97.053: Citizens-Community Resilience Innovation Challenge

97.053

Inactive

Department of Homeland Security (DHS)

Sept. 18, 2015

Aug. 30, 2014

To bring together government, community leaders, non-profit organizations, and citizens to enhance community resilience for all-hazards emergency events. The Community Resilience Innovation Challenge program seeks to foster a culture of community resilience by identifying needs, mobilizing partners, and creating innovative, motivating, and effective solutions that can be grown, sustained, and replicated. FEMA seeks to spark the dramatic expansion and transformation of current community engagement strategies in the field of emergency management, promoting approaches that take direct steps to put local residents in leadership roles in planning, organizing, and sharing accountability for the success of local disaster management-related projects and programs. FEMA’s approach draws inspiration and direction from community policing as a philosophy of how local law enforcement institutions work with residents to identify local priorities, share information and cooperate in decisions about operational directions. The program will make communities safer, stronger, and better prepared to respond to threats of terrorism, crime, public health issues, and disasters of all kinds.

B - Project Grants

Non-profit organizations with 501(c)(3) status which possess an established expertise in, and an ability to identify and encourage collaborative relationships within and across all major sectors (business, academic, faith-based, tribal, government, non-profit, associations and community stakeholder groups) for the purpose of enhancing community resilience to major disaster events.

The program will benefit non-profit organizations which are engaged in promoting emergency preparedness and community resilience to disasters affecting the citizens of the communities in which they are located.

97.008 - Non-Profit Security Program

97.042 - Emergency Management Performance Grants