Valuable Resource Links and Organizations

Below will be some of the most useful and usable resources for those trying to learn more about Organizational Resiliency, Business Continuity Planning, Business Impact Planning as well as related issues. Please let us know if there are other sites you know about an believe would benefit our community. We would love to hear your thoughts.

Ready.gov
American Red Cross
Northern California Grantmakers Disaster Response
Association of Baltimore Area Grantmakers
The Nonprofit Roundtable of Greater Washington
USGS Hazard Program
New York University's International Center for Enterprise Preparedness
FEMA -- PS-PREP program
NFPA1600 Standard on Emergency Preparedness
Council on Foundations Preparedness Plan

For Organizational Resiliency, Business Continuity Planning, and Emergency Management

FEMA
FloridaDisaster.org
National Fire Incident Reporting System (NFIRS)
Continuity Central
Disaster Recovery Institute
The British Continuity Institute
The Institute for Business Continuity Training
FEMA: National Preparedness Directorate
DisasterSafety.org A program of IBHS
Get Prepared Canada: Is your family prepared?
Association of Contingency Planners
Northeast Disaster Recovery Information Exchange
ARMA International: Association of Records and Information Management
ASIS: Boston Chapter
Contingency Planning Exchange
Information Systems Security Association: New England Chapter
Disaster Resources
Department of Homeland Security
HQ: Temp office rentals
Contingency Planning and Management Conference and Expo
Bankers Online: Disaster Resources for the Banking sector
Continuity Insights Magazine Disaster Recovery Journal
Edwards Information yellow pages
Global Continuity Government Pandemic Flu website
Federal Reserve Bank Continuity Services
IT Governance Institute
OSHA
Bureau of Labor Statistics

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