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Risk and Resilience: How Weather-Related Disasters Impact Economically Marginalized Communities
Weather-related disaster risks can create new challenges or exacerbate existing ones for individuals, communities, and local economies, especially for low-income communities and communities of color. Community development and resilience professionals can play a vital role in overcoming economic barriers and enhancing disaster resilience by considering resilience strategies that include building organizational capacity within these communities, encouraging wealth building strategies for savings…
Weather-related disaster risks can create new challenges or exacerbate existing ones for individuals, communities, and local economies, especially for low-income communities and communities of color. Community development and resilience professionals can play a vital role in overcoming economic barriers and enhancing disaster resilience by considering resilience strategies that include building organizational capacity within these communities, encouraging wealth building strategies for savings or improving credit scores, making housing more resilient, improving insurance accessibility and affordability, and incorporating community development in the resilience planning process.
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Nonprofits Serve as Emergency Managers
PA Times Online
This article takes a look at a case study of a nonprofit acting as an emergency responder in a crisis and how the community can utilize a nonprofit’s fiscal expertise as an asset in disasters.
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You Have Your MPA! Now What?
PA Times Online
This is pieces highlights advice to recent graduates of MPA programs.
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