When Hurricane Harvey made landfall in the Houston area in the last week of August, the disaster was met with an outpouring of relief efforts.

ToolBank USA, a nonprofit that was founded 26 years ago as the Atlanta Community ToolBank, also sprang into action. The organization houses a large inventory of tools available on a rental basis to local nonprofits and charities, who can lease them for 3% of their retail value for up to eight weeks at a time.

Recovery efforts were quick to mobilize. The Houston ToolBank waived its rental fee and oversaw distribution of tools to a swath of aid groups.

Then, just a week later, Hurricane Irma struck Florida. Pulled in two directions, ToolBank began looking for potential resources to direct toward the devastation caused by the second storm. In Atlanta, they had three more pallets of tools set for UPS to deliver to Houston; they stopped those and sent them instead to Florida.

When ToolBank reached out to their usual donor pool, they heard the same thing over and over, Russart tells Fast Company: People had put everything they could into Harvey efforts.

Read the full article by Eillie Anzilotti at FastCompany