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Building Resilience: How FEMA and HUD’s Partnership Enhances Housing Recovery
Preparation is crucial in disaster management. This truth underscores the recently released Pre-Disaster Housing Planning Initiative (PDHI) 2023 Final Report by FEMA and HUD, which offers a deep dive into the critical need for preemptive housing recovery strategies.
Strengthening Our Future: Enhancing Flood Resilience Nationwide
As the remnants of Hurricane Beryl continue to impact a large portion of the country, it serves as the latest all too often reminder of the growing threat of extreme weather and flooding we face as a nation.
Together in Pride: Building a Resilient and Inclusive Community
For me, celebrating Pride as a member of the LGBTQIA+ community is a time when we come together to celebrate our love and resilience, united by a shared journey of self-love and self-acceptance.
FEMA Revolutionizing Federal Disaster Assistance: A New Era for Survivors
In the intricate world of federal disaster policy, changes are often like small tremors in FEMA’s Recovery programs. However, the proposed updates to FEMA’s Individual Assistance program signal a monumental tectonic shift in favor of disaster survivors in the United States.
2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season: Reflecting on Another Active Year
The 2023 Atlantic Hurricane Season concluded with a total of 20 named storms, making it an above-normal season and the 4th most active hurricane season on record.
Bridging the Digital Divide: The Impact of Strategic Communications in Broadband Implementation
Communication, communication, communication. Creating an effective and inclusive communications plan is critical to a successful broadband program. As the former Program Manager for the Virginia Telecommunication Initiative (VATI), I saw first-hand the impact a well-thought-out communications plan has on building constituent trust, raising program awareness, and soliciting stakeholder feedback and buy-in for a broadband project.
Embracing Compliance in Broadband Infrastructure
Compliance – that one word often strikes fear into anyone who hears it. We roll our eyes and think about the time-consuming minutia involved when all we want to do is get our program working and our funding out the door. Why do we dread this word and its associated tasks?
A Guide to Broadband Technical Assistance: Lessons Learned
As a firm committed to advancing communities through resilience building, IEM stands ready to support federal, state, local, and tribal partners in their efforts to increase and improve broadband connectivity for all.
IEM Health Reflects on COVID-19 Pandemic Response
This year, the world is three years beyond the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although humanity suffered great losses, there has also been incredible scientific progress in dealing with the virus.
African American Advancement in Emergency Management Fields Saves Lives, Leads to Social Change
Although disasters disproportionately impact African Americans, according to research, better representation in the emergency management industry could support building resilience and preparedness within these communities – and lead to so much more.
IEM Webinar – Emergency Management Lessons Learned: Civil Unrest and Protests
The discussion focused on the speakers respective agencies addressed civil unrest and protests this year and strategies for addressing inequity in emergency management.
IEM Wildfire Recovery Capabilities
IEM offers states, cities and counties that are recovering from catastrophic wildfires unparalleled experience and administrative skill in disaster planning and recovery. IEM is unique among emergency management firms for its cadre of over 200 in-house, all-hazards disaster recovery planning and recovery experts. Over its 33-year history, IEM has amassed an unrivaled degree of hands-on […]
IEM Air Supports Hurricane Response in the Caribbean
IEM’s AirOps team has been on the ground and in the air supporting response and recovery operations in the Caribbean since Hurricane Irma. The team also helped with evacuations before Hurricane Maria made landfall.
