SNAP CEO Evan Spiegel and CEO of the California Community Foundation, Miguel Santana will focus on helping Altadena and Pacific Palisades residents rebuild on their own terms after last month's wildfires The program has been started.
The California Community Foundation, SNAP, SPIEGEL, and SNAP CTO Bobby Murphy provide $10 million in funding to staff in a program called the Angels Department.
“Our aim is to ensure that communities affected by Eton and Palisade's Megafire are ordering their own recovery,” reads a press release that announced the program. “The Angels Department is not a government or private sector initiative. It is a grassroots, community-driven network focused on ensuring that affected residents manage their recovery.”
The Angels department provides independent resources and project management support to support affected residents and works with existing community leaders and organizations.
Last month, Spiegel wrote to the Los Angeles community, touching on how he grew up in Pallisard. He noted that his father's house was lost in a wildfire.