Our Work
Projects
The Bill Anderson Fund conducts and supports research, evaluation, and technical assistance projects.
In Progress
This project examines the communication and engagement strategies used to convey the geographic distribution of wildfire risk to local communities in the context of statewide wildfire building codes.
In Progress
To support a subset of the objectives for its work in the Midwest region, NVOAD partnered with the Bill Anderson Fund to conduct applied research and develop tools to support evidence-based practices within its membership. Using primary data collection, geographic information systems (GIS) mapping, and a review of both published and grey literature, the BAF documented conditions, current practices, and barriers to engagement within state VOAD networks.
In Progress
The convergence of high temperatures, subtropical climatic zones, and a continuous cycle of land-loss and land gain, along the Gulf Coast, have resulted in a landscape of rapidly changing alluvial plains, islands, shorelines, rolling hills, and some of the most extensive wetlands in the United States.
Completed
Iowans are no strangers to the impacts of climate change, as they are currently experiencing its growing consequences such as blistering heat, extreme floods, and devastating storms that are growing more common each year.
In Progress
Communities across Southwest Louisiana and Central Acadiana face overlapping risks such as hurricanes, flooding, and extreme heat and long-standing challenges such as economic disinvestment, population shifts, and industrial pressures.
Completed
In recent years, the U.S. federal government has launched a range of tools designed to assist federal agencies in targeting resources and grant funds towards disadvantaged communities. These tools add to an expanding landscape of vulnerability maps and indices that aim to help with identifying the spatial distribution of these communities and understand the drivers of social vulnerability within specific geographies.
Completed
When a disaster strikes, people already living with increased food needs are pushed to request additional food assistance. The COVID-19 pandemic created an unprecedented demand for charitable food while also causing disruptions in the supply chain.