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.

Citizen's Advisory Recovery Team (CART) website for Joplin Recovery

Citizen's Advisory Recovery Team (CART) for Joplin, Missouri

Joplin's Citizen Advisory Recovery Team Website serves as an example of what can be done to encourage communication and collaboration after you have set up a recovery team.

Joplin, Missouri: An Updated Comprehensive Housing Market Analysis

City of Joplin (Missouri)

Assessment of the impact of the 2011 tornado on the housing market.

Close to Home: An Urban Model for Post-Disaster Housing Prototype Program

City of New York - Housing Recovery

Document highlighting coastal storm housing planning activities that NYC took using lessons learned from Katrina. Additional background information on the program is found at http://www1.nyc.gov/site/whatifnyc/index.page.

NYC, Build it Back Stronger & Safer

City of New York - Housing Recovery

Flyers and handouts for local rebuilding efforts after Hurricane Sandy.

New York City’s Hurricane Sandy Recovery Contracts & Procurement

City of New York - Housing Recovery

Provides an example of how one city used its procurement and contractual policies and procedures to recover from a disaster event.

NYC: Retrofitting Buildings for Flood Risk

City of New York - Planning

Report providing practical examples from a local perspective of the interplay between local, state, and federal building codes and mitigation strategies.

NYC Recovery Index Page

City of New York - Recovery

Website that organizes information on housing recovery, business resiliency, resiliency and infrastructure, and disaster recovery funding information.

Disaster Recovery Tracking Tool

Coastal Hazards Center of Excellence (US Department of Homeland Security Science & Technology Directorate Center of Excellence) and Federal Emergency Management Agency’s New York Joint Field Office

Web-based resource designed to track the progress and quality of post-disaster recovery. The web-based tool provides 84 metrics for tracking progress towards recovery; users can compare pre- and post-disaster status using baseline and current data.

Community Commons

Community Commons

Community of change-makers working to create healthy, equitable, sustainable communities. Find curated tools, resources, and stories to drive work forward.

Community Planning Resources

Community Places with support from The National Lottery "Big Lottery Fund"

Web-based resources from Northern Ireland project that consolidates examples, resources, documention, and tools for community planning, community engagement, collaboration, outcome approach, and achieving alignment.

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