Paying for Disasters Differently

Paying for Disasters Differently — Transforming the Capital Model for Resilience

The current disaster finance system is reactive, delayed, and ineffective. It’s time to pay for disasters differently.

This webinar introduces the Community Disaster Resilience Fund (CDRF) as a new investment-based approach to resilience — one that replaces short-term relief with long-horizon, scalable capital designed to strengthen communities before crises occur. We will explore:

· Why the old model fails
The structural limits of grants, debt, and disaster aid — and why the timing, scale, and incentives are misaligned.

· How institutional capital can unlock resilience
The potential uses of institutional capital in financing infrastructure, supply chain readiness, and even funding staffing and implementation capacity.

· What a next-generation model looks like
How the CDRF creates predictable, repeatable, and community-anchored financing at scale.

· How governments, the private sector and nonprofits plug in
Practical pathways to engage in — or replicate — this shift from reactive aid to proactive investment.

Participants will leave with a clear understanding of how resilience can be financed as an asset class — not a charity line item — and how this transition can unlock the capital, confidence, and partnerships needed to build ready communities before, not after, disaster strikes.