Operation Northern Comfort is an organization of community volunteers empowering and giving hope to those in need.
After Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast in 2005, Operation Southern Comfort (OSC) was formed. Fifty trips were taken to the ravaged parts of Louisiana and Mississippi to rehabilitate, rebuild, and repair homes—and lives.
2,200 volunteers, including 1,200 students, participated for nine days – traveling 1,400 miles on the weekend, working for five days, and returning the following weekend. OSC built four homes and worked on over 200 more, planted 13,000 trees, donated three trailers full of school supplies, books, clothing and musical instruments, and brought hope to thousands of Gulf Coast residents.
In 2012, it became apparent that there were people in Central NY that could use our help, and Operation Northern Comfort was born. We fix bathrooms, enlarge doors, build ramps—whatever we can physically do, we do. In 2014, we built our first home in CNY after a fire destroyed one. As we grew, we partnered with Arise of Central New York, Tiny Homes for Good, North Area Meals on Wheels, Eastern Farm Workers Association, and other non-profit and social work organizations to serve those in need.
Operation Northern Comfort seeks to improve the living conditions of those in need and to give hope to those who call on it, regardless of racial ethnicity, gender, religious faith or age. Likewise, it welcomes a volunteer base which is inclusive and diverse to better serve the entire community.