by Susanne | Dec 6, 2022 | 2022 Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving, Disaster Management, Evacuation, Hazards, Leaders, News, Preparedness, Research, Wildfire
On the third day of Thanks and Giving, we give to you … three stories from people who had to flee their homes because of wildfire. Cindy S. (not her real name) was at the grocery store when she received word that the Glass Fire had grown explosively and that...
by Garett Dworman | Dec 2, 2022 | 2022 Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving, Disaster Management, Leaders, News, Preparedness, Training
On the second day of Thanks and Giving, we give to you … two surprising and critical ways to prepare for disaster! What do you think of when we ask you to think about preparing for disaster? Most people would talk about learning what to do and gathering...
by Susanne | Dec 2, 2022 | News
Flu has ripped through our small team. On this day of giving, we’re giving ourselves a break, and postponing today’s Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving post until Monday. In disaster, reality always wins. In everyday life, you sometimes have to...
by Susanne | Nov 29, 2022 | 2022 Twelve Days of Thanks and Giving, News
To celebrate the giving of Thanksgiving and Giving Tuesday, we give to you … twelve days of disaster! Well, maybe just some insights into disaster and community response. Disaster has gone mainstream. From fire to flood, pandemic to power outage,...
by Susanne | May 15, 2022 | COVID-19, Disaster Management, Leaders, News, Recovery, Research
We recently presented the amazingly creative Verbal to Visual community — led by the inspired and inspiring Doug Neill — with a challenge: Create a one-page sketchnote to make the “7 Tips for Being Effective in a Crisis” we identified in our research easy to remember....
by Susanne | Feb 7, 2022 | News, Organization, Update
Thanks to Social Good Fund, our fiscal sponsor, we don’t have to prepare a formal annual report. We do, however, have to report on our accomplishments and talk about our plans for the upcoming year. But we don’t have the trials of preparing financials and...
