After the Fire USA in the News

Sonoma, CA – After the Fire USA is pleased to announce that the North Bay Forest Improvement Program has been awarded a $3.5M grant from the CAL FIRE Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force’s Small Private Landowner Working Group through Senate Bill 170-Budget Act of 2021. The new funding will expand the North Bay Forest Improvement…

Jennifer Gray Thompson, CEO and Judy Coffey, Board President of After the Fire, a leading nonprofit in wildfire recovery in the United States, announced a grant from the Walmart Foundation to support programs dedicated to helping communities recover, rebuild and reimagine after experiencing a megafire. The $220,000 grant supports the work of After the Fire USA, specifically our Community to Community Programs (C2C) supporting, mentoring, coaching and sharing best practices with those affected in the devastating 2020 wildfire season that burned over 10 million acres and caused $16.4B in damage across California, Oregon, and Washington states. “The 2020 wildfire season was not only unprecedented, it was also a confirmation that we are living in the Era of Megafire. This generous grant from the Walmart Foundation demonstrates their commitment to ensuring wildfire survivors have equal access to adaptable systems, resources, best practices, and our Wildfire Resilience Network of leaders,” stated Jennifer Gray Thompson.

Jennifer Gray Thompson, CEO and Judy Coffey RN, Board President of After the Fire USA, the leading nonprofit wildfire recovery organization in the western United States announced today the board appointment of two new members. Molly Mowery, AICP is Executive Director for the nonprofit organization Community Wildfire Planning Center and Founder of Wildfire Planning International.…

Jennifer Gray Thompson, CEO and Judy Coffey, Board President of a leading nonprofit in wildfire recovery in the United States announced Alaska Airlines as After the Fire USA’s exclusive travel partner. The travel partnership with Alaska Airlines supports the work of After the Fire USA in critically important ways: a donation that fiscally supports our…

Jennifer Gray Thompson, CEO and Judy Coffey RN, Board President of After the Fire USA, the leading nonprofit wildfire recovery organization in the western United States announced today the board appointment of wildfire resilience leader Marko Bey, a leader in wildfire mitigation, forest restoration, and workforce development. Marko Bey is the Founder and Executive Director of Lomakatsi Restoration Project (lomakatsi.org) based in Ashland, Oregon and affected by…

Pamela Williams and Chisato Fukuda Calvert Bring Fire Power to Fire Recovery Organization December 8, 2021 – Sonoma, CA. – Jennifer Gray Thompson, CEO and Charles Brooks, COO of the esteemed fire recovery organization in the western United States announced today two new high-powered members to its board of directors at After The Fire USA…

Each year the wildfires across the West grow larger, more severe, and there are new communities faced with recovery and rebuilding. After the Fire’s CEO Jennifer Gray Thompson and COO Charles Brooks went through these experiences with the 2017 Sonoma County Complex fires and the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise respectively. But as the destructive…

Rebuild NorthBay Foundation (RNBF) today announces a bold transition to address the ongoing threat of wildfire devastation both locally and across the Western United States with their new initiative: After the Fire: Recover. Rebuild. Reimagine.  Building on four years of knowledge and experience, this evolution of Rebuild NorthBay Foundation’s work in Northern California will bring…

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and After the Fire/Rebuild NorthBay Foundation in partnership with local governments, NRCS, CAL FIRE, Clear Lake Environmental Resource Center (CLERC), and Resource Conservation Districts (RCD) from Colusa, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, Lake and Yolo Counties are leveraging $4.9M in CA to implement land management practices which minimize wildfire impacts. Our…