they employ to complete recovery-related work. Far less attention has been paid, however, to the specific capacities critical for developer nonprofit and philanthropic organizations to carry out their strategies and projects. This article is a case study focused on critical capacities. Using interviews and primary sources documenting New Orleans' advanced stage long-term recovery from Hurricane Katrina, this article isolates key organizational, legal, and operational capacities that enabled developer nonprofit and philanthropic organizations' successful involvement in the city's long-term housing and community redevelopment projects. (C) 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers.