Emergency Tarp

Our work Emergency Tarp supports not only disaster survivors in the United States, but also refugees around the globe with Every Shelter. This #GivingTuesday go and take a quick 5 question quiz. Every quiz raises $10 toward shelter solutions for families in East Africa. Plus you get an amazing sticker designed by Dana Tanamachi.

We are giving away FREE samples of our new tarp patch kit! Our kit includes: one 6'x8' durable tarp and cap nails, empowering homeowners and volunteers to quickly and effectively stabilize roofs. If you are interested in receiving this free sample along with providing your feedback, email us by Thanksgiving at hello@emergencytarp.org with shipping instructions and contact info. Samples will be sent early December. As a thank you for your input, we will draw 2 winners after Christmas to receive a $50 gift card to your choice of Amazon or Home Depot.

Thank you to The Vinyl Institute for believing in our work. Your support is so appreciated!

The biggest shoutout to Brian Casady at Meadow Outdoor Advertising for collecting and donating 4,400 billboards to be manufactured into tarps. 650 tarps are now going towards relief efforts in FL due to Hurricanes Milton and Helene. That equates to about 1,625 people who will be helped because of Brian's generosity. Thank you Brian for partnering with us!

Emergency Tarps will be on a truck to FL to help disaster survivors of Helene and Milton next week. And we still have room on the truck! We'd love to help more people and fill up an entire truckload (20 pallets). If you or someone you know would like to buy tarps to send to relief efforts, please contact us at hello@emergencytarp.org. If you mention this CODE: HurricaneRelief2024, we're offering a 10% discount if ordering 1-9 pallets. OR a 20% discount if ordering 10 or more pallets. Visit us at emergencytarp.org for more information.

We are seeing more and more stories of these insurance nightmares from survivors of Milton and Helene. Truly devastating news about their claims. With our tarps lasting longer on roofs (1-2 yrs) compared to standard tarps (a few months), we believe our superior product will benefit any homeowner who needs more time to sort out insurance claims and wait for contractor availability. https://lnkd.in/g5imT_gA

We are humbled to be named Good360's Signature Program- help us get the word out so we can get tarps into the hands (and onto the roofs) of disaster survivors of Helene and Milton!

“Emergency Tarp by Every Shelter is simple and commonsense: used billboards should be repurposed to create durable roof tarps for disaster survivors. Per FEMA, the best option in a disaster is for survivors to be able to shelter-in-place which allows an immediate working solution until timing and/or funds are available to repair the home. The reality is, the existing solution is not durable enough for the time a survivor needs before a repair can be made. The market needs stronger, more durable tarps. We take donated billboards and turn them into disaster tarps by folding them in half and sewing around the edges not only protecting the advertisement inside, but also providing an even more robust solution to disaster survivors." Stefanie Cortez Thank you Billboard Insider for featuring Emergency Tarp. We can all work together to get disaster survivors stronger, longer lasting tarps.

The Vinyl Institute discusses what we know here at Emergency Tarp: vinyl is "highly effective at handling extreme weather conditions". Thanks to grants from The Vinyl Institute, Emergency Tarp has stock ready to create water tight roofs for disaster survivors. Connect us today to your favorite disaster organization so we can get stronger, longer lasting tarps into disaster survivors hands.

How did Every Shelter decide to turn billboards into temporary shelter and emergency roof covering? In 2018, Every Shelter CEO Scott Key Saw a billboard being used to cover a refugee shelter in northwest Lebanon. Just like US domestic blue tarp (made to last 1 month), the United Nations sanctioned tarps used to shelter refugees are not made to last (usually 6-9 months), yet refugees typically spend over 20 years in a shelter made with subpar tarps. What this family did was innovate. They took a billboard after it came down and had already been using it for 2 years with little sign of damage. We began to think, what if we could take this innovation and help even more people both here in the US and refugees overseas? So we began to build relationships and partnerships with some billboard companies and operators. Because of those relationships, we were called to see if we had any billboards after Hurricane Laura hit in 2020. Because of that spark, we were able to go out and help disaster survivors put a stronger, longer lasting billboard on roofs buying time and saving money. To be clear, if the world has tarp experts, it’s these families. They’re forced to rely on these thin membranes for years on end. Emergency Tarp || Every Shelter’s role here is to expand and demonstrate the relevance of this approach both domestically and globally while laying the groundwork to scale this approach to reach as many families as possible. Every Emergency Tarp not only helps US disaster survivors, but it also goes to support our work with refugees Every Shelter.