Faith-led. Data-informed. Partner-powered.

When disaster strikes,
we get through it together.

F3 is an open door. Whether you want to serve, need help, lead a church or group, or already stand watch for your community, there’s a place for you here.

F3 brings faith-based responders and recovery organizations together with public agencies, businesses and donors. F3 connects the intelligence, maps, training, communications and resources that support their work, every day.

Find your place Take a look around

Checking on the weather? See forecasts and alerts for your ZIP code

Neighbors of many backgrounds hand out water and supplies outside a storm-damaged country church while two volunteers on their phones get a drone ready to launch.

Find your place

Everyone has a part to play.

Pick the door that fits you best. Each one leads to the parts of F3 that matter most to you, and you can always come back and open another.

For neighbors

Serve, or get help

You don’t need experience to help. And if a disaster has hit your home, you don’t have to figure it out alone.

Free volunteer training you can start today
Weather and alerts for your ZIP code
Your volunteer hours can help your community pay its share

Start the free training See the Volunteer Time BankNeed help right now? Call 911 in an emergency, or call or text 211 for food, shelter and local help.

Members of different congregations pack emergency kits together in a fellowship hall.

For churches and community groups

Connect and become a partner

Your church or group already knows its neighbors. We help you get ready to reach them when it counts.

See who in your area may need help on the map
Train your people with plain-language courses
Join a network of churches and groups near you

Connect my church or group See Maps & Insights

Church, county and nonprofit leaders of many backgrounds plan around maps in an emergency operations room.

For partners already serving

Stand watch together

Relief groups, ministries and government partners already do amazing work. Connected through one hub, each can multiply the others.

A shared picture of need, before and after
Trained volunteers ready to plug in
Support and solidarity between storms

Meet CORD Visit the Partner Network

Community lifelines

The services every community needs to get back on its feet.

Disaster response is organized around community lifelines. F3 brings the Faith Lifeline alongside them: the churches, ministries and neighbors who show up first and stay the longest.

See what each lifeline covers →

Take a look around

The tools behind
faith in action.

Built for churches and community organizations, experienced responders, recovery teams and the partners who support them.

Weather where you are

Know what’s coming,
and who it will hit hardest.

Type a ZIP code for the National Weather Service forecast, live radar and alerts. We also show NOAA’s severe storm, flash flood and hurricane outlooks for that spot, plus who in the community may need help. Or open Severe weather now for radar, hurricane tracks, earthquakes, floods and fires across North America.

Or . Works for any U.S. ZIP code.

Our role

F3 brings people together.
CORD helps them work as one.

When a storm hits, churches, relief groups, local officials and businesses all jump in at once. CORD gives them one shared place to see who needs help and what each partner can offer. Every partner keeps its own identity and leadership. F3 helps everyone pull in the same direction.

See needs near youOn one live map, updated by partners on the ground.
Offer what you havePeople, space, equipment or supplies, in about a minute.
Take on a missionAccept work that matches what your group offered.
Keep your status currentSo others know you’re open, and what you can do.

See the partner view How CORD works

CORD partner view for a church during a tornado response: active needs nearby, buttons to report a need or offer help, missions waiting for volunteers and the church's current status. — Example screen. Names and figures are made up.

01 / F3 Intelligence

Useful answers.
Grounded in trusted information.

F3 Intelligence will let partners ask a question in plain words and get a clear answer, drawn only from guidance we trust. Every answer shows where it came from, so you can check it yourself.

It works from approved guidance, partner playbooks and current disaster data. When an answer could lead to an important decision, a person reviews it first.

Retrieve guidance relevant to your question and geography.
See the evidence and date behind an answer.
Turn findings into checklists and briefings your team can review.

Coming soon

F3 INTELLIGENCEHow it works

EXAMPLE PARTNER QUESTION

What should our church confirm before offering its building for disaster support?

Retrieve the right material

Find approved facility, safety and coordination guidance relevant to the partner’s role.

Make the evidence visible

Show the supporting document, relevant passage, publication date and any gaps.

Prepare a useful next step

Prepare a site-readiness checklist for the coordinator to review and adapt.

Example only. This shows how an answer comes together. Nothing happens automatically.

02 / Maps & Insights

A clearer picture.
A better place to start.

Esri ArcGIS is the foundation for geographically organized analysis, bringing environmental conditions and partner reports into a shared operating picture.

More data layers coming

Open the live map See the eight ways F3 helps a community

CORD common operating picture showing an example county map, partner churches and needs.

Explore the CORD operating picture ↗

PLANNED GEOSPATIAL INPUTS

Weather & hazards

Conditions, alerts and forecast context.

Satellite & aerial imagery

Visual evidence before and after an event.

PolicyMap community data

Neighborhood context, subject to licensed access.

Faith-partner field reporting

Local needs, site status and available capacity.

Access varies by role. Sensitive operational and household information stays out of public views. Map shown uses example data.

03 / F3 Academy

Prepare the people
who show up.

Free training for anyone who wants to help when disaster hits. You don't need any experience. Start with six short courses based on free federal emergency training, written in plain words.

Open now8 courses, no sign-up needed

Start the training

THE TRAINING PATH

Everyone

Six courses every volunteer takes. How a disaster response is organized, working with other groups, staying safe and caring for people.

Open

By role

Extra courses for the job you'll do, like working in a shelter or leading a preparedness session.

Open

Team leads

Courses for people who will lead teams and coordinate with partners.

Planned

Each course has a short guide, a checklist you can print and a quiz. They're based on free government courses but don't give an official certificate. To earn one, take the original course from the federal Emergency Management Institute.

Gregg Phillips at the F3 studio desk, speaking into a studio microphone while studying hurricane radar on two monitors.

F3 NEWS

Information that
moves with the mission.

04 / News

From the operating picture
to the people who need it.

Weather briefings, partner updates, stories from the field and practical resources, so everyone knows what is happening and what it means for their work.

WatchVideo briefings, webinars and podcasts

BlogStories from the field and updates from F3

Reports & ResourcesSituation reports, guides and checklists to download

Coming soon

Coming next

Survivor Reach

Reach them first.

When a storm knocks out a neighborhood, the signal goes dark before anyone calls for help. F3 will see where, send a simple check-in, and connect people to a real person who can help.

See where it’s darkSignal and neighborhood data show which blocks were hit hardest. Where, never who.
Check inA short message through partner alerts and church lists: we see your area was hit hard. Are you okay?
“Help me”One tap starts a 90-second request that works offline and sends when the signal returns.
A real person answersA faith-based call center listens, prays if you want, and routes each need to a trusted partner.
One file, yoursNeeds, help received, photos and damage imagery stay in one file the survivor owns.
Tell your story onceWith your OK, we start your federal, housing and state aid applications for you, evidence attached.

Consent first. Survivor information is never combined with political or voter data, and government partners only see totals, never names.

9:411 bar · SOS

F3 · CHECK-IN

Hi, we’re checking on your neighborhood after the storm. We see it was hit hard. Are you okay?

I’m okayI need help

Water & foodRoof / tarpMedicalShelterMuck-outPower / oxygenPrayer / a visit

📞 Talk to someone nowA real person, not a phone tree · Example

Coming next

Volunteer Time Bank

Every hour you give can count twice.

Most people don’t know this. After a declared disaster, the value of volunteer time on eligible work can count toward the share of recovery costs a state and its communities must pay before federal funding covers the rest. It counts whether you live down the street or drove in from another state.

Find meaningful workSign up once, share your skills, and see projects near a disaster that need you.
Check in on siteYour phone records your time, place and task. It works offline.
The team lead confirmsPartner organizations approve hours, so every record holds up.
Your community gets creditF3 turns approved hours into the records local officials need to claim it.

Run by F3 and open to partner organizations, so they can put people to work faster and keep good records without building their own system.

One Saturday, one town

An example

Debris crew · 40 volunteers × 8 hrs	320 hrs
Roof tarping · 30 volunteers × 8 hrs	240 hrs
Meals & supplies · 30 volunteers × 8 hrs	240 hrs
800 hours at about $30 an hour	≈ $24,000

That’s about $24,000 a community wouldn’t have to find on its own. Hourly values are set locally and depend on the type of work.

CORD · Coordinated Operations for Relief & Disaster

One hub for the partners who stand watch.

“I have made you a watchman.”EZEKIEL 33:7

CORD is the partner platform F3 is building behind a secure login. It connects groups already doing great work, so each one can multiply the others, with F3 helping to coordinate and support.

One shared pictureNeeds, offers and verified capacity on the same map.

A human duty deskRequests matched to the right partner, in their lane.

A verified registryWho is ready, where, and at what real capacity.

Clean reports for governmentFaith-sector contributions, shared only with each partner’s OK.

See the partner portal See the command picture See the reporting forms

Join CORD as a partner

Neighbors of many backgrounds at a volunteer training class, practicing with checklists and a first aid kit.

05 / Partner Network

A common table.
Not a new chain of command.

F3 connects the faith community with local, county, tribal, state and federal counterparts, alongside providers, businesses and donors.

FAITH & COMMUNITY

Churches, ministries
& recovery organizations

Bring local trust, practical capacity and experience.

PUBLIC-SECTOR COORDINATION

Local, county, tribal,
state & federal partners

Connect through the appropriate authorities and agreed roles.

RESOURCES & EXPERTISE

Providers, businesses
& donors

Bring goods, services, expertise and support where needed.

Partners remain the operators.

Keep your mission, brand, relationships and deployment authority. F3 contributes technology, data and coordination, not a competing field operation.

Start a partnership conversation

Agency names describe intended coordination relationships, not government endorsement or a claim of delegated authority.

06 / Marketplace

What is needed.
What is available.
A way to connect them.

A shared marketplace for organizations at every level to find, donate, offer and procure the items, commodities and services that response and recovery require.

Start with clear needs and accountable providers. Add transactions only where availability, responsibilities and fulfillment can be confirmed.

Marketplace coming soon

Discuss marketplace participation

THE RESOURCE EXCHANGEHow it works

FIND WHAT YOUR ORGANIZATION NEEDS

Start with a specific need.

Browse relevant commodities, equipment and services by category, location and availability.

Describe the item or service.
Confirm the quantity, location and timing.
Connect with an appropriate provider.

Water & foodPower & equipmentTransportRecovery services

Example only. Live inventory and checkout are coming.

A focused first release

Build with the partners.

The first release is about a useful daily resource and a clear path into the network. Access to each service will open as its content, workflows and safeguards are ready. Next come CORD for partners, plus Survivor Reach and the Volunteer Time Bank for individuals.

START HERE

Introduce your organization

Use the Join form to share who you are and begin a conversation about your work.

Open the Join form

COMING SOON

Partner intelligence

A first release built on approved material, with source-grounded answers and a review process.

ROLLOUT BY READINESS

Connected services

Maps, Academy, communications and marketplace workflows are introduced as each is validated.

Explore the six capabilities ↑

Explore the operating experiencePartner portal ↗Command picture ↗Reporting forms ↗

FAQ

What is F3?

F3 stands for Faith. Friends. Family. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that helps churches, neighbors and response groups get ready for disasters and help each other through them.

Who started F3?

F3 was founded by Gregg Phillips, who has spent decades leading disaster response teams in the United States and around the world. Read his story.

Are F3's tools free?

Yes. The weather alerts, readiness maps and volunteer training on this site are free for everyone.

Where does F3 work?

We are starting along the Gulf Coast and across the South. Anyone in the United States can join and take the free training.

Is F3 a government agency?

No. F3 is an independent nonprofit. We work alongside emergency managers, churches and community groups, and every partner keeps its own identity and leadership.

Are gifts to F3 tax-deductible?

Yes. F3 is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN 39-2948146, so gifts are tax-deductible to the extent the law allows. Give to F3.

What should I do in an emergency?

If anyone is in danger, call 911. For food, shelter or other local help, call or text 211.

Faith. Friends. Family.

Your work is the mission.
Let’s make the connection.

I want to serve Connect my church or group Join CORD as a partner

When disaster strikes,we get through it together.