Community Recovery Management Toolkit

Disaster recovery is a time of tremendous pressure and work at the community level. Local officials are faced with pressure to rebuild quickly, communicate with stakeholders, resolve conflicts, seek funding from a variety of different agencies, and respond to new grant, contract, and financial requirements. However, disaster recovery is also a time of significant opportunity for communities to rebuild in a thoughtful, equitable, and resilient way.

The resources in this toolkit are geared toward helping community leaders through the long-term disaster recovery process and are intended to be useful at any phase of recovery.

Key Post-Disaster Recovery Resource Topics

Browse our "key resources," which are curated collections to help you get started, or search the full library.

Organize and Lead

Are you trying to determine how to organize or lead your community through disaster recovery?

Manage Grants & Finances

Are you concerned about grant management, community finances, or rules about disaster funding?

Assess, Plan & Decide

Do you want to know how to make informed and strategic decisions for your recovery?

Identify Funding Programs

Do you want to know more about disaster recovery funding and assistance programs?

Search the Full Recovery Management Toolkit

Search through the filterable library of recovery management information to quickly find tools, resources, examples and trainings that most fit your community’s needs. Click the resource's title to see all the information.

NOTICE
Resources provided are for informational purposes only and are compiled with publicly available information. Please directly consult the provider of a potential resource for current program information and to verify the applicability and requirements of a particular program. When you go to another website you are subject to its privacy policies. FEMA does not endorse any non-government websites, companies, or applications.

Long-Term Community Recovery Plan: Greensburg & Kiowa County, Kansas

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Sample planning document used to guide recovery efforts in Greensburg and Kiowa Counties following the May 4, 2007 tornado.

St. John the Baptist Parish Community Recovery Strategy

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The St. John the Baptist Parish Community Recovery Strategy chronicles the community-driven planning process that was used to create a blueprint for the future of St. John Parish as it recovered from Hurricane Isaac.

City of Cedar Rapids Neighborhood Recovery Planning Process: Executive Summary

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Provides a framework for the city's neighborhood planning process, the plan's purpose, and presents the city's vision.

Housing Development: A Post-Disaster Workshop in Lyons, Colorado: Housing Recovery Plan 2014

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A housing recovery plan produced for Lyons, Colorado by University of Colorado graduate students. It includes discussion of stakeholder analysis, public engagement, and site design.

Cedar Rapids Flood Recovery: Interview with Christine Butterfield

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Interview with former director of Community Development for the City of Cedar Rapids Iowa, regarding the extensive planning effort to rebuild the City of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after a record-breaking flood in June 2008.

PMI - Project Management Methodology for Post Disaster Reconstruction

Project Management Institute, Inc. (PMI)

PMI's Project Management Methodology is a downloadable file containing instructor, participant and classroom documents, presentations and worksheets available for use by relief agencies, NGOs, and governments following a major disaster.

Webinar Recording: How to Communicate Effectively Before and After a Crisis

RestoreYourEconomy.org

Webinar recording that addresses the unique challenges of communicating with and on behalf of local businesses that have been impacted by a disaster.

Financial Planning for Disasters Webinar and Workbook

Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) and National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)

Webinar to help participants consider their local governments financial vulnerability and their capacity to respond to future natural disasters based on lessons learned responding to tropical natural disasters along the US Gulf States.

East Central Vermont’s Recovery after Tropical Storm Irene Paves the Way for Future Resilience

Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) and National Association of Development Organizations (NADO)

A National Association of Development Organization case study on Vermont's economic recovery post Tropical Storm Irene.

Smart Growth Tools that Local Governments Can Use Now

Smart Growth America

Set of tools for smart growth policy audit, growth code and zoning audit, incentives matrix, strategy builder, and audit summary. Useful for community post disaster redevelopment and growth.

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