In 1999 GEM founder, Michael Capponi, along with Miami Beach Mayor Neisen Kasdin organized city wide efforts for the victims of the Kosovo Crisis. Over 15,000 pounds of supplies were collected, delivered and donated to Feed the Children organization.
On June 24, 2021, at approximately 1:30 a.m. EDT, Champlain Towers South, a 12-story beachfront condominium building in the Miami suburb of Surfside, Florida, United States, partially collapsed.
In January 2020, the COVID‑19 pandemic began in the United States and is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus.
On August 24, 2019, the Category 5 Hurricane Dorian struck the Bahamas, and was the worst natural disaster in the country’s history with wind speeds of 183 mph and $3.4 billion+ reported damages.