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PROJECT IMPACT

Learn about Project Impact and how it aims to make communities disaster-resistant, reducing heavy costs and damage to businesses. Discover the four phases of action and the importance of partnerships, risk assessment, prioritization, and community communication.

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PROJECT IMPACT

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  1. PROJECT IMPACT Building Disaster-Resistant Communities

  2. Heavy Disaster Costs • FEMA spent $20 billion responding to disasters in 49 states over past ten years • Other federal agencies spent billions more • State and local government, private sector and individuals also pay heavy costs

  3. The Damage to Business is Real • Structural loss • Business interruption • Community infrastructure loss • Customer loss • Community loss

  4. Economic Toll from Disasters • Businesses close • People lose their jobs • 40% of small businesses never open again

  5. Project Impact- Working Together • Building Partnerships • Identifying Risks • Prioritizing Needs • Implementing Long-Term Plans To Protect Communities • Community Information Sharing

  6. Making Communities Disaster Resistant Strengthening Structures • Homes • Businesses • Bridges • Roads • Public facilities: schools, hospitals

  7. Making Communities Disaster Resistant • Examining Building Codes • Strengthen codes to meet disaster risks of your community • Restricting Building Areas • Local measures to discourage building in floodplains or high risk areas • Protecting At-Risk Structures • Protect structures in floodplains or high risk areas

  8. PROJECT IMPACT is about cutting disaster costs. Taking Responsibility--Taking Action.

  9. PROJECT IMPACT GOAL is to Make Each and Every Community Disaster-Resistant.

  10. Americans Prepared • Witt launches Project Impact at El Niño summit in Santa Monica in October ‘97 • People took action • Californians secured roofs, cleaned culverts and drains and elevated utilities and electrical panels

  11. El Niño Prevention Pays Off • Despite El Niño related storms and related severe weather, FEMA disaster-related costs remained level.

  12. P R O J E C T I M P A C T A M o d e l f o r C o m m u n i t y A c t i o n

  13. Where It Happens: At the Local Level • 7 pilot Project Impact communities • Over 100 communities by 1999.

  14. Business Partners:Protecting Their Communities • Business partners help to protect their company, employees, and community • Goal to have 500 business partners by September • Small, Medium and Large Companies...Home Depot, Bell Atlantic, Washington Mutual…. • Contingency Planning Exchange Mentoring Program

  15. Businesses Can Contribute-- What They Can Do. • Responsibility to your Company • Anheuser Busch Mitigation Efforts • Responsibility to your Employees • Michael Baker Associates - 10% or $50 off of flood insurance premium • Responsibility to your Community • Washington Mutual - loan program helps to protect their community

  16. The Business Impact is Real • An investment in mitigation gets 100% return -- at least.

  17. The Anheuser-Busch Return • Pre-disaster investment in mitigation efforts saved $300 million in Northridge Earthquake --15X cost of investment in mitigation.

  18. PROJECT IMPACT 4 Phases to a Disaster-Resistant Community 1 Building Partnerships 2 Assessing Risk 3 Prioritizing Needs 4 Keep Your Community Informed

  19. First Phase: Building Partnerships • Organize A Disaster-Resistant Community Planning Committee Invite: • business and industry • public works and utilities • volunteer/community groups • government • education, health care, workforce

  20. Second Phase: Are You Vulnerable?Risk Assessment • What are the community’s risks for natural disasters? • What specific structures and areas are most vulnerable?

  21. Third Phase: Taking ActionSetting Priorities • Identify mitigation priorities and take action • Identify the measures you will take and do it! • Identify and secure resources

  22. Fourth Phase: It Takes Everyone!Communicate Your Progress • Keep your community informed as you take actions • Promote involvement of your partners • Maintain support for your long-term initiatives

  23. Deerfield Beach, FL., A Disaster Resistant Community • Business Alliance meets to.… • Has relocated critical city services into one disaster-resistant building • Retrofitted school to serve as safe shelter • Developed residential home retrofitting program to withstand threat of hurricanes

  24. Where to Get HelpProject Impact Resources • Project ImpactGuidebook • Project Impact Brochure • Project Impact Overview and “Changing the Way America Deals with Disasters” Video • FEMA Technical Assistance • Local Project Impact Coordinator • Award Winning Website www.fema.gov • 1-800-480-2520 • Other Communities

  25. PROJECT IMPACT Changing the Way America Deals with Disasters

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