RAPID/Collaborative Research: Capacity Adjustment, Resilience and Information Sharing in a Network for Good (CARING)

快速/协作研究：公益网络中的能力调整、弹性和信息共享（CARING）

• 批准号: 1901694
• 负责人: Julie Ivy
• 金额: $ 2.05万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-11-01 至 2020-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1901694&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RAPID; Collaborative; Research; Capacity; Adjustment

This Rapid Response Research (RAPID) project will support data collection efforts to capture the after-effects of Hurricane Florence on the Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina (FBCENC). Food Banks operate a unique supply chain network to support people in hunger need in their service region. Natural disasters like hurricanes disrupt the normal operation of a food bank causing a sudden increase in demand, damaging sources of local supplies and upsetting the regular food delivery system. During Hurricane Florence, FBCENC operations were severely disrupted as more than 50 percent of their service network including two branch locations were affected by the storm. Immediately after the storm, FBCENC needed to respond to the disruption caused by Florence while keeping the regular business of satisfying dynamic hunger need. This RAPID NSF project will collect data on the challenges encountered by FBCENC after Hurricane Florence to provide insight for how nonprofit food distribution organizations can prepare, respond, and recover from disruptions to their network. This scientific research contribution thus supports NSF's mission to promote the progress of science and to advance our national welfare. In this case, the benefits will be insights to improve management of humanitarian logistics post disaster which can save lives and reduce economic losses. This RAPID project will collect time sensitive operational information and data related to a food bank network's preparation, incident management and recovery for Hurricane Florence. The research objectives of the project are to: (i) study the decisions taken by a food bank having its operational network undergoing a natural disaster; (ii) scrutinize the responses of the human components (donors, food bank personnel, agency owners, clients) in the disrupted network; (iii) characterize the impact on demand and supply before, during and after a disaster; (iv) identify the optimal trade-offs between equity, efficiency, and effectiveness for disaster preparation and recovery; and (v) distinguish the disaster-related parameters impacting food demand. The project will facilitate the study of how the differences in organizational characteristics and structure affect the ability of food banks (and agencies) to be resilient to the impact of disasters like hurricanes. This project will collect the data necessary to develop smart recommendations for disaster preparedness and response based on field data collected from a large-scale network disruptive event.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这项快速响应研究（快速）项目将支持数据收集工作，以捕获北卡罗来纳州中部和东部食品银行（FBCENC）佛罗伦萨飓风的后效应。食品银行运营着一个独特的供应链网络，以支持其服务地区饥饿需求的人们。诸如飓风之类的自然灾害破坏了食品库的正常运作，导致需求突然增加，损害了当地供应的来源，并破坏了常规的粮食输送系统。在佛罗伦萨飓风期间，FBCENC的运营严重破坏了，因为他们的服务网络中有50％以上包括两个分支机构受到暴风雨的影响。暴风雨过后，Fbcenc立即需要应对佛罗伦萨造成的破坏，同时保持正规业务满足动态饥饿的需求。这个快速的NSF项目将收集有关佛罗伦萨飓风后Fbcenc遇到的挑战的数据，以洞悉非营利性食品分销机构如何准备，响应和从中断对网络的干扰恢复。因此，这项科学研究的贡献支持NSF促进科学进步并促进我们的民族福利的使命。在这种情况下，收益将是改善灾难后人道主义物流管理的见解，这可以挽救生命并减少经济损失。这个快速项目将收集与食品银行网络的准备，事件管理和佛罗伦萨飓风的恢复有关的时间敏感操作信息和数据。该项目的研究目标是：（i）研究拥有自然灾害的食品银行所做的决定； （ii）仔细检查中断网络中人类组件（捐赠者，食品银行人员，代理商，客户，客户）的响应； （iii）表征灾难之前，之中和之后对需求和供应的影响； （iv）确定公平，效率和灾难准备和恢复有效性之间的最佳权衡； （v）区分影响粮食需求的与灾难有关的参数。该项目将促进对组织特征和结构差异的研究如何影响食品银行（和机构）对飓风等灾难的影响的韧性。该项目将根据从大规模网络颠覆性事件收集的现场数据收集必要的数据，以为灾难准备和响应开发智能建议。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛影响的评估来评估值得支持的。