Resilience through Social Good

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Disaster Recovery, a Lesson from LEGO

Bringing together diverse groups involved in disaster response is like creating a LEGO masterpiece. The process may seem easy but it is not simple. Critical to a seamless and resilient recovery is fostering an environment where the ecosystem of disaster recovery stakeholders can convene on equal footing, the volunteer reception center is one such model.

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Using Creativity and Innovation to Engage Communities

This Thursday, July 27th at 10:30am Resiliency Advisors joins the city of Semarang and innovator Pacifico at the 100 Resilient Cities conference . Together we will be hosting a session to discover new effective tools to engage communities, tap into local knowledge and build resilience. We will share lessons learned from Semarang, Haiti, Chile and the US including the story of experiments with citizen sensors, musical early warning systems and surviving devices. Participants will learn from these successful initiatives to tackle risk caused by earthquakes, floods, pollution and climate change. This workshop will provide training and knowledge sharing for resilience practitioners and will help advance the implementation of urban resilience in their own cities, engaging citizens and communities along the way.

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Growing Cyber Threats

Cyber Threats: Affecting the Financial Industry and the "Internet of Things" Prashanth Mekala - Supervisory Special Agent, FBI speak to the issues. The FBI provides a brief on the risks the "Internet of Things" presents in this highly connected world. Learn about the different threats that could impact your firm and how to adapt response plans accordingly. Hear about how the FBI can help when a cyber-related incident occurs.

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@CPEworldwide learning about CyberThreats

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@CyberThreat The Anatomy of a Cyber Threat as presented by the FBI

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Thank you @CPE for a great presentation on Cyber Threats. Reviewing what happens. This is an issue for all of us large and small.

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Our thoughts are with those that have suffered and those that have responded

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What's Your Perspective?

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Defend Volunteerism

Volunteers have paved the way for nonprofit organizations and actors in civil society by demonstrating compelling and admirable characteristics through their investment in communities. According to the Corporation for National and Community Service, 62.6 million of the country’s 321,773,631 residents volunteered through or in support of an organization at least once between September 2014 and 2015, totaling over seven billion hours of time. One volunteer saves an estimated $23.56 per hour, and in 2015, those 62.6 billion volunteers saved an estimated $184 billion. While these volunteer agencies serve to maintain the good of society, their existence has now been placed at risk. A multitude of federal budget cuts totaling $18,000,000,000 has recently been proposed. The institutions included in the budget cut support the thousands of volunteer organizations that are registered in the United States, through grant making. The US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are expected to lose at least $1 billion of their grantmaking capacity. Both agencies have continuously supported volunteerism, community engagement and research initiatives pertaining to the advancement of society. Cutting federal funding for these agencies is detrimental not only to our volunteers, but also to the work of all volunteer programs/initiatives throughout the country and the constituents that they serve. It is the duty of our representatives to act in the pursuit of our best interest, and cutting volunteerism initiatives from the federal budget is not in the best interest of the people. You may find your representative’s contact information by visiting http://www.house.gov/ and entering the zip code of your district. By helping prevent this budget’s approval in Congress, we are defending the work of volunteers and those they serve.

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Redeveloping Haiti's agriculture, one plant at a time.

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Resilience, Capturing #cleanwater from a mountain spring using leaves.

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The Missing Link between Social Media and Disaster Response

Six years ago was a pivotal point for nonprofits and the impact that social media would have on their efforts. On January 12, 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti killing over 30,000 people. What happened next was unprecedented even by the large non-profits such as the Red Cross. With their texting campaign primarily promoted via Facebook, they were able to raise more than $20+million for the Haitian relief efforts.

Although social media provided timely information about the crisis in Haiti, social media platforms could not provide a standard mechanism designed for collaboration and coordination between those affected, non-profits and first responders. Social media helped to raise money, awareness and inspired every day people to get involved but once on the ground, Facebook could not be leveraged to deploy organized groups with proper guidance on what needed to be done. Alison Fine, author of Networked Non-profits, put it best when she said “We, as a community of non-profit causes using social media, get an A+ for speed and efficiency, and A+ for an outpouring of concern and caring during the immediate impact of this devastating tragedy for one of the poorest countries in the world. However, those high grades may not hold up during the long, painful process of recovery ahead."

Disaster Relief via Social Media In 2016 

To read more or reply http://www.readyresponders.org/blog/missing-link-between-social-media-and-disaster-response

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As we approach the fifteenth commemorative anniversary of 9-11-2001 the topic of #Resiliency grows ever more important. #Emotional Agility and how effective leaders manage their negative thoughts and feelings is critical in community lead disaster response. We will be referencing several resources include #On Emotional Intelligence and what make a leader with a focus on the incredible stress that emergency management professionals and emergent leaders must withstand to successfully lead their communities from tragedy to triumph. Please weigh in and share your experiences and helpful practices.