The GDRA depends on its active members to make their views known. Here are some of the ways you can make a difference today. Please send us specific tasks or opportunities for action from our own work so we can stay informed and offer mutual support. Send this information via email to: usgdra@gmail.com.

• Reach out to Mahila Partnership—thank them for their support, find out how you and others you know can support their work in turn.
• Share what you know women are doing locally to organize for safer, more just and resilient ways of living
• Record your story (stay tuned–storytelling template will soon be on this site)
• Contact other women's organizations about collaborating to support those most at risk
• Post a reply to a GDRA webpage, share memories and ideas and concerns through the listserv
• Take an emergency manager to lunch to discuss gender concerns
• Find out what grassroots women are doing in your community to reduce risk
• Ask your organization to join the GDRA
• Now ask your organization for in-kind and financial support of a particular campaign or working group
• Take a good, hard look at your organization’s emergency plan
• Visit the Gender and Disaster Sourcebook and share some materials
• Contact your closest EMPOWER colleagues and learn more about them as emergency managers
• Ask a student to interview an elder who lived through the "dirty 30s" or is coping with drought today
• Propose a session on US women, men & disaster reduction at your next workshop or conference
• Organize a discussion on women building resilience to disaster at your next community meeting
• Ask for a visit from disaster-affected women with "lessons learned" and unlearned to share
• Consider how your organization, school, faith community or youth group can partner with GDRA locally
• Propose an action research project with, by and for grassroots women to learn from our elders
• Be in touch with ideas for specific action projects in our area to which GDRA can contribute
• Give your student extra credit or inquire about internships with the GDRA
• Send this link to other grassroots women's and community groups working for social justice and sustainability
• Make a list of everything you do to keep family and community strong
• Send a colleague or friend the latest statistics from your town on women's capacities and vulnerabilities
• Monitor your favorite websites, blogs, newspapers or other media for information about gender and disaster resilience
• Host the next conference call so more GDRA members can chime in
• Volunteer as a gender monitor with the Disaster Accountability Project
• Contact us about becoming a partner at usgdra@gmail.com or by clicking here