- Team Rubicon is a natural
disaster response organization
that takes the skills,
experience and education
of military veterans to
help communities prepare,
respond and recover
from humanitarian crises
or natural disasters.
Over 120,000 volunteers,
managed by a staff of about
170 full-time employees
and about 150 contract employees.
Our vision was to see if
Team Rubicon can be powered
by Microsoft and that's proven
to be the most powerful
investment as we've entered
into this COVID environment.
Over the course of 30 days,
we answered 250 requests for assistance.
We had 169 work sites across the country.
We stood up and are
running a 250 bed overflow
for Santa Clara's 10
hospitals and medical centers.
We are well over 1000 tests
complete in North Carolina.
We have personnel deployed
in the Navajo nation helping
with their response to COVID.
We've responded to six
tornadoes across the southeast
and we've partnered with Feeding America,
helping food insecurity.
When you have that many
different operations ongoing,
logistics is obviously
a huge component of it.
Do you have the right people
going to the right places?
Do you have the right materials?
Is the right PPE in place?
All of this is happening
via a workflow in Dynamics.
We've eliminated as many
barriers as possible.
I think that's the real elegance of
the way the Enterprise
Management System is structured.
Disasters like COVID try
the human spirit in ways
that we could never imagine.
Through communications
and through partnerships
and through really simple acts,
you can move people, you can inspire them.
If we can understand that
every home is connected,
every home is part of a community,
every person that lives
in each of those houses has an obligation,
not only to the people in that home,
but the people in the community,
we'll be better for it.
