After the devastating July 4th floods destroyed over 400 homes in the Hill Country community, families are confronting the overwhelming challenge of rebuilding—some with empty houses ready for furnishing, others starting from the ground up after their homes were swept away entirely.
Arcadia Recovery Collaboration helps flood survivors turn those rebuilt and restored spaces back into fully furnished homes - complete with beds, kitchen essentials, and everything needed to rebuild daily life.
Recovery of this scale will take all of us—from design professionals to neighbors near and far.
We’re here to walk alongside our neighbors through the long months of recovery, helping them return home again.
HOW IT WORKS
A simple 4 step process to help you in your process of returning home again
1.SUBMIT A "HOME HELP" FORM
This simple form let’s us know that you would like Arcadia Recovery Collaboration’s help in furnishing your home once reconstruction is completed. We realize that there are many unknowns. Submit your form and then we can work with you on the timeline and scale based on your needs.
Install Day brings together your family, Project Manager, and volunteer team to transform your house room by room. Working together, we’ll move in your new furnishings and arrange each space to be comfortable, functional, and ready for daily life.
3. INSTALL DAY
2. DEVELOP YOUR PROJECT PLAN
Your volunteer Project Manager, a skilled design professional, will meet with you to assess your space and match you with furnishings that fit your home and lifestyle. These experienced volunteers provide guidance to help transform your house back into a functional, welcoming home.
4. WELCOME HOME BASKET
Your Welcome Home Basket is a care package welcoming your family into your space. It’s a gift of love put together by volunteers to marks this step of your recovery journey, as you officially move into a place that feels like home again.
This truly is a grassroots, collaborative effort that needs us all sharing our skills, connections, time and resources. Here are some direct ways that you can partner in the effort to help support Hill Country families return home.
WAYS TO HELP
THANK YOU!
DONATE FINANCIALLY
Your financial contributions help provide essential items that go directly into a family’s home. ARC is an initiative of Impact Guild, a 501c3 nonprofit and all donations are tax-deductible.
DONATE IN-KIND FURNISHINGS
(PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ONLY)
Donate quality household items—from beds and sofas to lamps and appliances—that will help transform empty houses back into comfortable, functional homes.
Due to capacity, we are only accepting donations from organizations such as furniture manufacturers and industry professionals at this time. No in-kind furniture donations will be accepted from individuals at this time.
Join our hands-on volunteer teams to help move furniture on Install Day or prepare Welcome Home Baskets that mark each family’s journey home. Review the form for a full list of opportunities.
VOLUNTEER
VOLUNTEER PROJECT MANAGER
(INDUSTRY EXPERTISE REQUIRED)
Your design eye. Your project management skills. Your vendor relationships. If you are a design professional, volunteer as a Project Manager, to use your design expertise to work directly with families to assess their needs and curate furnishings that create beautiful, functional living space.
Join our next virtual Project Manager Training on February 6 to learn more about the process.
“This house welcomed the weary flood victims back home… and it was the soft landing I had hoped for. It felt like the old home but fresh and new. A place to make new memories for generations to come. Thank you.”
- Keri Wilt
We are neighbors who live along the Guadalupe or were formed along its banks. We have been residents in Kerrville for over 40 years and in the design/build industry for longer than that. Our neighborhood, Arcadia Loop, is the inspiration for the name because the strength of neighbors helping neighbors is the core of this initiative. We are a family coming together to use our skills to help and to collaborate with friends new and old. Read a letter from Howell & Debbie Ridout, Arcadia Recovery Collaboration’s program co-leaders for a more full story.
WHO WE ARE
ARC is an initiative under the Impact Guild, a community development 501c3 nonprofit. With a mission to connect resources with neighborhood needs, ARC is an opportunity to bridge Kerr County to other central Texas communities such as San Antonio, Austin and beyond support our neighbors through flood recovery. Additionally, Impact Guild’s Climate Ready Neighborhoods program focuses on supporting neighborhoods when natural disasters hit and in building resilience through the recovery process.
