inspired by CARD Can Help
Based on Alameda island, Collaborating Agencies Responding to Disasters is an award winning nonprofit dedicated to helping nonprofits, businesses, and service agencies. CARD can help:
- Move beyond fear, threat, and dis-empowering messages (such as Potty Posters)
- Become prepared and ready to respond at little cost
- Understand—in simple terms—the sometimes complex issues related to disaster response, terrorism, and government operations
- Feel secure in the knowledge that your community can carry on even after a disaster
- Meet public and private funder requirements of having a disaster plan in place
- Network and build stronger relations with other agencies and the emergency response community
- Empower your staff and volunteers to walk the world feeling safe and more prepared. Such as
- Community service providers: by offering empowering, cost-effective training that allows them to keep their consumers and staff safe, and understand how to keep their businesses open and operating after a disaster
- Special needs communities: by creating a safety net of their trained and trusted services agencies
- Government: by connecting all parts of our community for a united response
- Traditional emergency responders: by training the community to work in partnership with police, fire, Office of Emergency Services (OES), and other disaster service agencies
- Businesses: by strengthening the resilience of service providers such as childcare, eldercare, or other critical components of a strong, thriving business community
- Faith-based organizations: by helping them provide support, information and guidance to their congregants in times of disaster
- Foundations and corporate sponsors: by helping secure their investments in agencies and the vulnerable communities they support
- The general public: by creating an easy way for all people to fully participate in preparedness and response, in their own way