Floods and power outages are the two most common disasters to affect businesses. It’s easy to think of disasters as something that happens to somebody else.
Corporate Delegation Trip to Butte County, CA
The U.S. Chamber Foundation Corporate Citizenship Center (CCC)’s Disaster Preparedness, Response, and Recovery program will be hosting a delegation trip to Northern California on June 5 and 6. The delegation will meet with state recovery leaders as well as visit local communities affected by the 2018 Butte Fire.
Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about the recovery efforts underway and challenges moving forward, as well as identify areas where the private sector can partner with humanitarian organizations and local officials to help aid long-term recovery.
On a beautiful August night in 2014, a high-volume downtown pedestrian area in a popular Southern city was suddenly pitched into darkness.
Disasters are dangerous for business. We know how much your employees, customers, and community mean to you as a small business, so we’re here to assure you that you can do something about the danger disaster poses to your business.
For the third year, IBM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation are collaborating to encourage companies in their corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts by quantifying the brand value of CSR social media communications.
Coordination Call on the Venezuela Humanitarian Crisis
The pressing need for aid continues to grow for Venezuelans as the situation heightened along the border over the weekend. With more than three million Venezuelans outflowing to neighboring countries, including Colombia, this migration has become the largest to affect the Western Hemisphere in modern history. This migration has become the largest to affect the Western Hemisphere in modern history. Access to health care, education, food and nutrition, and safety and security begins the growing list of humanitarian aid needed.
The Impact of Disasters on Brand Sentiment
As the rate and impact of disasters grows, so has the response of the private sector to recover, rebuild, and make resilient. However, companies can struggle to communicate those efforts. New research by IBM and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation (USCCF) highlights the impact of disaster response communications on a brand's reputation and sentiment.
Day 35: The Real Economic Impact of the Government Shutdown
Real people are being hurt by the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. It’s been more than a month since millions of federal employees and contractors received their last paycheck, and there’s no end in sight.
8th Annual Building Resilience through Private-Public Partnerships Conference
Register today! The 8th Annual Building Resilience through Private-Public Partnerships (PPP) Conference will take place July 23 and 24 in Washington, D.C.
All disasters are local. To support a community’s ability to react and recover quickly, we must improve the overall resilience of individuals, businesses, and communities. To that end, it is not only building their individual capacity towards resilience, but the intersections needed to protect the whole community.
Coordination Webinar for California Wildfires and Other Long-Term Disaster Recovery
The deadliest and most destructive wildfires in California’s history have displaced thousands. With more than 250,000 acres burned and the fires still not fully contained, the U.S.