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AccuWeather and Good360 are joining forces in a new partnership to strengthen disaster preparedness to get critical resources to communities before, during and after severe weather nationwide. The collaboration combines AccuWeather warnings with proven Superior Accuracy™ with Good360's disaster response network.
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00:00Welcome back.
00:06AccuWeather and Good360 are joining forces in a new partnership
00:10to strengthen disaster preparedness nationwide.
00:13The collaboration combines AccuWeather's forecasts and warnings
00:16with proven superior accuracy with Good360's Disaster Response Network.
00:21AccuWeather is now the official weather partner of Good360
00:24to get critical resources to communities before, during and after severe weather.
00:28The partnership was announced at Climate Week NYC.
00:31Good360 is the nation's leading non-profit group
00:34that delivers donated goods to people in need.
00:37AccuWeather will provide Good360 with forecasts, alerts, consultations
00:41with their team of more than 100 expert meteorologists and other resources.
00:45Good360 will use this information to pre-position supplies, reduce response times,
00:50and ensure the right practices and resources are on the ground
00:53when families need them the most.
00:55Good360 has delivered more than $18 billion worth of donated goods
00:59to people in communities in need after weather disasters.
01:03We're delighted to be partnering with Good360.
01:06This is one of our charitable efforts, charitable outreach,
01:09and we're going to help Good360 do a better job of planning
01:13and being ready for disasters of all sorts.
01:16The partnership with AccuWeather is very valuable and critical for us
01:20in terms of ensuring that we can help build resilient communities
01:25that we're able to move quickly when a disaster strikes
01:29or when a disaster is on its way, like a hurricane.
01:32And it allows us to pre-position product in those communities
01:36for communities that are going to have a need for them.
01:40This opportunity is for us to be able to move faster and be more nimble.
01:46This partnership is about more than immediate recovery.
01:49By pairing AccuWeather's hyper-local forecasts with Good360's long-term recovery model,
01:54they're working to build resilience in underserved communities
01:57and create a stronger, more coordinated response
02:00to the growing impacts of climate-driven disasters.
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