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Building Resilience Together - Private Sector Partnerships with FEMA

Learn how FEMA collaborates with businesses, academia, NGOs, and more to prepare, protect, respond, recover, and mitigate hazards. Discover success stories and resources to enhance resilience. Join us in creating a safer future together.

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Building Resilience Together - Private Sector Partnerships with FEMA

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  1. FEMA Private SectorOffice of External Affairs

  2. FEMA Mission Private Sector Overview Private Sector Overview FEMA’s mission is to support our citizens and first responders to ensure that as a nation we work together to build, sustain, and improve our capability to prepare for, protect against,respondto,recoverfrom, and mitigate all hazards.

  3. Who is the Private Sector? • Businesses • Academia • Voluntary • Faith-based • Non-governmental Organizations

  4. Private Sector Division

  5. Some times we all have needs

  6. Some times we all have capabilities

  7. We can always communicate • Ground Floor • Connecting the Dots • Dialogue • Two-Way Communication • Actionable • Information • Increased Understanding

  8. Success Stories: Prepare More than 300 first responders, some who came from as far away as Germany, converged in College Station over the weekend to sharpen their search and rescue …

  9. Success Stories: Protect Most campuses use video surveillance…Queens College built an IT solution to detect an unattended bag, a particular license plate, or a certain individual, and then automatically initiate actions such as notifying staff…

  10. Success Stories: Respond

  11. Success Stories: Recover • Lynn University students visited Haiti to help orphans and handicapped children, adults and the elderly. • After the earthquake, four students and two professors were lost and a memorial fund was established in their honor.

  12. Success Stories: Mitigate

  13. Benevolence Advice & counsel Get a kit. Make a plan. Be informed Prepare our facilities Prepare our constituents and communities Advance Technology Work together to prepare, protect, respond, recover, mitigate Your best ideas…. What We Can Do Together

  14. Web Resources www.fema.gov/privatesector

  15. Contact Information E-mail us at: FEMA-Private-Sector@dhs.gov

  16. Questions?

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