Disaster Discovery

Disaster Discovery helps you respond quickly when a crisis or disaster occurs. This tool uses AI to summarize information about active crises and disasters from public sources and shows which supporting organizations are available for your employees to support. Use this tool to search for active crises and disasters and create a Giving engagement element (EE) with pre-filled details.

Tip: Under Recent Disasters on the CSRconnect Admin Portal home, you can see active crises and disasters. Select Disaster Discovery to open the tool.

You can enable the Disaster Discovery tool from AI Settings. Your organization must have enabled the global opt in for generative AI features first.

Your role must include the Can Manage Engagement Elements permission to create an EE from the Disaster Discovery tool. If you have admin users who need view only permission for the Disaster Discovery tool, you can give them the Can View Engagement Elements permission.

Disaster Discovery Sources

Disaster Discovery draws on information collected from public sources, such as the CAF America Global Relief Navigator and FEMA. Select View source on each incident to verify the information provided.

When available from the relevant source, each crisis or disaster can include a title, description, type, location, start date, severity, affected areas, and a list of charities responding to the incident.

Use the Disaster Discovery Tool

Go to CSRconnect Admin Portal, Admin tools, Engagements, Disaster Discovery. When you open the tool, it will show some recent incidents by default.

To search for a specific crisis or disaster, you can enter a search term or question, then select Search with AI. Under AI Summary, the tool displays a short summary of the search results, followed by a list of matching incidents.

When available, the Disaster Discovery tool displays the Registration ID and YC Charity ID for any organizations responding to the incident that are Give-eligible in your community. Organizations outside of your Give bucket will show as not available.

Create a Giving EE for a Crisis or Disaster:

  1. Select the crisis or disaster.

  2. Under Charities, select which charities to include in your EE's Featured Charities.

  3. Select Create Engagement Element.

  4. The Create a Giving EE page opens. The EE Title, About Section Body Text, and Featured Charities list are pre-filled.

  5. Make any needed changes and finish configuring your EE.