At the collective spirit of people to help each other, and at the nonprofits who have mobilized deep in their communities, their neighboring communities, and communities clear across the country, to pitch in.
Of course it's not just nonprofits. This photo is from a neighborhood restaurant which cooked pizzas in its coal oven by flashlight for a neighborhood starved for hot food. And reminders of the generosity of the human spirit abound, certainly in disasters but in the everyday as well.
But the very nature of a nonprofit - organized not-for-profit but in service of the common good - means the helping of others is at its very core. And we certainly saw that after Sandy - from Brooklynites helping Brooklynites to list serves that placed volunteers where they were most needed.
Our own New York State governor said it best:
“New York has one of the largest and most sophisticated non-profit sectors in the country and as we recover from Hurricane Sandy, this sector will be a critical partner."
It was good to hear a political figure acknowledge the tremendous force of nonprofits for good, and what a critical partner they are in building and bolstering a civil society.
Now if only nonprofit funding streams reflected this acknowledgement of their critical importance to the civic sphere...
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