Sandy’s Challenge for Grant Makers: Fix Water, Food, and Transit Systems - Opinion - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas

Sandy’s Challenge for Grant Makers: Fix Water, Food, and Transit Systems - Opinion - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: Superstorm Sandy and the subsequent nor’easter laid bare the precarious state of the physical systems that make our cities and towns tick—our infrastructure.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo of New York declared what we have long known: America faces “a new reality when it comes to these weather patterns. We have an old infrastructure and we have old systems, and that is not a good combination.”