The American Civil Defense Association (TACDA) is a member-supported,

501(c)(3) A 501(c)(3) organization is a United States corporation, trust, unincorporated association or other type of organization exempt from federal income tax under section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code. It is one of the 29 types of 50 ...

nonprofit,

civil defense Civil defense ( en, region=gb, civil defence) or civil protection is an effort to protect the citizens of a state (generally non-combatants) from man-made and natural disasters. It uses the principles of emergency operations: prevention, miti ...

-focused organization founded in 1962. Its primary focus is to educate its membership on emergencies, both man-made and

natural disasters A natural disaster is "the negative impact following an actual occurrence of natural hazard in the event that it significantly harms a community". A natural disaster can cause loss of life or damage property, and typically leaves some econo ...

through various resources. The organization operates the free TACDA Academy and prints a periodical called ''Journal of Civil Defense''. TACDA also sells emergency supplies, such as

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, water purification equipment, emergency rations, CERT equipment, and Mettag

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Tags. In a letter dated October 19, 1988, then sitting president

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praised the work of TACDA.

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