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.

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Rebuilding After Disaster: Going Green from the Ground Up

Department of Energy - Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

Department of Energy guide, developed for community leaders involved in post-disaster reconstruction. Demonstrates opportunities for communities to incorporate green principles and technologies into their rebuilding plans.

Public Health Workbook: To Define, Locate, and Reach Special, Vulnerable, and At-risk Populations in an Emergency

Department of Health and Human Services - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Step-by-step guide for officials to plan for and manage processes to identify, locate and reach at-risk populations during and after an emergency.

Community Development Block Grant - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) Toolkit

Department of Housing and Urban Development

HUD web page that provides guidance for setting up a CDBG-DR program and sample program policies, procedures, and tools for recovery programs and projects.

Disaster Impact and Unmet Needs Assessment Kit

Department of Housing and Urban Development

Resource to guide Community Development Block Grant Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR) grantees through a process for identifying and prioritizing critical unmet needs for long-term community recovery.

eCon HUD Planning Suite, Citizen Participation and Consultation Toolkit

Department of Housing and Urban Development - Community Planning and Development

Planning and public engagement resources to help HUD grantees meet HUD citizen participation requirements by making community and economic development data more accessible to the grantee, its partners, and citizens.

Community Engagement Toolkit

e.Republic, Inc.

A series of tools for planning community engagement to be more purposeful, equitable, transparent, and strategic so that community members are true partners for achieving impact. Requires registration

3 Cities That Used Natural Disasters to Revitalize Their Futures

e.Republic, Inc.

A short article case study of city revitalization after earthquakes and tornadoes: Tuscaloosa AL, Greensburg KS, and San Francisco CA.

Land Use Leadership Alliance Training Program

Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University

​The Land Use Leadership Alliance Training educates local land use leaders on land use law and community decision-making.

EJSCREEN: Environmental Justice Screening and Mapping Tool

Environmental Protection Agency

Online mapping tool that combines demographic and environmental information on places and can be used to identify areas experiencing disproportionate exposure to environmental hazards and impacts.

Energy Resources for State, Local, and Tribal Governments

Environmental Protection Agency

Resources and planning tools to helps communities think about the baseline conditions and opportunities for renewable energy in their community.

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