Pre‑disaster funding
Resources positioned early so partners don’t start from zero.
Public-benefit L3C · Japan-focused
Japan shouldn’t face the next disaster unprepared.
TASK L3C builds the readiness layer that allows frontline NGOs and NPOs to respond immediately — with funding, coordination, and capacity already in place.
Vision
What Working Together Looks Like
Imagine a major disaster hits Japan. Readiness is already in motion. Frontline organizations are not scrambling to begin — they are prepared to act.
A vital resource, funding, is already positioned during pre‑disaster planning and priority needs.
Mutual‑aid roles are mapped across partner NGOs and NPOs before the event.
International supporters know who to find and how to help immediately.
Lives will be saved and communities will recover faster because readiness was strengthened in advance.
This is the future TASK L3C is building — before another event. For the fuller vision, see the Vision page.
Why now
The stakes are predictable
Japan experiences major disasters with predictable frequency. Yet many of the NGOs and NPOs who respond first are forced to prepare without stable pre‑disaster funding, mutual support, or international readiness already in place.
- Preparation gaps cost time, capacity, and lives.
- Frontline organizations are asked to do the impossible without runway.
- Global supporters want to help, but can’t find trusted pathways early enough.
The gap
The missing layer in disaster readiness
Response in Japan is strong, fast, and community‑centered. The weakness is what happens before a disaster — the preparation layer that should already connect funding, roles, and support networks.
Everyday operations
NGOs and NPOs focus on their primary missions across Japan.
Disaster strikes
Organizations move instantly, often without pre‑positioned support.
Readiness bridge missing
Funding, mutual‑aid planning, and international pathways are still catching up.
How TASK closes the gap
Readiness support that protects primary missions
Every organization has a primary mission. TASK L3C strengthens disaster readiness without competing with or distracting from that mission — so core work remains protected and sustainable before, during, and after major events. TASK operates the same way under our parent company, New Wind Therapeutics L3C, which maintains its own primary mission.
Capacity building
Planning, training, and tools built with local expertise.
Bridging & mutual support
Connecting Japanese organizations with prepared global allies.
Explore the full operating model on the Programs page.
Why trust TASK
Readiness built from lived experience
TASK L3C is grounded in decades of direct work inside Japan’s disaster response ecosystem and long‑term partnerships with trusted NGOs and NPOs.
250+
Programs supported across Tohoku and Fukushima
$20M+
International humanitarian assistance delivered
2011–Now
Embedded work with Japan‑based NGOs/NPOs
Join the readiness layer
Where you fit
For Japanese NGOs & NPOs
You’re already doing the work that protects communities. The challenge is that most of the world doesn’t know how to find you.
There are millions of us who want to support Japan’s readiness, but we don’t know who to find or how to help before disaster strikes. TASK is the lens that brings this work into view — so frontline organizations are seen, heard, recognized, and supported in time.
Start the conversationFor donors & partners
If you want your support to matter before an emergency, TASK offers a trusted pathway to strengthen readiness with Japanese NGOs and NPOs right now.
Talk with TASKContact
Contact TASK L3C
Email: carl@tokyotaskforce.com
Or use our intake form on the Contact page.