Disaster Relief & Humanitarian
Mobilize volunteers fast, coordinate teams across regions, track deployments, and document every hour for donors and grantors. Resgrid gives relief nonprofits and NGOs mission-grade coordination without mission-crushing software costs.
Free for up to 10 users & units • No contracts • Set up in about 15 minutes
Relief organizations spin up fast, deploy far, and run on volunteers — while donors and grantors expect enterprise-grade accountability.
When the hurricane makes landfall, you need to know within hours which trained volunteers can deploy — not start a week of phone calls and reply-all threads.
Every deployment spawns new group chats. Decisions, needs, and locations get buried in threads nobody can search when it matters.
Teams scattered across counties or countries with no central picture of who's assigned where, what skills they carry, and when they rotate out.
Funders want volunteer hours, deployment records, and outcome documentation. Reconstructing them after demobilization burns staff weeks and weakens reports.
One platform for the full deployment lifecycle: alert, mobilize, coordinate, track, and document.
Alert your whole volunteer base or specific regions by push, SMS, email, and voice. Availability responses show deployable strength within hours, not days.
Groups by chapter, region, or function with roles for team leads, drivers, and specialists. Dispatch assignments to exactly the right subset.
See deployed teams and vehicles on a live map with statuses. Field members check in and out of assignments from their phones with GPS-stamped logs.
Volunteer hours, assignment logs, notes, and photos accumulate per deployment and export cleanly — grant reports and donor updates start from data, not memory.
Track chainsaw certs, food-handling cards, chaplaincy, languages, and licenses with expirations. Build mission teams from verified skills, not assumptions.
Free tier for small teams, nonprofit discounts on paid plans, seasonal downgrade flexibility without data loss, and a self-host option for zero license cost.
Most relief organizations rebuild their coordination stack from consumer apps at every disaster.
What you use today | Examples | Typical cost | Included in Resgrid |
|---|---|---|---|
Mass texting / notification | EZTexting, mass email blasts | $500–$3,000 / yr | Multi-channel callouts with responses |
Ad-hoc group chats | WhatsApp, Signal, GroupMe per event | Free, but unsearchable chaos | Organized messaging by team & mission |
Volunteer spreadsheets | Excel rosters, skill matrices | Stale before the next deployment | Living roster with skills & expirations |
Deployment sign-in sheets | Paper forms, clipboard check-ins | Weeks of post-event data entry | GPS-stamped digital check-in/out logs |
Hour tracking for grants | Timesheets reconstructed after demob | Staff weeks per major event | Automatic activity & hour logging |
Beyond $1,000–$4,000 per year in subscriptions, the real cost is staff weeks of post-deployment reconstruction. Resgrid captures the record as the deployment happens — free tier and nonprofit pricing keep it inside a relief budget.
Every hour and dollar saved on coordination overhead is capacity redirected to the mission — and better documentation raises the next grant.
to mobilized teams, not days
typical yearly tool consolidation
of volunteer hours captured
to start on the free tier
Estimates based on typical published pricing of notification tools and reported post-deployment administrative workloads; results vary by organization size and deployment tempo.