Want to know how your community would fare in a future disaster?
Visit its events and cultural venues today.
Disaster response starts with neighbors, not strangers. When professional help can take 72 hours or longer to arrive, communities with robust social networks make better evacuation decisions, conduct faster search and rescue, and provide more effective immediate relief. Arts and culture professionals and local event organizers already have the trust, communication channels, and many of the operational skills to support coordinated action when disaster strikes, if they’re properly prepared and connected with local emergency management.
The Tabletop
Our tabletop exercise is a fun, hands-on way to start the conversation about disaster readiness. Start finding new ways to position your existing capacities and quickly identify priorities to work toward. Plus there are M&Ms.
The Training
Our 15-hour Foundations Certificate in Event & Emergency Operations grounds you in the skills and systems that deliver successful events on blue sky days and become lifelines for communities when disaster strikes.
The Toolkit
Ready to make a difference? We've prepared fact sheets, resolution language, and partnership frameworks to help you lead the change toward readiness in your own organization or your local community.
