Wildfires, Climate Change, and How Philanthropy Can Make a Difference: an Interview With Alan Kwok [philanthropy.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 10/21/216:30 PM

By Eden Stiffman, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, October 18, 2021

Alan Kwok began his job as director of climate and disaster resilience at Northern California Grantmakers in November of 2018.

Barely a week later, sparks from a faulty electric transmission line ignited the Camp Fire, which began its devastating spread through Northern California’s Butte County. The blaze became the most destructive and deadly wildfire in the state’s history, burning an area nearly the size of Chicago.

“There was so much philanthropic interest in supporting communities impacted by the Camp Fire in and surrounding the town of Paradise,” Kwok said in a recent interview.

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