Vision

When disasters hit, supply chain services help ensure the right types of relief supplies reach survivors as expediently as possible – and keep arriving as long as they’re required. Many disaster-related factors make such services extremely difficult to coordinate, including damaged roadways, flood conditions and sudden surges in demand. These hurdles often prevent disaster relief agencies from being able to effectively leverage their logistics budgets – which can account for as much as 80% of humanitarian relief expenditures. And that, in turn, means that up to 40% of these well-intended efforts go to waste. This perpetuates post-disaster instability and prolongs the long road to recovery. ALAN exists to address those issues. We’ve provided donated logistics assistance and high-level logistics visibility to more than 150 non-profits across 80 disasters – and equipped them with myriad ways to become more disaster-ready and make each logistics dollar go further.

Goals

1. 1.Strengthen disaster recovery efforts by reducing the time and cost of delivering humanitarian aid.
2. 2.Build stronger ties between government agencies, industry associations, and non-profits to increase resiliency in the disaster relief space.
3. 3.Increase access to essential disaster-related information so that non-profit, for-profit, and government relief efforts can be synchronized more effectively.