This document discusses challenges and strategies for building an emergency response network in New Orleans cultural heritage communities. It outlines existing resilience plans and organizations in New Orleans, including challenges of governance structure, data management, membership, and fundraising. Options are presented for centralized vs decentralized leadership structures and web integration of various applications. Next steps include writing a strategic plan, increasing the membership base in various cultural sectors, and fundraising for supplies, accounts, and web hosting to support the emergency response network.
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1. A Big Easy? New
Orleans, Cultural
Heritage Communities,
and Building a Network
for Emergency
Response
Jennifer Waxman and Eli Boyne
RMBS 2019
Baltimore, MD
June 21, 2019
3. Resilience and Sustainability
New Orleans Master Plan (adopted 2010, revised
2016-2018)
Resiliency Strategy (adopted 2015)
Hazard Mitigation Plan (updated every 5yrs, latest 2015)
Convening of Volunteer Organizations Active in Disaster
(VOAD) (2018)
4. New Orleans Master Plan
(adopted 2010, revised 2016-2018)
https://www.nola.gov/city-planning/master-plan/
6. New Orleans Of鍖ce of Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness: Hazard Mitigation
Plan (2005, revised every 5yrs)
Goal #4: Maximize the involvement of individuals, business, and
groups in risk reduction measures through education/outreach on
hazard mitigation appropriate to all groups, particularly vulnerable
populations.
Goal #5: Promote coordination locally, regionally, and nationally
including all levels of government, private sector entities, as well as
nonpro鍖ts and community based organizations.
Goal #6: Ensure continuity of operations for local government and
businesses, including protection of critical functions, records and
cultural assets.
https://www.nola.gov/hazard-mitigation/
7. New Orleans Of鍖ce of Homeland
Security and Emergency Preparedness
(NOHSEP)
NOPC attended a Hurricane
Tabletop exercise organized by
the New Orleans O鍖ce of
Homeland Security and
Emergency Preparedness (May
2019)
8. Challenges: establish a reliable response
network
inclusive governance structure
method to maintaining sensitive data
membership base across multiple sectors
fundraising
What do you need?
10. Challenges: data and web integration
Web integration--all the apps
Google Drive (free)
Mailchimp (free)
Eventbrite (free)
GoDaddy ($120/yr)
Squarespace ($216/yr)
Slack (free)
Stripe (2.9% + $.30 per successful charge)
Zapier (free)
Facebook (free)
Twitter (to come?)
Instagram (do we have to?!)
12. Challenges: membership sign-up 鍖elds
First Name
Last Name
Title or Occupation
Email
Phone
Membership Level
Institution/Business
Physical Address Line 1
Physical Address Line 2
Physical Address City
Physical Address State
Physical Address Zip Code
Physical Address Country
Mailing Address Line 1
Mailing Address Line 2
Mailing Address City
Mailing Address State
Mailing Address Zip Code
Mailing Address Country
A鍖liation or Institution/Business Info: For
individual memberships, please provide us
with more information about your a鍖liations.
For institutions, please provide us with more
information about your site. (Check boxes)
Other A鍖liation or Institution/Business Info:
Please add any other information related to
your a鍖liation or institution/business
Additional Properties or Sites Address Line 1:
Storage, performance, o鍖ce, etc.
Additional Properties or Sites Address Line 2
Additional Properties or Sites Address City
Additional Properties or Sites Address State
Additional Properties or Sites Address Zip
Code
Additional Properties or Sites Address
Country
Damage Assessment Info: For Institutional
membership, please add any information
about your organization, collections, and
buildings for damage assessment teams
First Name of Alternate Contacts
for Organization
Last Name of Alternate Contacts
for Organization
Alternate Contact Title
Alternate Contact Email
Alternate Contact Phone
Are you interested in joining the
NOAfR? For institutional
memberships only
13. Challenges: next steps
Write strategic plan
1-2 yr, 3-5 yr
Involve members in drafting
Fill committees to complete objectives
Increase membership base
Grassroots museums
Performing arts and arts businesses
First responders/emergency managers
Fundraising
Storage unit for emergency supply cache
(estimate $1200/yr)
Business checking account ($60/yr)
Web hosting and domain (+$250/yr)