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.

Council on Foundations (CF) - Disaster Philanthropy

Council on Foundations

Provides guidance to local government and organizations on basic tips for disaster giving, disaster recovery resources, recovery planning guidance, and other valuable information.

U.S. Department of Agriculture Atlas of Rural and Small Town America 

Department of Agriculture - Economic Research Service

Interactive data tool allowing users to view statistics on people, jobs, and agriculture.

Community Facilities Infrastructure Toolkit

Department of Agriculture - Rural Development

Toolkit produced by USDA Rural Development's Community Facilities Program, providing guidance on essential community facility infrastructure development.

Using GIS to find OnTheMap Resources for Emergency Management

Department of Commerce - Bureau of the Census

GIS data resource including over 90 variables characterizing the built environment, transit service, destination accessibility, employment, and demographics at the census block group scale to better serve emergency managers.

Community Resilience Economic Decision Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure Systems

Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology

Guide developed by NIST providing standard economic methodology for evaluating investment decisions aimed at improving the ability of communities to adapt to, withstand, and quickly recovery from disruptive events.

Community Resilience Planning Guide Briefs

Department of Commerce - National Institute of Standards and Technology

​NIST's Community Resilience Planning Guide Briefs explain concepts discussed in the Community Resilience Planning Guide for Buildings and Infrastructure.

Risk Behavior & Risk Communication: Synthesis & Expert Interviews

Department of Commerce - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

NOAA sponsored report discussing risk communication and risk management, particularly for local government officials in coastal areas to better understand and manage risk related to development.

CanVis Visualization Software

Department of Commerce - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Visualization tool used to show potential impacts from coastal development or sea level rise to support policy development, project planning, and presentations.

Achieving Hazard-Resilient Coastal & Waterfront Smart Growth

Department of Commerce - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Web page providing a library of coastal and waterfront related resilience resources that incorporates smart growth practices and hazard mitigation into planning.

PUBLICATION - Habitat Priority Planner: Enhancing Participatory GIS in Conservation Planning (August 2008) 

Department of Commerce - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

Tool to support local decisions about conservation, restoration, and planning by providing a means of obtaining critical habitat analyses that are consistent, repeatable, and transparent.

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