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.

Flood Resilience Checklist

Environmental Protection Agency

This checklist can be used to assess a community’s readiness to prepare for, deal with, and recover from floods.

EnviroAtlas Interactive Map

Environmental Protection Agency - Center for Public Health and Environmental Assessment

This easy to use, interactive mapping application does not require any GIS skills to use and provides ready access to 500+ maps and multiple analysis tools.

Smart Location Database

Environmental Protection Agency - Smart Growth

GIS data resource includes over 90 variables characterizing the built environment, transit service, destination accessibility, employment, and demographics at the census block group scale.

Planning for Flood Recovery and Long-Term Resilience in Vermont: Smart Growth Approaches for Disaster Resilient Communities

Environmental Protection Agency - Smart Growth

Document that details EPA's Smart Growth Resources.

Tools for Communicating with all Audiences, Including People with Disabilities

Federal Emergency Management Agency

?Training materials detailing process for whole community engagement in disaster recovery.

FEMA Media Library

Federal Emergency Management Agency

The FEMA Media Library of videos and documents provides case studies of all disaster types with real world examples.

Searchable Resources for Community Leaders from DisasterAssistance.gov

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Resource for community leaders, designed for community members search for resources to help prepare for, react to, or recover from a disaster.

Contracting with Federal Funds for Goods and Services Before, During and After Disasters

Federal Emergency Management Agency

FEMA site with multiple resources and guidance for procurement under FEMA grants and programs.

FEMA Building Science Resource Library

Federal Emergency Management Agency

Guidance on various building science / multi-hazard publications such as the FEMA Policy and Building Code Decision Tree, Post-disaster Building Safety Evaluation Guidance, and protecting businesses from natural hazards.

Long-Term Community Recovery Toolbox: Decision Making Tool

Federal Emergency Management Agency

A ready.gov portal for information about Community Emergency Response Teams including how individuals can get involved.

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