ABSTRACT
As community volunteers started to partner and organize their efforts, many have become non-profit organizations over time. In addition to the professionals who work and serve in non-profit organizations in the United States, volunteers are an integral part of managing emergencies and disasters across the globe. Because many are non-profit organizations, they require a number of volunteers in order to operate effectively to provide most of their funding resources to the community to support their services. Given that the leaders and volunteers in non-profit organizations serve an important role in their community's recovery process anyway, it is incumbent upon disaster/emergency management professionals to include them in this phase as they can carry this phase into the longer term efficiently. It is within these phases of the emergency management cycle, along with the NPG, that the professionals and volunteers of the non-profit organizations began partnering as a specific community dedicated to assisting during emergencies and disasters.
