Salvation’s Claims on Structure

The Salvation Army says it has a decentralized structure that’s much better able to respond to disasters and is run from the bottom up. Nearby staff and volunteers who know the affected locations run the operation and communicate their actions upwards. By comparison, the ARC flies volunteers from all more than the country and numerous have had only hours of coaching and no actual disaster encounter. This led to what some witnesses known as the “inconsistent competency” of “staff”. The Salvation Army notes that the Army – the second largest disaster relief organization within the country – isn’t within the National Response Strategy, and as such, is excluded from emergency preparing and coordination.

Testimony of the Baton Rouge Region Foundation stated that big and little relief groups had no coordination in between them for three weeks and that big national organizations didn’t communicate with nearby groups. There was a total inability to procedure very generous offerings of assist (loaned trucks, helicopters, jet planes, apartment and hotel rooms) from across the country. (I would call this an inability to offer a resources management method.)