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Commercial District Emergency Preparedness

Program Partners

  • NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS)
  • Subrecipients: To be determined

Program Description

After disasters, community-based development organizations (CBDOs) are often on the front lines, helping to coordinate emergency relief to impacted small businesses. With CDBG-DR funds, SBS will provide technical assistance to CBDOs to implement disaster preparedness measures to enhance organizations’ abilities to effectively support economic recovery in their communities following disasters. Technical assistance may include business outreach plans, crisis communication, post-disaster planning preparation, and best practices on engaging businesses for disaster preparation.

CBDOs also require additional support post-disaster as they are not only serving as a critical link between businesses and local emergency relief but recovering their own internal operations. As such, CBDOs will also receive assistance creating and implementing internal business continuity plans to ensure they can adequately respond to post-disaster community needs with reduced interruption to their operations.

It is anticipated that 25-30 organizations will participate in workshops, individual consultations, and other engagements over the three-year program.