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Partnership for disaster response
Partnership for Disaster Response aims to bring together the many resources and capabilities of the private sector to enhance and accelerate on-the-ground relief and recovery following major natural disasters in the United States and abroad.
Business Roundtable Partnership for Disaster Response
Business Roundtable first activated the Partnership for Disaster Response immediately following Hurricane Katrina. The Partnership is an effort to expand corporate commitment —beyond financial contributions — to respond to natural disasters. The Partnership’s goal is to enhance the efficiency of...
Disaster Management: A Role for the Private Sector
Disasters disrupt business activities on which the local population depends, affecting livelihood recovery and means to earn a living.
Organizational Resilience: Security, Preparedness, and Continuity Management Systems - Requirements with Guidance for Use - American National Standards
Organizational Resilience: Security, Preparedness and Continuity Management Systems - Requirements with Guidance for Use provides an approach for organizations to improve their resilience performance and increase preparedness, according to ASIS.
Preparing employees to be disaster-ready volunteers - a guide to building an effective volunteer training program
This guide provides an overview of key issues for companies to consider when establishing a program to train and deploy employee volunteers to expedite disaster relief. They include: • Engaging employees • Establishing relationships with relief agencies • Tapping skilled volunteers •...
How can my company help? - a guide for country managers in responding to natural disasters
How Can My Company Help? is intended to help you prepare for a local corporate response to a crisis in your country or region. This guide includes information on: building partnerships with relief agencies, assessing on-the-ground needs, identifying the products, expertise, personnel and services...
Rebuilding our communities helping companies set priorities to aid long-term recovery
A community’s recovery from a disaster is a complex and long-term process that involves a range of activities and many participants. Recovery involves shortterm restoration of essential community services as well as long-term rebuilding and, ideally, mitigation against future crises.
Chinese Association for NGO Cooperation (CANGO)
Chinese Association for NGO Cooperation (CANGO) aims to create a strong, empowered network of non-profit organisations to address poverty alleviation, environmental protection and social development in China's poor, remote, and minority-inhabited areas. CANGO acts as an intermediary agency and...
Caritas Internationalis - Iran
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas provides a beacon of hope for tens of millions of women, men and...
Caritas Turkey
Caritas Internationalis is a confederation of 162 Catholic relief, development and social service organisations working to build a better world, especially for the poor and oppressed, in over 200 countries and territories. Caritas works without regard to creed, race, gender, or ethnicity. It...