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FEMA Announces 2012 Community Resilience Innovation Challenge

posted Sep 27, 2012, 11:37 AM by Samara Ebinger

FEMA has announced that the application period is open for a new funding opportunity to build local resilience, through a Whole Community approach, in communities across America: the Community Resilience Innovation Challenge. This new monetary opportunity is designed to continue to move community preparedness forward and assist local areas in building and revitalizing community-based partnerships to advance the nation’s resilience to disasters.

“The best resiliency ideas originate in our states and communities – not from Washington, DC,” said FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate. “The goal of this program is to empower communities to collaborate and develop innovative ways to effectively respond to disasters.”

Community Resilience Collaborative

Wednesday, November 21^st 2013 6:00 PM

At

Congregation AAA Sfard

1385 E 94th St, Brooklyn, NY 11236

(Bet. Avenue K & L)

(718) 272-6933

The Case for Collaboration and Community Engagement as Cornerstones for Community Resilience Planning:

 

The goal is to help to empower our community to collaborate and to build strong community based partnerships to find innovative ways to effectively respond to disasters, to rebuild economically stable and resilient communities that are environmentally practical and responsible.

 

Strong, sustainable communities are possible when stakeholders are informed and engaged in the planning process. This meeting, is part of a series of Resilience Meetings we hope to have in order to facilitate and support honest, open community dialogue to articulate our problems, to brainstorm, to network and to discuss and to hopefully find sustainable solutions that can be implemented. 

Benefit cuts to food stamp recipients kick in Friday, a move by Congress that will siphon $5 billion off a program that helps one in seven Americans put breakfast, lunch and dinner on the table.

As president of the Food Bank for New York City, Margaret Purvis expects those cuts will draw even more people to organizations that already provide 400,000 meals a day to hungry city folks.

"Our members are panicking," she said as time wound down before the benefit decreases go into effect. "We're telling everyone to make sure that you are prepared for longer lines."

Needy Americans who receive food stamps through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program are expected to suffer an average loss of $36 a month from a $275.13 per household benefit. There are a near-record 47.6 million Americans, representing 23.1 million households, on the program. The cost of the program will hit $63.4 billion in 2013.

SNAP allocations built into President Barack Obama’s 2009 stimulus bill are coming to an end, leading to the cuts. Over the past few years, a bipartisan group of Democrats and Republicans have voted in favor of the cuts in exchange for increased education funding and school nutrition programs.

Canarsie Healing Center & EcoVillage - Community Resilience Pilot Initiative

Canarsie Eco Village & Natural Healing Center is one proposed initiative from the community as part of an encompassing plan for the future of Canarsie. Said local Rabbi Yosef Serebryanski or Rabbi Yossi, as he is fondly called by everyone " An eco-community can be an integral sustaining power for Canarsie to weather any future storms, natural or man-made.It is important for any group of people living together to have clean water and food during any disaster. If it is freely available then it also means there is no need for rioting, pillaging or mayhem as it allows people to continue to co-exist peacefully."