Project Impact seeks to have partnerships among people and organizations from the private and public sectors, as well as from individuals to put their combined time, talent and treasure to work to solve the continuing problems of disasters. It is best to do this by preventing the disaster in the first place rather than reacting to it after it occurs. While Project Impact has some seed money attached to it, we hope interested people will go beyond the limitations of those funds and help their own community. You and your community can do many things without being a nationally designated Project Impact community. Project Impact seeks to change the way America deals with natural disasters.
Disasters occur in every state in the nation.
South Dakota has had more than its fair share of them in the last decade. While we could not totally eliminate damages from these disasters, much can be done to lower our cost of experiencing a disaster. This applies to both material damages and death and injury to the human population. In many of the communities that have experience disasters, homes, families and businesses could have been better protected through advance preparation. There are actions that citizens, government and businesses can take to lessen the impact of natural disasters.