We need “mom & pop” businesses to be disaster resistant
Small businesses, which are 99% of the US economy play a large part in any local economy’s ability to recover after a disaster. People need basic services, and basic services need people. A business that can resume services after a disaster helps the community to recover. Repeatedly, people will not return if a grocery store, hardware store and restaurants are not available but those stores can’t exist without a population to support them; some of the most visible cases of this is after Hurricanes Helene, Milton, Katrina, Sandy, Harvey and Maria, or the recent wildfires in Southern California.
Our organization’s educational materials, and specifically the DRB Toolkit®, enable businesses to re-open their doors sooner because they are prepared. In short, we support businesses and organizations – all of them – and the communities where they operate. But we cannot do this alone.