Disaster Resilience Emergency Aid Management

All in one Emergency Aid
Management solution

When disaster strikes, the window to act is short. DREAM gives responders, NGOs, and governments what they need to move fast and get aid to the right people.

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What We Do

DREAM stands for Disaster Resilience Emergency Aid Management. We get verified funds to survivors fast and give funders complete visibility over every dollar.

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Disaster Funds Disbursement

DREAM delivers disaster and aid funds to the right person, at the right time, for the right purpose. Full transaction visibility from the moment money moves.

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Verification Processes

Rigorous KYC and AML checks confirm aid reaches the intended recipient. Fraud has fewer places to hide when every transfer is verified.

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Multilateral Communications

One platform connects federal, state, and local government agencies, NGOs, businesses, and survivors. Everyone sees the same information.

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Spend Controls & Reporting

Anti-fraud controls for when, how, and where funds are used, set by the donors. Detailed management reporting and accounting for every disbursed dollar.

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Scalability & Location Precision

From a local flood to a national catastrophe, the platform adapts. Aid is delivered based on verified location data, not guesswork.

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Resource Coordination

A resource management system that tracks personnel, supplies, and equipment across agencies. Nothing gets lost between handoffs.

Built to work at any scale. Fast deployment, secure transfers, complete oversight.

How it works

Many handoffs and few controls delay funds and create entry points for fraud. DREAM closes every gap, with accountable giving, full reporting, and optional spend controls.

The Old Way: traditional disaster relief fund flow showing multiple handoffs and fraud entry points
The DREAM Way: streamlined disaster relief platform with KYC, spend controls and full reporting
DREAM end-to-end platform diagram showing the full aid delivery lifecycle

Funds delivered to the right person
at the right time

Getting money to survivors shouldn't take weeks. DREAM's Loop_Cards put verified funds in someone's hands within minutes.

Mobile-first delivery

Funds in hand within minutes

DREAM uses emergency relief Loop_Cards to deliver disaster funds quickly, safely, and with dignity. Funders (governments, insurers, NGOs, foundations) can put money in someone's hands within minutes. The mobile tool enables controlled spend at any store, with the option to add disaster-specific features like communications.

DREAM Loop_Card mobile app, hand holding phone showing the DREAM platform
Dynamic reporting

Complete visibility for funders

The platform gives funders real time visibility across all accounts, spend analytics, and more. Every transaction is logged, every account is visible, every dollar is accounted for.

DREAM card platform dashboard showing spend analytics and reporting
Controlled spending

Aid delivered with dignity, at scale

The Loop_Card gives survivors access to funds at any store, with disaster-specific spend controls set by the donor. No bank account required. Funds are ring-fenced for their intended purpose, reducing fraud and ensuring aid reaches those who need it most.

DREAM Loop_Card, the physical and digital card used for disaster relief disbursements

Timely and accurate communications are key in a disaster situation.

Real-time intelligence, at the moment it matters

In a disaster, bad information is as dangerous as no information. DREAM's platform pulls live data from emergency services, weather providers, and field teams, then pushes accurate updates to survivors and responders.

The platform runs extremely data-light microsites to register survivors and determine their location. It crowdsources field conditions, verifies reports, and sends millions of notifications per minute via SMS and email, even on low-bandwidth networks.

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Live weather & hazard data

Sourced from FEMA, emergency services, and third-party providers.

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Millions of notifications/min

SMS and email even on low-bandwidth networks.

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Survivor microsites

Ultra-lightweight registration and location tools for those in the field.

Crowdsourced verification

Information validated across sources before it reaches decision-makers.

DREAM's analytics platform gathers permissioned data from authorized third party services like emergency, weather, and other service providers and pushes up-to-the-minute information to relevant parties, including users and survivors in near real time.

How funds actually reach survivors

The gap between a donor's intent and a survivor's relief has always been filled with handoffs, delays, and fraud. DREAM closes that gap.

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Traditional System

Many handoffs, few controls

Donor / Government

Multiple handoffs

NGOs, intermediaries, agents

Manual verification

Slow, error-prone KYC

Cash distribution

Fraud entry points

Survivor (delayed)

Weeks later, often incomplete

Funds take weeks to arrive, passing through multiple hands. Each step is a potential point of fraud.

DREAM Platform

Fast, secure, accountable

Donor / Government

DREAM Platform

KYC, AML, spend controls

Verified Loop_Card

Digital delivery in minutes

Survivor (immediate)

Full reporting to funders

Accountable giving with optional spend controls. Funds tracked from source to survivor, with reporting back to the funder.

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from event to funds in hand

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transaction accountability

Zero

uncontrolled fraud entry points

The DREAM Team

Deep expertise across fintech, payments, and disaster response, working on one problem: getting aid to the right people fast.

Kirsten Trusko

Kirsten Trusko

Fintech · Payments · Disaster Relief · Humanitarian Aid

Mark Steven

Mark Steven

Disaster Relief · Humanitarian Aid

David Strebinger

David Strebinger

Fintech · Payments · Banking · BaaS · Processing

Samuel Barlow

Samuel Barlow

Computer Science · AI · Entrepreneur

Jeff Sparrow

Jeff Sparrow

Retail · Loyalty · Payment Rails · Investor · Innovator

Justin McCarthy

Justin McCarthy

Branding, marketing and communications strategy, Web2 and Web3 technologies.

Building the coalition that makes humanitarian payments possible.

Associations & Partnerships

DREAM doesn't work alone. We're part of a coalition that makes humanitarian payments faster and more accountable.

PaaL - Payments as a Lifeline

Member Organisation

Payments as a Lifeline (PaaL)

PaaL is a coalition of payments companies that helps charities, foundations, and governments deliver funds to individuals quickly and securely, via Mastercard, wearable, or smartphone.

DREAM's membership in PaaL connects us to the payment infrastructure needed to move money at the speed disasters require.

Visit paalpay.org

Let's Connect

Whether you're a funder, an NGO, a government agency, or just exploring what DREAM can do for your disaster response, we'd like to hear from you. Tell us what you're working on.

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Inquiries

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