Toolkit for Arts Organizations

Coming Soon!

This toolkit helps you document & strengthen your arts or cultural organization’s disaster readiness assets and abilities, catalyzing them into formal assets that boost operational effectiveness during everyday operations while also positioning your organization as an essential partner in community readiness.

The result? Enhanced events. New funding and partnership opportunities. And the confidence that comes from knowing your organization is truly prepared—whether you’re managing a sold-out show or supporting your community through an unexpected crisis.

75% of businesses without continuity plans fail within three years of a disaster. The investment you make now transforms risk into resilience. Are you ready?

We are currently finalizing the toolkit in collaboration with colleagues in emergency management. If you are (or know) an emergency manager, or another authority having jurisdiction over disaster response efforts, we’d value their input. Please have them take our 10-12 minute survey:

Survey for EM & AHJ

Ready to Assess

Document your organization’s existing disaster readiness and response capacity—from your sound systems all the way up to your expertise working with diverse audiences. Using tools developed with emergency managers across 15+ cities, inventory the assets that already make you a valuable community resilience partner.

  • Resilience Self-Assessment, developed with emergency managers to inventory your existing disaster response assets & abilities. Learn more
  • Organizational Resilience Recipes, practical strategies to strengthen your internal organizational resilience, from business continuity to event planning and staff training protocols

Ready to Activate

Connect with local emergency management authorities and build formal partnerships. Our step-by-step protocols and template language help establish your organization as a recognized contributor to community disaster preparedness and response systems.
  • Partnership Guide to connecting with local emergency authorities and identifying disaster readiness initiatives, with templates for reaching out
  • Documentation Templates: Ready-to-use forms to catalog your assets and establish partnerships with emergency management and community organizations

Ready to Amplify

Leverage your documented capabilities and partnerships to secure new funding streams, strengthen grant applications, and expand your role in community resilience initiatives. Transform your disaster preparedness assets into sustainable organizational growth opportunities.
  • Proposal Accelerator: Guiding questions & AI-powered prompts to articulate how your readiness makes your organization a valuable community asset, useful for grant applications, donor presentations, and fundraising projects