Cooperation Long Island

Turning 50 siloed nonprofits into disaster-ready mutual aid infrastructure.

Mutual aid network of 50 nonprofits on Long Island

Fifty nonprofits were each running their own intake forms, their own databases, and their own volunteer coordination — duplicating effort at exactly the moment when the network needed to act together. Catalist enabled a federated system where each organization kept ownership of its own data while contributing to a shared, searchable view of resources, needs, and volunteers across the whole network.

Outcomes
  • Centralized and federated system replaced siloed databases without forcing any org to give up control
  • Needs matched to volunteers and resources across all 50 member organizations in real time
  • Network became disaster-ready infrastructure: a multilingual hotline stood up, hundreds of aid requests directed, and indigenous communities supported through legal battles
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